The first U.S. Navy surface ship powered by electric motors was the USS Jupiter.She was later converted into the first aircraft carrier (see image below) and renamed the USS Langley.According to MIT&...
NEXT COURSE: I have just signed up for my next class, History of Sea Power which starts January 3rd. We’re allowed one elective in my program and, given my research interests in the naval histo...
I’m always on the hunt for something new in Civil War exhibitions. The good folks at the National Archives and Records Administration have produced a brief video about their exhibition, “...
I was very pleased to receive a review copy of Gregory H. Wolk’s new book, A Tour Guide to Missouri’s Civil War: Friend and Foe Alike. This is a book that can be enjoyed by Civil War enth...
Bill Gates Predicts Technology Will Make ‘Place-Based’ Colleges Less Important in 5 Years – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Couldn’t agree more.
Hardcover August 2010 ISBN 978-0-393-06039-3 6.5 × 9.5 in / 336 pages The good folks at W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. sent me a pre-release copy of Elizabeth D. Leonard’s new book, Men of Co...
I was recently contacted by a group of history educators in Pennsylvania about The Civil War Augmented Reality Project. The team (see below or the “about” link for members) has provided t...
I’m narrowing down my thesis topic. I plan to examine the Civil War experience of those who enlisted in the navy under the rank of “Boy” including 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class who were u...
I am adding NARAtions to my blogroll along with other sites that help me with my research. I’m sure this won’t be news to many of you but NARAtions is, as my article title suggests, the ...
Abraham Photo source: idahohumanities.org Primary sources are gold for this emerging historian. An assignment for my Historical Research Methods class led me to Terry Abraham‘s Repositories of ...
Historical Research Methods started Monday. I have my virtual pencils sharpened, Moleskine in hand, and course books on my shelves. There is a GREAT group of students in the class from a variety of...
Welcome to the May 2010 edition of the Military History Carnival featuring some of the best recent military history from around the web. This is the first time that WigWags has hosted and it’s ...
The American Military University (AMU) and the Weider History Group will be presenting a series of live webcasts on the Civil War that look promising. I’m excited to see this line up and think ...
"Mary Walker (1832 – 1919) was the Army's first female surgeon during the Civil War, but led an altogether storied life as an early American abolitionist, feminist, and doctor. In 1864, she ...
Up next…Historical Research Methods. Course Description: The course addresses the development of core research skills for advanced historical study. Through case studies analyses, the evaluatio...
Kings of War is a new addition to my blogroll and a great one. Bloggers include “faculty and research students of the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.”Included amon...
Duel of the USS Essex and HMS Pheobe Civil War hero and admiral David Farragut literally grew up at sea. In the U.S. Navy since the age of ten, he served under David Porter as a midshipman beginning ...
I’ve found some new colleagues in the military history blogosphere this week that I’ll be featuring over the next few days. First up, TJ Linzy who blogs as Battlefield Biker. Among other...
David Glasgow Farragut, the many who would become the first Admiral in the U.S. Navy and a Civil War naval hero, was born on the fifth of July 1801 “in a log cabin on a 640-acre tract of land o...
I’m wrapping up my paper on Civil War Admiral David Farragut’s command of the Battle of Mobile Bay. This guy was impressive. To begin with, he came from good stock. This quote is his son ...
A group of individuals has a new concept for a museum themed around the experience of Americans during wartime. I ran across their site recently and found the mission statement and approach outlined ...
I’m always please to see a new voice enter the “history” blogosphere. Jared Wasser has opened up shop over at Boatswains and Bacteremia and as a maritime history geek myself, I coul...
Now here is something not to miss. “Discovering the Civil War Online” is the title of a unique webinar that will feature Steven E. Woodworth, professor and award-winning Civil War author; and Tom Dac...
Oxford University Press is running it’s Spring book sale and there are some deals to be had. My pick is Antietam: The Soldiers’ Battle by John M. Priest which is $50% off. This beats the...
Seth Grahame-Smith This may well be the most unusual book I’ll review on Wig-Wags. The good folks at Grand Central Publishing recently sent me an advance review copy of New York Times best sel...
Imoved most of my historical society links over to Wig-Wags.com today from my old blog site. You’ll find them in the right nav bar of Wig-Wags.com by following down the page a bit. I’m us...
Fascinated by all that drove public opinion during the nineteenth century, I recently acquired an excellent book: Conrad Wise Chapman: Artist Soldier of the Confederacy (The Kent State University Pr...
Continuing from the post Death and Injury on the Battlefield Part I here, this post deals with battlefield injuries. Confederate Wounded at Smith’s Barn with Dr Anson Hurd 14th Indiana Volunteers in ...
JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR. Partners In Command: The Relationships Between Leaders in the Civil War New York: The Free Press . 1994. Pp. xi, 286. $16.95. Warriors are at their core human beings who succeed ...
I previously posted a piece on the impact of disease on soldiers in the Civil War [see "The American Civil War Experience: Lice, Disease and Quinine" ]. The following discusses the other side of deat...
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