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Tuesday in Mooseville – More Lost Cause Myths We Still Haven’t Busted 9/24/19

September 24, 2019 DoReMI 1

Last week, we looked at two of the four key Lost Cause myths identified by James Loewen and Edward Sebesta in The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” about the “Lost Cause”. This week, […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Six Minutes of History 8/13/19

August 13, 2019 DoReMI 1

Words are superfluous. Field of Vision – A Night at the Garden from Field of Vision on Vimeo. For those wanting more information, an interview with the filmmaker is here: A Night at the Garden. […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Slaveholders-in-Chief Cont’d 2/19/19

February 19, 2019 DoReMI 4

After Denise’s tour-de-force of a post on Sunday (if you haven’t already, be sure to read it here: I refuse to honor George Washington, and ‘founders’ who enslaved and sold human beings ), my efforts […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Primary Sources The Game: Who Said It? 12/11/18

December 11, 2018 DoReMI 5

I’m leaving Friday morning for our long holiday weekend with The Kiddo and SIL, and that’s where my head is at (and has been for at least a week). So instead of doing a deep […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Primary Sources: William Howard Russell On the Civil War (Finally, Final!) 11/27/18

November 27, 2018 DoReMI 2

Reading the last four letters reprinted by Project Gutenberg (The Civil War in America, by William Howard Russell) was a soul-draining, but necessary, reminder that this is indeed who we are. What these letters show […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Primary Sources: William Howard Russell On the Civil War (2nd of 3) 11/20/18

November 20, 2018 DoReMI 3

I’m continuing with William Howard Russell’s dispatches to the London Times, written as he visited the United States at the beginning of the Civil War. Before I return to his reports, I want to share […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Primary Sources: William Howard Russell On the Civil War 11/13/18

November 13, 2018 DoReMI 5

I had never heard of William Howard Russell before reading Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South by Christopher Dickey (h/t basket and janesaunt for the book recommendation). Russell is […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – A Year At a Glance: 1927, Sears Edition 11/6/18

November 6, 2018 DoReMI 5

I figure we’re all going to have the attention span of a fruit fly today (What Animal Has the Shortest Attention Span? ), so I decided to do a light, but [hopefully] fun revisit of […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – A Year at a Glance: 1908, Sears Version 10/23/18

October 23, 2018 DoReMI 8

I am a firm believer that too many history textbooks focus on dates and Big Events like wars, while giving scant coverage to the daily lives of the people who are living in and through […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Primary Sources: Edward Ross and Race Suicide 10/9/18

October 9, 2018 DoReMI 3

I had strongly considered backing off from difficult topics for awhile, in deference to the difficult past few weeks. But then I saw this tweet by one of my favorite Twitter-follows: Typical behavior of a […]

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