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		<title>Groundbreaking Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to hear President Obama speak at the groundbreaking ceremonies for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C., the newest member of the Smithsonian family of museums.  For more on the museum, including an interview with director Dr. Lonnie Bunch, visit here. So &#8230; say you were placed in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwcrossroads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18189367&amp;post=2858&amp;subd=cwcrossroads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Western Theater, 1861-1862</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks D. Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been asked to assemble a list of the top half-dozen books on the Western Theater (left somewhat undefined in terms of the Trans-Mississippi) for the period 1861-1862.  So tell me what books you think should be included on a list of essential reading &#8230; and why.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwcrossroads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18189367&amp;post=2855&amp;subd=cwcrossroads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on the M3 Lee/Grant Tank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks D. Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found these videos to be interesting &#8230; and and Enjoy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwcrossroads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18189367&amp;post=2853&amp;subd=cwcrossroads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The other General Lee and another General Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of tanks &#8230; &#8230; this is the M3 Lee tank, the first American main battle tank (then often called medium tank) of World War II (there was also an M3 Stuart light tank, as well as a M5 Stuart light tank). The British ordered a variation of the M3, called the Grant.  Compare the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwcrossroads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18189367&amp;post=2849&amp;subd=cwcrossroads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Presidents&#8217; Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks D. Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, after you learn about this, perhaps you&#8217;ll agree with this suggestion. I&#8217;m waiting for someone to declare that since this is Presidents&#8217; Day, and we celebrate American presidents, that we need to celebrate Jefferson Davis because, after all, he was an American president, too.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwcrossroads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18189367&amp;post=2847&amp;subd=cwcrossroads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The General Lee &#8230; and the General Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASCAR raised quite a fuss in some quarters a few days ago by deciding that a 1969 Dodge Charger, one of the &#8220;General Lee&#8221; cars used in the 1970s TV near-classic The Dukes of Hazzard, would not appear on the track at the Phoenix International Raceway.  It&#8217;s not the first time these past few weeks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwcrossroads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18189367&amp;post=2842&amp;subd=cwcrossroads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caption, Please &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks D. Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some suggestions &#8230; &#8220;Hi Spike!  Where&#8217;s Jeremy Lin? I want my picture with him!&#8221; &#8220;Truth, now &#8230; Willis or Patrick?&#8221; &#8220;Yet another reason for that Patriots fan to get ticked off.&#8221; &#8220;Wonder what they will make of this at Occidental Dissent?&#8221; &#8220;Are you any relation to Robert?&#8221; &#8220;You don&#8217;t look like a black Confederate.&#8221; &#160; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwcrossroads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18189367&amp;post=2837&amp;subd=cwcrossroads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoring is Bliss</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks D. Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the characteristics of blogging is that reader interest waxes and wanes in interesting ways.  For all the requests I get from some quarters to ignore some people, I notice that many of those same folks who make that request (including fellow professional academic historians) comment only when the exchanges grow fast and furious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwcrossroads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18189367&amp;post=2830&amp;subd=cwcrossroads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unconditional and Immediate Surrender</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks D. Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 150 years ago today that the Union cause found its Jeremy Lin in Ulysses S. Grant.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwcrossroads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18189367&amp;post=2827&amp;subd=cwcrossroads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And So It Goes &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks D. Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember what I said about predictable patterns of press coverage and responses to press coverage?  As I suspected, a faithful reader, Jackie Haddock, decided to prove my point in the comments section to my blog entry on how a newspaper reported an incident concerning the display of the Confederate Battle Flag in the Phoenix metropolitan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwcrossroads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18189367&amp;post=2818&amp;subd=cwcrossroads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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