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Articles by Matthew Hulbert
The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnson and the Civil War in the West
Publisher Louisiana State University Press Recommended Citation Hulbert, Matthew (2025) "The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnson and the Civil War in the West," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 26 : Iss. 4 . Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol26/iss4/5
Fall 2024 Archives
Skip to content Vol. 14, No. 3 Features Robert E. Lee’s Unwritten History Grant and Sherman did it. Hood and Longstreet and Johnston too. So why didn’t the Confederacy’s greatest general write a memoir of the war? By Stephen Cushman The Bloodiest Day How rank-and-file troops experienced the Battle of Antietam By D. Scott Hartwig The Zouave By 1861, Elmer Ellsworth had become a household name in much of America. How a friendship with Abraham Lincoln helped propel him to prominence. By Lesley J.
Spring 2024 - Civil War Monitor
Features Partners in War Meet the wives of the Civil War’s top commanders The Man Who Broke the Klan How U.S. Army officer and Civil War veteran Lewis Merrill took on—and routed—the Ku Klux Klan in postwar South Carolina By Fergus M.
Colt and Browning, The Gunsmiths Who Made America: A Review Essay
Recommended Citation Hulbert, Matthew Christopher. "Colt and Browning, The Gunsmiths Who Made America: A Review Essay." New Mexico Historical Review 98, 2 (2023). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr/vol98/iss2/3
The Top Five Civil War Biographies
It may seem a cliche to preface my Top Five articles with the disclaimer that the subject cannot possibly be done justice by so few recommendations. Then I cheat and add topical or geographical frameworks to make the selections manageable. Biography being perhaps more enormous than any other genre, it is a foregone conclusion that many, many truly outstanding books will be left off such a short list. Biographies that fall under the Civil War heading generally speaking run the full gamut.
Playing at War
Description Press Kit Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture.
A New Way of Seeing
Description Praise Press Kit A New Way of Seeing considers the poetry of five writers—Louis Simpson, Keith Douglas, Richard Hugo, Howard Nemerov, and Randall Jarrell—whose work draws on their activities as soldiers in World War II. Basing his examination on extensive primary-source research, Michael Sarnowski identifies distance, both literal and figurative, and traumatic memory as two interconnected elements of how these poets internalized the war and made sense of the events they witnessed.
The Five Best Books on the Civil War in the (Far) West
On the first day of my American West in History and Film class, I ask students to explain where the historical West of their imaginations is located, when it existed, and what characteristics make it distinctly “western.” As the discussion progresses, it gradually becomes clear that, though each of them assumes their version is the West, we all have different ideas about the American West, be it a geographical place or an imagined one. It is not much different among historians of the Civil War.
The Five Best Books on Civil War Memory
Library of Congress Union and Confederate veterans shake hands at the reunion to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. In his 1948 novelIntruder in the Dust, William Faulkner famously describes a Mississippi boy playing soldier—pretending to be the entire Rebel army, as it were—in the minutes preceding the disastrous Pickett-Pettigrew assault at the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Five Best Books on Civil War Guerrillas
Library of Congress Two guerrillas stop a civilian rider to rob him in this sketch from a December 1864 issue of Harper's Weekly. “This Mr. Wales is acold-blooded killer. He’s from Missouri where they’re all known to be killers of innocent men, women, and children.” That line from Clint Eastwood’s iconic 1976 film, The Outlaw Josey Wales, reflected—and in some cases still reflects—the three most enduring misconceptions about Civil War guerrillas.
Issue 41
FEATURES Rethinking Robert E. Lee He was lauded as the Confederacy's best general, a commander of mythic status. The truth is more complicated. By Allen C. Guelzo The Union Forever! How the concept of Union was vital to loyal citizens' understanding of the Civil War—and why it should remain so today. By Andrew F. Lang Treason in Our Midst In the war's immediate aftermath, many border state residents were unwilling to forgive the actions of returning neighbors who had served in the Confederate army.
The Razor’s Edge of Borderland Politics: Edward M. Samuel and the Liberty Bank Robbery
by Matthew C. Hulbert In 1860, Edward M. Samuel, 53, was a respected businessman and the president of a successful bank in Liberty, Missouri. He claimed $30,000 of real estate in several different counties and boasted a personal net worth of $20,000 (roughly equivalent to $580,000 in 2015 currency per the CPI).
The Lawrence Massacre
On April 20, 1866, a letter addressed to James Knox arrived in Chesterfield, S.C. Robert E. Lee had surrendered his once-mighty Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant more than a year prior — but the blood of R. H. Miller, the man who had sent the letter from his home in Lawrence, Kans., was still up. Miller outlined a general list of grievances against the ex-Confederacy and then quickly turned to the real subject of his letter: the Lawrence Massacre of Aug. 21, 1863.
Roundup Top 10!
by Christine Crudo Blackburn, Gerald W. Parker and Morten Wendelbo By disproportionately affecting young men, the virus, in combination with World War I, created a shortage of labor – filled by women.
Gun-rights advocates are right that violent films encourage school shootings. They’re wrong about how.
Matthew Christopher Hulbert teaches history at the University of Georgia. ... Today’s gun-laden movies can trace their roots to the films of the late 1960s and early ’70s, when already violent westerns and crime dramas gave way to a darker brand of American cinema. In 1967, “Bonnie and Clyde” featured a bullet-riddled ending unlike anything moviegoers had seen before. A year later the movie “Targets” followed a mentally ill sniper on a killing rampage.
Commentary: Gun-rights advocates are right that violent films encourage school shootings. They’re wrong about how.
A nameless man with a cigar wedged in the corner of his jaw approaches a group of armed toughs who are dumbstruck by his bravado. He flips back his poncho and draws a revolver. In the blink of an eye, the street is left festooned with corpses. Holstering his weapon, the stranger casually strolls from the scene; a new, playful riff in the soundtrack indicates that justice has been served.
Wonder what every American carrying a gun would be like? Look to Civil War days
On Sunday, a lone gunman entered the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. He opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle and claimed more than two dozen victims, male and female, ranging from 17 months to 72 years old. Myriad commentators on social media and cable news have suggested that a better-armed congregation might have prevented the assault. Or, that the only remedy for an epidemic of gun violence is for every potential victim to pick up a weapon.
Egypt and the Global Oil Market: Geopolitics Is Back - The Globalist
If any further evidence were required that we are back in a bull oil market, then Egypt has done the trick. Benchmark prices surpassed $100 per barrel directly on the back of political turmoil in Cairo. This is not because Egypt sits on much oil, but because its Suez Canal is a crucial transit route for getting Middle Eastern oil to global markets, and because it is home to the Sumed pipeline linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
Civil War-era Missouri teaches us about fighting guerrilla wars | The Kansas City Star
On Aug. 21, 1863, William Clarke Quantrill and several hundred Missouri bushwhackers rode into the abolitionist stronghold of Lawrence. Hell had come to breakfast. Quantrill’s men burned huge swaths of the town and left nearly 200 men and boys dead in their wake. The Lawrence Massacre, as the raid was quickly dubbed, made national headlines. It transformed Quantrill into the chief of all guerrilla chieftains. And it prompted Union Gen. Thomas Ewing to issue General Order No. 11.
Mental Health and Criminal Justice in Civil War Kentucky
The Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWG-K) is a cutting-edge digital humanities project dedicated to imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing documents related to Kentucky’s five Civil War governors and making them accessible/searchable online (free of charge) to researchers and the general public alike.
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Gazprom: Beyond The Point Of Commercial Return
Gazprom’s fight back has begun. President Putin has made crystal clear to the European Union that he considers Gazprom to be a strategic asset of the Russian state over the anti-trust case accusing them of monopolistic practices. You know it’s ‘serious’ when Mr. Putin signs a decree telling everyone so: Messy legal arguments simply don’t apply when it comes to prized Russian assets.
America Will Deeply Regret Its Fixation On Energy Independence
This article is more than 10 years old. The U.S. energy independence debate is getting very tetchy of late. Seasoned energy experts are trading cheap blows, principally for sitting on opposite sides of the fence. Nobody doubts that U.S. energy output will keep growing, but whether it ever amounts to full ‘independence’ is at best tenuous. More importantly, it spells total disaster for America’s role in the world. No global oil role, forget being a global hyper power. Those days will be gone.
Schmutzdecke Characterization of Clinoptilolite‐Amended Slow Sand Filtration
References 1 & Slow Sand Filtration. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (1974), 2 Fundamentals of Filtration. Proc. of the International Symposium on Water Filtration. European Fed. of Chemical Engineering, Koninklijke Valaamse Ingenieursvereniging, Antwerp, Belgium (1982). 3; ; & Reovirus Removal and Inactivation by Slow Rate Sand Filtration. Jour. Appl. & Envir. Microbiol., 48:4: 818 (Oct. 1984). 4 et al. Filtration Kinetics in Water and Wastewater. First Annual Prog. Rept. (FWQA Grant 17030 EGA).
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