I was going to take some students in my Civil War America course to Gettysburg this weekend. They were excited about going to the cemetery and reading the Gettysburg Address on November 19, the day it was delivered by Lincoln...
Here is Kevin Levin at The Atlantic: On May 29, 1890, roughly 150,000 people gathered for the dedication of the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond. It was an opportunity to celebrate a man who many believed embodied the virtues of...
Historians on Twitter have caught the attention of The New Yorker. Check out Lizzie Widdicombe’s piece “The Twitterstorians Trying to De-Trumpify U.S. History.” It covers a Twitterstorians reception at the recent meeting of the American Historical Association in New York...
Check out Alex Green’s piece at Publishers Weekly. The writers group, known as “The Squad,” includes historians Kevin Levin, Liz Covart, Sara Georgini, Megan Kate Nelson, Heather Cox Richardson, and Nina Silber. (Covart and Georgini have been guests on the The...
Kevin Levin raises an interesting point. In a recent talk a member of the audience asked him if it was possible to honor Robert E. Lee with a monument for his work as president of Washington and Lee University. Here...
Kevin Levin is a historian, educator, and the proprietor of the popular Civil War Memory blog. This interview is based on his new edited collection, Interpreting the Civil War at Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017). JF: What led you...
Over at Civil War Memory, Kevin Levin reflects on Confederate Civil War reenactors in a post-New Orleans, post-Charlottesville world. Here is a taste: It should come as no surprise that reenactors who don Confederate gray and display the Confederate battle...
Over at Smithsonian.com, Kevin Levin, the proprietor of the excellent blog “Civil War Memory,” gives us a history lesson on historical markers. Some of you may recall that it was a Levin blog post that triggered our recent post “Is...
Over at Civil War Memory, Kevin Levin discusses a fascinating story about Jimmy Carter and the Lost Cause. It will be published in a chapter in his forthcoming edited collection, Interpreting the Civil War at Museums and Historic Sites. The story...
Kevin Levin of Civil War Memory found this on You Tube. Here is what he writes: Check out this short video of a Civil War centennial parade in Jackson, Mississippi in March 1961. There is no shortage of Confederate flags....
Kevin Levin, a secondary school teacher, Civil War scholar, and author of the Civil War Memory blog, sat down with fellow historian Megan Kate Nelson to talk about his experience teaching the American Studies Seminar at the American Antiquarian Society....
When I think of Civil War buffs I think of middle-aged white men–the kind of men who go to Civil War roundtables, tour battlefields, and read books about generals. Does the same thing apply to Civil War scholarship? Perhaps....
