As we slide into 2023, Katie and I usually like to offer a review of our popular posts from the year prior. Unfortunately, 2022 proved to be a very quiet year for our Civil Discourse endeavors! We’re hoping to offer more content in 2023…
Read MoreDespite a slow year here at Civil Discourse, we’d nevertheless like to share our top three posts of 2021!
Read MoreCounting down the top ten posts of 2020: 6-10!
Read MoreCounting down the top ten posts of 2018! Here is our #1 post for the year!
Read MoreIt's a new year, which means (after a undeniable autumnal hiatus) a fresh round of Civil Discourse posts rests just around the corner. Yet it's also an opportune time to look back at pieces that have resonated with our readers over the past year, several of which caused quite a stir. Without further ado, here are the five most popular Civil Discourse posts of 2017!
Read MoreWe're approaching a new year and Civil Discourse's second anniversary in 2017! As we did last year, we're finishing 2016 with a look back at the year's top ten posts. These popular pieces not only shed light on the Civil War but also allow us to understand the conflict from new perspectives. Without further ado, we begin our top ten countdown with posts six through ten!
Read MoreThe Society of Civil War Historians hosts their biennial conference in historic Chattanooga, Tennessee this week, and starting Thursday (June 2), Civil War historians from around the country will converge on Chattanooga to "talk shop," if you will. This includes Civil Discourse's Katie Thompson, Zac Cowsert, and Chuck Welsko, and we hope to bring you all with us as we poke around Chickamauga, take ourselves to the cutting edge of scholarship, present our own research, and generally have a damn good time in Tennessee.
Read MoreAlong with the usual celebration and excitement that accompanies the New Year, we at Civil Discourse enjoyed the added bonus of reaching the one-year mark on our little blogging venture! It is a great milestone, and it's worth taking a moment to look back and see both what we've accomplished and what we'd like to achieve in the coming year.
Read MoreAs we begin the annual countdown to New Year's Day (and Civil Discourse's one-year anniversary!), let's finish our own countdown of the blog's post popular posts of 2015. Earlier this week we cracked the top ten, so today let's finish off 2015 by looking at our top five posts of the year!
Read MoreAs we approach Civil Discourse's one-year anniversary, we thought the time was right to look back on our inaugural year and countdown our top ten posts of 2015! These popular pieces not only shed light on the Civil War but also allowed us to understand the conflict from new perspectives. Without further ado, we begin our top ten countdown with posts six through ten! Lookout for our top five posts in the coming days!
Read MoreThe 150th anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox is less than a month away.
If you have spent any time around a battlefield or related Civil War historic sites, you have probably heard people musing about what these commemorative landscapes will look like after the sesquicentennial closes. In short, many (most) people presume: they won’t look like much. Even die-hard Civil War buffs are predicting a sharp decline in visitation, interest, and enthusiasm once Appomattox passes.
I find that deeply troubling.
Read MoreTo honor Lincoln's birthday this Thursday (February 12), we will be spotlighting his presidency and leadership during the Civil War. Check back all this week for our authors' perspectives on Lincoln!
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