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

04/03/2025

(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...

02/25/2025

https://www.theassemblync.com/place/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.”

02/17/2025

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."

Democrats hold consistently favorable views of all 16 agencies asked about, while Republicans express more unfavorable than favorable views for 11 agencies.

02/12/2025

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

President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to live forever is getting panned—and may be headed for court

02/12/2025

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

Fury as President Macron reveals the new ‘contemporary gesture’ for cathedral devastated by 2019 fire

12/02/2024

https://www.lancasterhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/Acclaimed-Civil-War-Historian-Dr.-Barton-Myers-to-Join-LancasterHistory-for-October-10-Lecture.pdf

12/02/2024

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

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...

12/02/2024

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.

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.

12/02/2024

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

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 ...

11/25/2024

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.

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

06/13/2024

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

05/29/2024

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

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....