Vast Public Indifference

I usually walk right by the 19th-century monuments in old graveyards, but this one caught my eye. Corporal Walter Standish of the 14th Co...

The New York Times is running a five-part feature on Sgt. Amos Humiston, a New York soldier who was killed at Gettysburg. Humiston's re...

Most people don't know that General Philippe Régis de Trobriand was a yeti. These people have not yet played Yetisburg . In other new...

Pete and I play a lot of board/card games in the evenings when I'm not up to my eyeballs in work. When I'm done with my current crop...

In addition to their style and their dedicators’ stated intentions, the location of monuments is important for interpreting their meaning. T...

The style and form of the Confederate monuments at Gettysburg speak eloquently to their role in advancing the mythology of the Lost Cause. Y...

While Union veterans in attendance at the 1913 reunion could retrace their regiments’ steps by visiting the granite and bronze monuments tha...

By the time of the 1913 reunion, the Union half of the commemorative landscape at Gettysburg was already established in the form that exists...

On a clear June day in 1917, Confederate veteran Leigh Robinson looked out across the fields of Gettysburg and addressed over 2,000 of his f...

I recently finished a research paper on the Confederate monumental landscape at Gettysburg. I enjoyed writing it and my professor was encour...

I am generally a pretty cynical person, but there are some stories that are just so pathetic that you can't help but get drawn into the ...

Yesterday, Professor O'Donovan spoke on the subject of memorialization in the decades after the Civil War with particular attention to p...