8/28/08 - Posted a link for "How the South Was Lost," a hilarious youtube video.
8/18/08 - Posted "Let's End the Civil War!" from 1962, an interesting little article about the dawn of modern CW commemorative activity.
8/11/08 - My son Ulysses Begone assures me that all the hip and with-it webmasters make links open new windows when clicked. So I have done that throughout JonahWorld! Also ran a link checker afterwards and removed some dead links.
8/1/08 - Posted Oval sticker.
7/15/08 - Posted "My 15 Minutes Out of the Attic."
7/11/08 - Posted "Once More... With Feeling: Reenactment in Contemporary Art and Culture."
7/3/08 - Merrie Melodies' "Confederate Honey" (1940). Priceless.
7/2/08 - I review "C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America" (2004), a mockumentary.
6/12/08 - Posted Uniform coat of the Sweet Home Alabama Regiment. While Zant might not like Neil Young ("Southern Man don't need him around"), you have to admit that Young is a whole lot less farby.
5/21/08 - Posted The Lee Stooges. Mal Stylo returns!
5/5/08 - Posted Cardboard cartridge box (as used at a reenactment).
4/14/08 - Posted Monty comic strip
4/8/08 - Posted You Might Be Obsessed With Gettysburg If...
2/26/08 - Posted Flight Deck cartoon (Photoshoppped by a friend).
1/29/08 - Posted Not all Civil War trivia is factual!
1/23/08 - Posted The Outer Limits Meets Gettysburg. (I've been to events like that. And I've seen Confederates who look like meatloaves...)
1/8/08 - As a misty-eyed retrospective, I have posted The Good and the Bad of the 125th Anniversary Events. Also, a previously unpublished Mal Stylo diskette comes to light: The Wartime Journal of Mal Stylo!
1/1/08 - Normally I clear out this page every year but this year, since I am now doing reenacting again, I think I'll leave the 2007 updates linked here... Happy new Year!
12/18/07 - Added A Politically Correct Christmas to my Christmas page. On a less festive note, I also added A Little Justice, Please (“Underwear” Mosby).
12/10/07 - Added Four for Freedom: America's First Abolitionists.
11/27/07 - Added Abe Lincoln Cherished Myths.
11/26/07 - Added an excerpt from a book I'm reading, here (more info about the famous "Bixby Letter").
11/21/07 - Eli Whitney. Everyone knows that his invention of the cotton gin indirectly caused the Civil War because it made cotton a viable crop, right? (I've been reading that for decades.) Wrong. Added a book excerpt to my short cotton gin article here.
11/15/07 - Posted Randolph County Rebel: Jim Kincade, the 7th Arkansas Infantry, and Reenacting the American Civil War.
11/5/07 - Posted The Five Worst Events I Have Ever Done.
10/24/07 - Posted A Certain Fatality... to Lincolnia.
10/11/07 - I know it's a little early in the season (I haven't even gotten out the tree), but, awww... what the heck? Posted The Rebel Christmas Song by Gary Edmisten. More heart-warming Christmas stuff here.
10/9/07 - Posted Rebel raider disguised in hoop skirt - a rip-snorter of a tale!
10/3/07 - Posted Dixie Tradition Kept Alive In Brazil Enclave. More about Confederados (Brazilian Rebs), here.
9/26/07 - Posted Troop Surge.
9/13/07 - Posted Some Notes on New Millennium Reenacting.
9/11/07 - Posted Eating Crow.
8/14/07 - Added Lincoln's Doppleganger.
8/13/07 - Added The Sundered Banner.
7/6/07 - Added Civil War Reenactors Live To Fight Old Battles and Antebellum Southern Christianity.
6/25/07 - NOTE: There are a lot of articles and writing on JonahWorld!, not all of which I myself wrote. I think the majority of the content comes from somewhere else. I credit it wherever possible, however sometimes I have to write something like, "Found on the Internet" when I don't know the source. So, if it doesn't say, "by Jonah Begone" somewhere in the article, I didn't write it.
5/22/07 - Added Could Modern Trauma Care Have Saved Abraham Lincoln? and Did Lincoln Belong to the Angels or the Ages?
5/17/07 - Added Change the past.
5/15/07 - Added Lincoln's Burial (and Re-burials).
5/11/07 - Added You Might Be A Civil War Reenactor If... (See also You Might Be A Reenactor If...)
5/1/07 - Added Reenacting as Religion.
4/10/07 - Added Two Photographic Imponderables.
3/27/07 - Added The Times They Were A-Changin' and Mary Todd Lincoln.
3/23/07 - Added Moxie to Hendershotts.
3/15/07 - Did Robert E. Lee really make a comment about the superior generalship of the Media?
2/20/07 - Posted Battles over Battlefields. Also, posted What's a Cotton "Gin?"
2/14/07 - It being 2007, we're going to hear a lot about Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. But is this really where America began? TAKE MY SURVEY! When and Where Did America Begin?
1/29/07 - Posted Re-enactor presents Civil War medicine as it was.
1/24/07 - It occurs to me that reenactors might like Wondermark, a strip combining 19th C. art with modern humor.
1/3/07 - Happy new year! Posted Conflict of Interest.
