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I have seen this type of blog before where historical entries of writings or whatnot from the past are inputted in the modern blog-journal format. This one takes entries which appear to be actual journal or other writings from Civil War figures. You may find it interesting.http://www.cw-chronicles.com/blog/
That's pretty cool! As long as the entries are accurate, this is a great learning tool. I wonder if there are other historical blogs like that.
There's a Samuel Pepys blog here:http://www.pepysdiary.com/He was a figure in the 1600s (I hadn't heard of him before I saw the blog a while back). It looks like that blog may have a decent following. You could do such a blog for just about any historical figure, I think, if he or she had a diary of sorts.
Why the need of a diary though? It can still be historically accurate, just not with EXACT dates. (OK, so it happened on July 12th, not the 11th). There has to be more stuff like this out there. A Civil War Soldier's “blog” would be interesting.
Why the need of a diary though? It can still be historically accurate, just not with EXACT dates. (OK, so it happened on July 12th, not the 11th). There has to be more stuff like this out there. A Civil War Soldier's "blog" would be interesting.
Actually Civil War Soldier diaries are being used more and more in research....the problem is there are not that many diaries out there accessible to researchers. They are great primary sources for depicting mood, culture, daily routines etc.....and this is the nuts and bolts of any historical method. 8)
One of the quentisential civil war diaries is Mary Chestnuts, She was a southern lady I beleive married to a confedate senator.
One of the quentisential civil war diaries is Mary Chestnuts, She was a southern lady I beleive married to a confedate senator.
Yes and I have a brand new copy never read....it's huge. 😀
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