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• The Georgia Senate Runoff: A Historic Election
• Will Stone Mountain Change?
• Confederate Monuments in the Upstate
• From the Holler!: I’m Still Here
• From the Holler! Just an Update
• From the Holler!
• 60 Minutes: Confederate Monuments
• From the Holler!
• Fort Sanders Monument: Memorial for the Dead or Lost Cause Propaganda?
• Descendants of Alexander Stephens Speak Out
• Hanging out with Unionists, Waiting on the Eclipse
• ‘sons’ of Confederate Veterans Speak Out on Confederate Monuments
• Robert E. Lee Got it Right
• Welcome to My New Classroom
• From the Holler!: “I’M TECH DEPRIVED!!!”
• Nash Farm Battlefield Saga
• Removal of Confederate Flag Leads to Museum Closure
• Brief Comments on Monument Removal
• Museum of the American Revolution
• From the Holler!
• Unpacking and Unpacking ASA
• 40th Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference
• Guest Post: Why I Marched on January 21, 2017
• Today in Education: “Crawling with Outsiders and Foreigners”
• The Electoral College: Introduction and the 2016 Presidential Race
• From the Holler!: New Year’s Edition
• The Birth of a Nation: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
• More Confederate Flags and Donald Trump
• Hillary Becomes the Nominee
• Police Officer Fired Over Confederate Flag
• “A City too Busy to Hate” and Mayor Kasim Reed
• Donald Trump’s Confederate Flag
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Young Turks, The Blaze, and Race
• The Newest National Monument
• John Oliver Hits the Nail on the Head
• Pray for Orlando
• From the Holler!
• LIVE RIGHT NOW: Hundreds Clash During Rally at Stone Mountain
• Displaying and Teaching the Confederate Flag in the Classroom (Part 3)
• Nat Turner’s Rebellion on the Silver Screen
• Compensation for Descendants of Slave Owners?
• Confederate Memorial Hall Museum in Jacket Dispute with Alabama Collector
• Confederates for Donald Trump
• From the Holler! – North Georgia Edition
• Tonight: The Mine Wars
• The Complicated History of the Confederate Flag
• What if the South Won the American Civil War
• ‘Tis the Season for Discrimination
• “A Day Which Will Live in Infamy…”
• 39th Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference
• A Day of National Thanksgiving
• From the Holler: Gettysburg Address, Edition
• Displaying and Teaching the Confederate Flag in the Classroom (Part 2)
• Displaying and Teaching the Confederate Flag in the Classroom (Part 1)
• From the Holler!
• Durwood Dunn’s “The Civil War in Southern Appalachian Methodism”
• Catoosa County Residents Meet About Secession
• And the Flag Comes Down
• 152 Years Ago Today at Vicksburg
• Slavery and Interstate Commerce in Appalachia
• BREAKING: Columbia, South Carolina
• Flying the Flag This Day
• The Ku Klux Klan Descends Upon South Carolina Statehouse
• The Confederate Flag: A Cornerstone of White Supremacy
• John Oliver and the Confederate Flag
• The Confederate Flag Debate: A Few Good Sources
• From the Holler!
• “Any slave found intoxicated in said Village,”
• 710: Sorting Through the County Historiography
• Understanding White Privilege
• L.B. Hamb(right)
• 710: A New Project
• “Our Art is a Reflection of Our Reality”
• “The Flag Must Come Down”
• Jimmy Carter Conservation Rap
• Genealogy Field Trip: Day 2
• Genealogy Field Trip: Day 1
• From the Holler!
• NAACP vs NCAA: Confederate Battle Flag Edition
• “Worse Than Slavery,” A Bit Too Violent for Georgia Schools
• Vintage Baseball: A Re-enactment We SHOULD All Get Behind
• The Greatest Generation?
• 50 Years Later
• Confederate Islamophobia
• The Second Inaugural
• The Missouri Compromise, 1820
• From the Holler!
• Remembering Jim Crow at the Local Level: Black History Month
• From the Holler! (MLK Edition)
• The Confederate Flag vs America
• “If I Wanted To Prove My Point…”
• What Indicates that he is a Soldier?
• Veterans Day!
• Black Confederate Found
• From the Holler!
• The Musings of Billy Bearden
• The Week of Premiers and the Washington Redskins
• “We the People….”
• And America’s Number One Wrestler Is
• 9/11
• “Genuine Negro Jig”
• Total War Before Sherman: Patrick Cleburne at the Battle of Ringgold Gap (pt. 1)
• Chapter Three Sent to Committee
• “Uncle Billy”
• Happy Labor Day!
• Have a Coke and a Smile General Jackson
• And the White House Burned, Burned, Burned….
• From the Holler!
• “Oh Captain, My Captain!”
• Opinions on the Ringgold Confederate Battle Flag
• Sunday Fun: “I’m so….”
• A Short Taste of Chapter 3
• Burning of Chambersburg
• From the Holler!
• Chapter Two Sent to Committee
• Update on the Ringgold Depot Flag Dispute
• Renovating the Ringgold Depot
• The Ol’ Ringgold Depot
• “Six Year Flag Dispute in Ringgold to be Heard in Court”
• On This Day….
• Happy Birthday #Murica!
• Can the South Remain Standing?
• Happy Independence Day Everyone!!!
• Did the Battle of Gettysburg Matter?
• Confederate Tea Party
• Update: The Case of George Washington’s Broken Cane
• The Vexillology of the Confederate Flag
• Chris Rock and the Confederate Battle Flag
• From the Holler!
• Wrestler to Pin Cancer
• Thesis: Chapter One Sent to Committee
• Just One of Those Days…
• Does the Civil War Start Today?
• From the Holler!
• Memorial Day, 2014
• Stupid Things People Say About the Civil War: Part 5
• From the Holler!
• A Gentleman’s Agreement
• 44 Years Ago, Today
• From the Holler!
• From the Holler!
• A Historic Struggle: Jordan Burroughs vs David Taylor
• Frank Underwood Confronts His Civil War Heritage
• Connecting Communities through Seeds
• Profane Music: Grand Funk Railroad
• Profane
• “What Does the Confederate Battle Flag Mean to You?”
• AMC’s “TURN”: Reviews are Out
• Thank You Silas House: ASA Keynote Speech, 2014
• Falling Behind
• Sights and Sounds at ASA
• Stop Two: Marshall University
• Stop One: Johnson City
• On My Way to ASA
• Learning to Read
• Meanwhile, at the Legion of Dumb
• New York Supports the Union; Georgia Responds
• What About the Flag and Me?
• Thesis….Need I Say More?
• Congratulations to the Cast and Crew of 12 Years A Slave
• Andersonville, the Anniversary the South Would Like to Forget
• Sectionals!!!!
• Isabel’s Coca-Cola Response
• “I’d Like to Buy the World A Coke”
• Stupid Things People Say About the Civil War: Part 4
• Reflections on MLK Day
• Staying Busy
• Nelson Mandela
• Still Recovering…
• Conquerors: Andrew Jackson
• 2014 Georgia Association of Historians Annual Conference
• Headed Back to the ASA
• Weider History Group and Secession: The Proper Way to Handle A Mistake
• Monticello and Secession
• I Stand with the National Park Service
• Our Government Sucks
• Staying Busy
• Abolitionists: The Image of the Bloodhound
• A Short Lesson in Historical Research
• The Syria Question
• Leftists vs Conservatives in Connie’s World
• Pat Robertson and Appalachian “ragamuffins”
• Live from the Atlanta Fed.: Part 6 (The Last Part)
• Live from the Atlanta Fed.: Part 5
• Live from the Atlanta Fed.: Part 4
• Live from the Atlanta Fed.: Part 3
• Live from the Atlanta Fed.: Part 2
• Live from the Atlanta Fed.: Part 1
• Live From the Fed Tomorrow
• Stupid Things People Say About the Civil War: Part 3
• 199 Years Ago Today
• Stupid Things People Say About the Civil War: Part 2
• Stupid Things People Say About the Civil War: Part 1
• Dynamic Teaching Tools
• “There is nothing bad about…preferring to associate with white people” A Review
• Virginia is for Lovers, Mmm….
• Richmonders Against the Confederate Flag on I-95
• Pre-planning Starts…..
• To Buy or Not to Buy, That is the Question
• Re-enactors vs Historians vs Historians: Part 2
• Re-enactors vs Historians vs Historians: Part 1
• Getting Back In Rhythm
• Happy Independence Day!!!
• Simulating A Battle for Class
• The Modern Interpretation of the Founders?
• Some Comments Are Just Sad
• Update: Taser Wielding Rob Walker, Jr.
• The Richmond Police Weigh In on Taser-Wielding Rob Walker
• “The North Fought the Civil War to Preserve Slavery”…..Yea Right: Part 2
• “The North Fought the Civil War to Preserve Slavery”…..Yea Right: Part 1
• Designing An Appalachian Film Class Update
• Fort Sumter Rages On….somewhere else
• Today in Boston
• Fort Sumter: The Case for Hungry Soldiers
• Is the Craven’s House Getting a Face Lift?
• Appalachia and the War on Poverty
• The Countdown to the 36th ASA
• Say Goodbye to your RSS Feeders
• Sherman and the American Total War: Part 1
• 870
• Rand Paul on Mountain Top Removal
• Looks Like Appalachia is Getting “Buckwild”
• Thank God for John C. Calhoun!!!!
• Bill O’Reilly’s Take on Appalachia
• Abraham Lincoln Wins an Oscar
• Civil War Maps of Hamilton County, Tennessee
• David Tatum Hates Swear Words……
• Update on my Appalachian Film List
• Pronouncing “Appalachia”
• Happy Birthday Jackie Robinson!!!
• Appalachia in Film Class: Creating A Movie List
• Creating A Class: Appalachia in Film
• Is Anyone Feeling Generous?
• Headed to Boone!!!
• Wow, Time Flies When You’re Covered in Work
• What Does the Confederate Battle Flag Mean?
• Edited For Educational Uses
• The Gift That Keeps On Giving
• Sid Hatfield
• Black Confederates!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Presenting at the Georgia Sociological Association
• Unsolved Mysteries: The Case of George Washington’s Broken Cane
• Dallas Moses Revisited
• New Blog on the Block: Andy Pearcy Comin’ At Ya
• Daniel Day Lewis is Abraham Lincoln
• The National Park Service: What Caused the Civil War?
• Attention All!! Would you Like to Help Me Design A Class?
• Robert Gould Shaw Memorial Defaced
• Nathan Bedford Forrest on Trial: Part 1
• David Blight: American Oracle
• Appalachia is Missing
• Dav Wants A Response
• Happy Two Days After Independence Day!!!!
• The War of 1812: What is an American? Part 1
• The War of 1812: A Forgotten War