The Art of Command during the American Civil War-Professor Barton A. Myers

With Senate Passage, Georgia Poised to Create Dedicated Fund for Protection of State’s Histoic Battlefields (Atlanta, Ga.) — A bill to establish the Vince Dooley Battlefield Trust Fund (H.B. 454) is on its way to Gov. Brian Kemp for signature following today’s...

https://www.theassemblync.com/place/history/fayetteville-museum-aims-to-right-the-record-on-civil-war-history/

Fayetteville Museum Aims to Right the Record on Civil War History The N.C. History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction will use local stories to tell “the truth with all its blemishes.”

The latest polling data has the National Park Service with a 76% approval rating among the American people. That runs across party lines with 80% of Democratic Party members and 75% of Republican Party members viewing the agency favorably. This makes it the most popular agency in the entire U.S. federal government, more popular than NASA or the Postal Service. Cutting 1000 permanent employees in their probationary period is not only a terrible idea for running the parks and historic sites, but it is also very bad politics, indiscriminate, counter productive, and will backfire in a variety of ways. Hiring 5000 seasonal employees is nice, but they will need to be trained by already overburdened and underfunded staff (which won't happen over night). Americans like their parks open and staffed. They don't like it when they close or can't be used effectively. We've seen this in the past. Furthermore, this is a catastrophic mistake when considering the importance of these people lost as possible future leaders of these precious sites. It is a massacre of the future leadership for the entire NPS system, "America's best idea."

Americans feel favorably about many federal agencies, especially the Park Service, Postal Service and NASA Democrats hold consistently favorable views of all 16 agencies asked about, while Republicans express more unfavorable than favorable views for 11 agencies.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/france-notre-dame-restoration-stained-glass-b2a11376

France Is Furious Over a Few Stained-Glass Windows in Notre Dame President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to live forever is getting panned—and may be headed for court

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/28/ludicrous-bitter-row-erupts-over-plan-to-replace-original-notre-dame-windows

‘Ludicrous’: bitter row erupts over plan to replace windows at Notre Dame Fury as President Macron reveals the new ‘contemporary gesture’ for cathedral devastated by 2019 fire

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From Shenandoah University's CWI this past April, this lecture was drawn from my second book: _Rebels against the Confederacy_.

Southern Unionists Living Under Confederate Control Washington and Lee University professor Barton Myers talked about Unionists and Confederate deserters in North Carolina who waged their own irregular war against the Confederacy. He also described the hostilities and challenges those with Union sympathies faced on the home front. This program was pa...

One of my old Civil War Institute lectures. This one on the famous "Lee to the Rear" incidents of the war, with my old friend Dr. Peter Carmichael of Gettysburg College on the introduction.

Battles of Robert E. Lee Washington and Lee University history professor Barton Myers talked about Confederate General Robert E. Lee. This talk is part of the annual conference hosted by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.

https://history.ky.gov/news/civil-war-history-day-returns-to-khs

history.ky.gov On Saturday, September 28, KHS will host its second Civil War History Day. KHS is happy to have Dr. Barton Myers (Washington & Lee University) headline the program this year. He will discuss his work on Border State Unionists, specifically on Kentucky commanders. His talk will feed into the day’s ...

My talk on James Buchanan's cabinet is now available. This is not one of my talks from my new project on Southern Union generals. Instead, this is a keynote lecture that I gave focusing on Buchanan's administration and the central challenges he faced in the final months of his administration. My students at W&L got a preview of this lecture in class this semester as well.

"Southern Unionism" | Feat. Dr. Barton A. Myers On Thursday, October 10, 2024, Dr. Barton Myers of Washington & Lee University joined LancasterHistory for a presentation on Southern Unionists who served wi...

Daniel Boone, John J Crittenden, T L Crittenden and John J Hardin…in Kentucky on the research trail for my next book.

https://acwm.org/event/grand-old-man-of-the-army-myers/

“The Grand Old Man of the Army: General Winfield Scott’s Unionism and the Secession Crisis” with Dr. Barton A. Myers - American Civil War Museum One of the most important, if often overlooked, figures of the late antebellum period is General Winfield Scott, the General in Chief of the U.S. Army. For two decades before the Civil War, he was the most critical figure in the American government. How did his unionism and his views on slavery and....