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Excited that #TheFalseCause officially releases this week. To mark the occasion I want to thank folks who made the book better. Historians often write alone but we don’t edit alone. Here’s a thread on some who helped make it a better book&their own work/1
m.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-false-ca…
First I got to thank @HilaryGreen77 who was my first test reader & helped me realize what I was missing. She’s an amazing scholar. Read Educational Reconstruction if you haven’t. Her next book is going to blow apart the field of Civil War memory. /2 amazon.com/Educational-Re…
Next up, my last reader was @Ash_Fitzsimmons who’s own novels are amazing. She proof reads almost everything I write and makes my prose clearer and stronger. /3 amazon.com/gp/aw/d/006268…
In between a lot of others read parts of it and gave me feedback. @EthanKytle helped me reshape the intro. He and @BlainRoberts1 also gave me a lot of moral support over the process and their book helped me think about the memory of slavery /4 amazon.com/Denmark-Veseys…
Of course I have to thank the OG of Confederate Monument studies. @SassyProf who blurbed the book & also provided me valuable feedback on Chapter 3 (ironically a chapter not on monuments). I couldn’t have written it without her amazing Dixie’s Daughters 5/ amazon.com/Dixies-Daughte…
My other blurber is @davidsilkenat who also let me read drafts of his book on surrender which was so important for chapter 2. I expect his book will win a lot of awards. /6 amazon.com/Raising-White-…
She’s not on twitter but Barb Gannon helped me realize I needed to break chapters 3 and 4 up when she read it as an article draft before I decided a book was needed. Grad students doing Civil War memory, this one is the one you need. /7 amazon.com/Americans-Reme…
Jennifer Kosmin reads a ton of my work and is probably the greatest historian of medicine, science, gender, and early modern Italy you’ll ever meet. Her own book with @routledgebooks is going to wow the field. /8 read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/article-…
Joseph Glatthaar, who wrote General Lee’s Army, has been supportive of me for years. He is an amazing scholar as well for those who love military history. I was lucky to work with him in grad school. /9 amazon.com/General-Lees-A…
Pulitzer finalist Fitzhugh Brundage is a man who writes on depressing topics (as do his students) but he does so beautifully. Check out his book on torture. As with those above, he gave me feedback and advice that made the book better. /10 amazon.com/Civilizing-Tor…
& @uvapress proof reader George Roupe did a great job but I get to blame him for any typos right. Just kidding they are mine and he made sure there were far fewer (don’t tell me if you found a typo; tell the press if you like as I don’t wanna know now that I can’t change it)/11
The two anonymous readers also provided amazing feedback that made the book better. Later this week I’ll highlight some books that shaped my thinking for each chapter, but for now buy all the books in this thread. /12
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In light of the news coming out of North Carolina, if anyone has questions about the history of #SilentSam let me know. I literally wrote the book on that monument. 1/ amazon.com/False-Cause-Fa…
To briefly summarize. The UDC offered to cover around a third of the cost of the monument but failed to meet their planned amount. They refused to sign any contract that would make them fiscally responsible for #SilentSam. Instead they let @UNC's President take responsibility 2/
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Today’s #SlaveRolls thread looks at Nathan Bedford Forrest. While indexing @Patriot_Pat1 found roll 2476 listing laborers employed by that Forrest's Cavalry in October 1863. (Patrick collaborated on the research but most of the interpretation below is my own so don't blame him)
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This isn’t the only way that @Ancestry whitewashes slavery. In the past year they also changed their search engine. It used to be if your ancestor owned slaves it would pop up when you searched their name. That’s no longer true. The slave censuses are no longer name searchable.
This change means you won’t ever know your ancestor was a slave owner unless you specifically go looking and do a keyword search specifically on the slave census. Even then it’s harder to find them as it doesn’t look for common misspellings or initials anymore.
I don’t know if it’s purposeful but @Ancestry knows about the issue & haven’t fixed it yet. They claimed the old way caused issues for family trees when records were saved but they could find a way around that issue if they wanted. They don’t seem to want to spend the resources.
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