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Artifact and Relic Recovery. Buy from Amazon here. If you'd like a personalized copy email me here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. My Author's Amazon Page. Old Virginia Diggers' YouTube Film Shorts. National Civil War Chaplains Museum. Virginia Canals and Navigations Society. I love your blog and read it every day.". Historian Kent Masterson Brown. Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation. Handpicke...
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Old Virginia Blog: Lest We Forget
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Artifact and Relic Recovery. As I read the ongoing nonsense taking place on so many so-called "Civil War blogs", I keep coming back to recent comments (and some not so recent) regarding the current, faddish (and rather juvenile) trends in academia and historiography. I know I've posted these quotes a number of times, but they are worth repeating a number of times. These "Civil War" blogs have become so obsessed and pop-culture-like. Professor Gordon S. Wood. And more from Wood:. I believe that somewhere,...
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Old Virginia Blog: Must Reads
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Artifact and Relic Recovery. The *links below will take you to articles (and/or posts here), that I believe are must reads for readers of this blog. These articles will further clarify my perspective, worldview and approach to history as a writer. These links and articles will also present something much different from the rigid conformity of thought and "groupthink" perspective you will read on most Civil War and history related blogs. My Myth or Yours? By Professor Clyde Wilson. Pretty much puts to res...
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Old Virginia Blog: William Bradford & America’s (First) Failed Flirtation with Socialism
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Artifact and Relic Recovery. William Bradford and America’s (First) Failed Flirtation with Socialism. Both state and federal governments in the. Ought to take a very simple lesson from. S first failed experiment with socialism. The Pilgrims are generally credited with starting the Thanksgiving tradition ( actually, the first Thanksgiving was in. What many people forget to attribute to them, however, are business and political practices that would've set. S future on a much different path. S grandparents,...
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Old Virginia Blog: Historical Context Is Out - Teddy Bears Are In
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Artifact and Relic Recovery. Historical Context Is Out - Teddy Bears Are In. Image and info source here. But will bears everywhere protest being associated with the bad boys of the CSA? Yes, this is satire. But probably not far from reality at some point in the future - assuming the activist historian crowd keeps getting their way. Hat tip to Robert Moore. Richard G. Williams, Jr. Dear Old Dom.,. Now the Chicago Bears will have to change their name! 07 August, 2015 09:30. Richard G. Williams, Jr. You are...
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Old Virginia Blog: Relic Hunting Post #130 - A Prince Edward Island Penny
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Artifact and Relic Recovery. Relic Hunting Post #130 - A Prince Edward Island Penny. Not expecting much, I scanned the same spot and he did, in fact, have a promising signal. Helping him carefully remove about 5 inches of dirt, he reached in the hole and grabbed a beautiful 1871 Prince Edward Island. PEI is one Canada's maritime provinces and this province issued it's own coinage for a short time. 1871 was the only year PEI issued this coin. Coins and Canada website. Note for those interested. Thank you ...
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Old Virginia Blog: Of God & Pirates
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Artifact and Relic Recovery. Of God and Pirates. Besides revisiting Shelby Foote's Civil War narrative, I also started reading Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship. Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." Mark Twain. The book was just released last month. Great summer reading. Author's website. If time allows and I catch up other promised reviews, I'll do a complete review once I've finished reading it.
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Old Virginia Blog: Historians as Moral Reformers, "Cheap Politicized Moralizing" & The Adults in the Room
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Artifact and Relic Recovery. Historians as Moral Reformers, "Cheap Politicized Moralizing" and The Adults in the Room. Well it's been an eventful summer, hasn't it? Agitators are ignoring the elephant in the room, Margaret Sanger. And her legacy, isn't it? More on that in a moment.). Fortunately, this week has brought some. Relief to know that there are still a few adults left in the room. First of all, I saw the announcement. That the Jeff Davis statue will remain in the Kentucky state Capitol:. As I've...
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Old Virginia Blog: Virtus
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Artifact and Relic Recovery. A specific virtue in Ancient Rome. It carries connotations of valor, manliness, excellence, courage, character, and worth, perceived as masculine strengths . Buffalo Jackson Tra ding Company. We aren’t creating social experiments in gender. Our test is simple… 'Would our grandfather be proud to wear it? It’s time the rugged gentleman staged a comeback.". The Art of Manliness. The Society of the Cincin n. Hereditary members of the Society of the Cincinnati are qualified male d...
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