Susannah Ural received her Ph.D. from Kansas State University, where her dissertation morphed into her first book, The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865. She’s now researching her next book, Hood’s Texans, to be published by Louisiana State University Press. Ural, who teaches at the University of Southern Mississippi and …
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Cleveland Reopens War Monument One of the nation’s most elaborate Civil War memorials recently re opened after a $2 million, two-year restoration. The 1894 Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, a granite and sandstone tower teeming with military symbolism that rises 125 feet above Public Square in downtown Cleveland, had long ago lost its luster inside and …
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Marking Confederate History Month I read “The Proclamation and the Peculiar Institution” in the August 2010 issue with interest. The editorial decision to have scholarly contributors react to Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell’s Proclamation was well taken and interesting. While I agree implicitly with Michael Fellman’s sentiment, I take umbrage with his statement “the Lost Cause …
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