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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 7h

"No More 'Flags Of Truce' With the Fiendish Scoundrels" 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

"No More 'Flags Of Truce' With the Fiendish Scoundrels

How one Confederate officer responded to Abraham Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 7h

"No More 'Flags Of Truce' With the Fiendish Scoundrels" 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

"No More 'Flags Of Truce' With the Fiendish Scoundrels

How one Confederate officer responded to Abraham Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

open.substack.com

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 10h

He tolerates it.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 10h

Otis behind bars getting a bath.

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 15h

Here it is, my 245th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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#ScholarSunday Thread 245 (10/12/25) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 245th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments below, please share widely, & en...

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 1d

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle
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Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle

A new movie is being filmed in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania this weekend about the famous battle.

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 1d

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction reenacted at Colonial Williamsburg.

Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting.

This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.

What Is Colonial Williamsburg For?

Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday read abt how Early Republic SCn's downplayed Independence Day so enslaved people wouldn't get any ideas & played up Palmetto Day (June 28) instead. It's still this way (My exhibit opens June 28 for a reason).

This whiteness was intentional and will remain so until we face this fact.

Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 1d

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle

A new movie is being filmed in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania this weekend about the famous battle.

open.substack.com

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 1d

OK. LOL

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 1d

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle

A new movie is being filmed in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania this weekend about the famous battle.

open.substack.com

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 1d

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle

A new movie is being filmed in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania this weekend about the famous battle.

open.substack.com

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 2d

I am all for making a movie about a family displaced by the fighting in and around Gettysburg. Only, how about making it about one of the many Black families that were forced to flee their homes or were kidnapped and terrorized by invading Confederates. www.abc27.com/gettysburg/m...

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like Trump finally got what he always wanted.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 2d

Because nothing is more appropriate at the entrance of Arlington National Cemetery than a massive and obscene triumphal arch.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

it's giving Germania

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 2d

Every new home construction is essentially the same open layout concept, gray walls, and zero character.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 3d

Teaching was such fun today.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 3d

"When Americans debate terrorism, they rarely place Robert E. Lee in the same category as groups like Hamas or Al-Qaeda."

Right, because that would be pretty stupid. www.milwaukeeindependent.com/editorial/co...

A Confederacy built on slavery shows Robert E. Lee’s battles were efforts to preserve a regime of terror | Milwaukee Independent

www.milwaukeeindependent.com

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t walk by without paying my respects.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 3d

Forgot what the thrill of the first day of school felt like.

Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 4d

It's been five years since I last taught in a classroom setting. Tomorrow I begin teaching the first of a 6-week course on the history and controversy surrounding Civil War monuments and I couldn't be more excited.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 3d

My neighbor is already outside blowing leaves. There is a special place in hell for these people.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, Chris. Will do my best.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 4d

I now have a detailed outline of my next book project on the Gettysburg Campaign and the experiences of African Americans. The focus is now broader than this recent thread below. I am going to give some thought as to whether I should try to secure an agent for this one.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 9d

Took two days off after submitting the final draft of my Robert Gould Shaw bio, but now I am back to work on my new book project, which is a study of the Gettysburg Campaign from the perspective of the thousands of enslaved laborers forced to travel with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

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Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social · 4d

Look what came in the mail today, @uncpress.bsky.social @simpsonvos.bsky.social @profsommerville.bsky.social! 🗃️

Printed copy of Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis held by the author in the background

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 4d

I now have a detailed outline of my next book project on the Gettysburg Campaign and the experiences of African Americans. The focus is now broader than this recent thread below. I am going to give some thought as to whether I should try to secure an agent for this one.
bsky.app/profile/civi...

Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 9d

Took two days off after submitting the final draft of my Robert Gould Shaw bio, but now I am back to work on my new book project, which is a study of the Gettysburg Campaign from the perspective of the thousands of enslaved laborers forced to travel with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

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