From Gettysburg to Minneapolis: How the American Civil War continues to shape how we understand contemporary political conflicts and their dangers As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for metaphors.

Minneapolis is Gettysburg? Tim Walz is Jeff Davis?

See our brief piece in The Conversation on why folks use the Civil War to make sense of current events.

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Cover art for our volume “They Are Dead and Yet The Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America” to be published in February with Nebraska Press!

My base renaming chapter for the “Civil War Memories in A Polarized America” volume keeps getting a new — and unnecessary— ending.

Thanks for listening to this episode and for the shout-out to my Meade work!

The Antietam Memorial Illumination is a somber spectacle. Seeing the battlefield landscape covered with 23,000 luminaries to honor the battle’s casualties gives a powerful visual illustration to the deadliest day in our nation’s history.

Calling all history teachers. This is a great opportunity to work with some excellent Civil War scholars @naucivilwar.bsky.social at the University of Virginia next summer. 🗃️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...