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The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion might be the single most important source historians use for understanding the Civil War. But as historian Yael Sternhell explains in her new book, War on Record, the O.R. has a life and a story of its own--and might not always be the objective history people assume.
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160 years ago, William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston were squaring off in northeast Georgia as Sherman's armies drove into the heart of the Deep South. The Atlanta Campaign would prove decisive to the Civil War's outcome. Historian David Powell is chronicling that campaign in his latest body of work and joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to discuss.
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Counterfactual thinking and how it's useful in the field of history. We have two segments in today's podcast. Our guest in part one is Dr. Joel Benington, professor at St. Bonaventure University. Our guest in part two is Dr. Doug Douds of the Army War College.
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The battle of Dranesville—"a Northern Virginia town in the crossfire of a forgotten battle" that is forgotten no longer, thanks to a new book by ECW's Ryan Quint.
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As the spring 1864 Overland Campaign unfolded, the Army of Northern Virginia's high command found itself drawing on a shallower and shallower bench. By mid-May, the army's A-Team was gone, and the B-Team that took its place highlighted just how indispensable Robert E. Lee had become.This episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast is brought to you by Civil War Trails, the world’s largest open-air museum, offering more than 1,500 sites across six states. Request a brochure at civilwartrails.org to start planning your trip today.
ECW's Neil Chatelain discusses Treasure and Empire: The Panama Route, the West, and the Campaigns to Control America's Mineral Wealth—gold, silver, and copper—during the Civil War.
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Aloha from Hawai'i! Author Paul Taylor joins the ECW Podcast to talk about the footprints the American Civil War left on the Pacific island kingdom.
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Jaimee Umstattd of the Gettysburg Foundation joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast as part of Women's History Month to talk about her work with the Foundation's Leadership program and "Children of 1863" museum.
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For Women's History Month, Michele Hessler, vice president of the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable, talks about Civil War life in the most famous small town in America.
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In commemoration of Women's History Month, Dr. Angela Zombek from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about incarceration, occupation, insurrection, and more.
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Join Emerging Civil War's chief historian, Cecily Nelson Zander, for a discussion about her new book, "The Army Under Fire: Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era."
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Join co-authors Dan Welch and Kevin Pawlak as they discuss their new title in the Emerging Civil War Series, "Never Such a Campaign: The Battle of Second Manassas."
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Award-winning author John Waugh talks about some of the most colorful, best-known, and surprising personalities of the Civil War, collected in his new book "Unforgettables: Winners, Losers, Strong Women, and Eccentric Men of the Civil War Era."
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How do you measure the cost of war? Garry Adelman, chief historian for the American Battlefield Trust, joins Chris Mackowski to talk about a new publication they collaborated on—available exclusively through the Trust—that offers a "visual summary" of war's destruction, devastation, and human toll.
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Andy Waskie of the General Meade Society joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about the Union army's famous "goggle-eyed snapping turtle," George Gordon Meade, the victor of the battle of Gettysburg.
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Crunch the numbers at Cold Harbor with Dr. Nathan Provost as he joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to discuss casualties at one of the war's most controversial—and misrepresented—battles.
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Tyler McGraw, the Unfiltered Historian, joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about his essay in the ECW hardcover "The Civil War and Pop Culture": Civil War video games and their effectiveness as a tool for introducing new audiences to the Civil War.
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Historian George Rable, author of "Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War," joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about his new book and his long career.
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Historian Timothy B. Smith returns to the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about "The Iron Dice of Battle," his new biography of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West.
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Join the Emerging Civil War Podcast for a conversation with Jim Hessler—historian, author, Dan Sickles biographer, Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide, and co-host of the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast.
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Union General John Schofield was a major player in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, and later one of the most consequential Generals in Chief of the U.S. Army. But was he also a snake in the grass? Join historians Joe Ricci and Sean Chick for a discussion.
Joe works as a historian for the Battle of Franklin Trust. Sean is the author of the ECW Series book "They Came Only to Die: The Battle of Nashville."
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Join the Emerging Civil War Podcast for a conversation with the two most recent additions to ECW's stable of writers, Tonya McQuade and Evan Portman.
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Confederate Gen. James Longstreet was one of the original victims of "cancel culture"—and he was "cancelled" by fellow Confederates. Historians Kevin Levin and Todd Groce join the Emerging Civil War Podcast for a discussion of Confederate Cancel Culture.
Kevin Levin writes the Civil War Memory blog on Substack (kevinmlevin.substack.com), and Todd Groce is the president and CEO of the Georgia Historical Society (www.georgiahistory.com).
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Historian Timothy B. Smith joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about the latest volume in his ongoing study of the Vicksburg Campaign. "Bayou Battles for Vicksburg" covers Ulysses S. Grant's operations from January–April 1863.
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Did Little Round Top make Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's career? Did the movie "Gettysburg" make Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain? To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the movie "Gettysburg," historian Tom Desjardin joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about the impact of the movie on our memory of Chamberlain--as well as Tom's own experiences behind the scenes consulting on the movie.
Dr. Desjardin is a Chamberlain biographer and the author of "Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign" and "These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory."
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October 8 marked the anniversary of the 1862 battle of Perryville. ECW Chief Historian Cecily Nelson Zander and historian Chris Kolakowski, author of "The Civil War at Perryville: Battling for the Bluegrass," join Chris Mackowski for a discussion of the campaign. This episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast is brought to you by Civil War Trails, the world's largest open-air museum offering over 1,500 sites across six states. Request a brochure at civilwartrails.org to start planning your trip today.
The 160th anniversary of the battle of Bristoe Station is coming up on October 14. Join the Emerging Civil War Podcast for a conversation with historians Kevin Pawlak and Jeff Hunt--author of Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station--about this key phase of the "forgotten fall" of 1863.
A discussion of the recent title in the Emerging Civil War 10th Anniversary Series, The Civil War and Pop Culture.
Emerging Civil War will be helping raise money and awareness for Wreaths Across America again for 2023. Chris Mackowski talks with ECW's Sarah Kay Bierle, who is co-leading the effort.
Kevin Pawlak discusses his new book on the September 1862 Maryland Campaign, "Such a Clash of Arms"
A chat with Hampton Newsome, recipient of the 2023 Emerging Civil War Book Award for "Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond."
Explore the postwar lives of Civil War veterans on the West Coast with Richard Heisler of Civil War Seattle.
Historians Frank Varney, Nick Sacco, and Dave Powell join Chris Mackowski for a roundtable discussion of Ulysses S. Grant, memoir, and historical memory, based on Varney's new book "General Grant and the Verdict of History."
Meet the small handful of Black surgeons who helped the Union effort in the Civil War. We talk with Jill L. Newmark, author of "Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons" from ECW's Engaging the Civil War Series.
Was John Brown a freedom fighter or a domestic terrorist? Join Kevin Pawlak and Jon-Erik Gilot for a discussion of their new ECW Series book, "John Brown and the Raid on Harpers Ferry."
Don't forget "Uncle Sam's webbed feet," Abraham Lincoln admonished. The Emerging Civil War Podcast remembers "The Civil War on the Water" with author Dwight Hughes, who joins us to talk about his new co-edited book in the ECW 10th Anniversary Series.
"To Hell or Richmond"—that was the cry during the spring of 1862. It's also the title of a new ECW Series book about the Peninsula Campaign by Doug Crenshaw and Drew Gruber, who join us on the latest episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast.
Ulysses S. Grant was known as a heavy cigar smoker. How does a living historian like Curt Fields deal with that? Curt joins Chris Mackowski on the Emerging Civil War podcast to talk about Grant's cigar smoking and how Curt approaches that in his programs.
Historian Brian Steel Wills joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about his new book, Running the Race: The "Public Face" of Charlton Heston and Heston's love of history--including Heston's Civil War connections.
Dive into a discussion about Civil War monuments and how they relate to our memory of the war. Emerging Civil War historians Jon Tracey and Chris Mackowski talk about the ECW 10th Anniversary Series book Civil War Monuments and Memory.
Explore the 22 critical decisions of the Shiloh Campaign with Dave Powell as he talks about his new book, Decisions at Shiloh.
Hit the Civil War Trails on the road to Richmond with Drew Gruber, who joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about a new trail brochure, The Civil War in Coastal Virginia.
Drew Gruber, the executive director for Civil War Trails, recently co-authored To Hell or Richmond: The 1862 Peninsula Campaign with Doug Crenshaw for the Emerging Civil War Series.
The Adams County Historical Society is getting ready to open its new museum in Gettysburg. Executive Director Andrew Dalton joins Emerging Civil War to offer an update--including a bit of a sneak peek!
Camp Nelson National Monument, one of the newest sites in the National Park Service system, has a vibrant and complex Civil War and Emancipation history. Chief Interpreter Steve Phan joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to share some of the stories.
It's Black History Month, but Black history has found itself in the political crosshairs. Kevin Levin of Civil War Memory joins Emerging Civil War's Chris Mackowski to discuss.
They are some of the best-known and best-loved Civil War musicians: the 2nd South Carolina String Band! ECW's Chris Mackowski catches up with banjo player Joe Ewers for a conversation about music, reenacting, retirement, and more!
What was U.S. Grant's relationship to slavery, and how did that tie into the larger context of slavery around Grant's home in St. Louis? Historian Nick Sacco has just completed a new exhibit for the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site that explores the fascinating connection and context.
Explore the Civil War history around Mobile, Alabama—from the historic forts protecting the city to Battle of Mobile Bay to the battle of Fort Blakeley—with ECW's Chris Mackowski and Kris White.
The Mud March was one of Ambrose Burnside's low points of the war. But as ECW historian Kris White discusses, there's more to the story than "Burnside stuck in the mud."
Emerging Civil War made a little history of its own recently by selecting its first female chief historian, Cecily Nelson Zander. We talk with her about her new role and the future of ECW.
As Emerging Civil War's Christmas treat to you, we offer a special across-the-Pond catch-up between Darren "Daz" Rawlings of the U.S. Civil War &. U.K. History site and ECW's Chris Mackowski.
It's a bleak-sounding description for an especially bleak battle. Author Sean Michael Chick discusses the December 1864 battle outside Tennessee's capital city and his upcoming book in the Emerging Civil War Series.
Historian Jill Ogline Titus gives us a chance to see the most famous small town in America, Gettysburg, in a new way: at the crossroads of Centennial planning, the Civil Rights Movement, and Cold War patriotism.
The author's book on the subject is now available through UNC Press.
Greg Wade of the Franklin Civil War Roundtable talks about the final fateful campaign of John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee.
Historian Joe Ricci explores one of the most tantalizing "lost opportunities" of the Civil War: the Federal escape from Spring Hill, Tennessee, which set up the battle of Franklin.
What do Mexico and Argentina have to do with the American Civil War? Historian Evan Rothera joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about "Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas," offering a new take on international relations during the war and after.
Gary Gallagher talks about his latest edited collection, a new Library of America edition of Bruce Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy.
Dan Welch steps in as guest host to talk with Chris Mackowski about Chris's new book, "The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi," which covers one of the most overlooked phases of Grant's Vicksburg Campaign.
Wreaths Across America is one of America's most poignant holiday events. This year, Emerging Civil War is helping support efforts at Winchester National Cemetery. Sarah Kay Bierle and her mom, Susan Bierle, talk about the project and a special event sponsored by ECW to support it.
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***Sarah wants to clarify that she has confirmed the burial of soldiers who died at the battle of New Market in Winchester National Cemetery. The historical information was finally confirmed a day or two after this podcast was recorded!
Historians Kevin Pawlak, Dan Welch, and Chris Mackowski talk about the period between the battles of Second Manassas and Antietam: John Pope, Fitz John Porter, and Politics A-Plenty!
Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command is the recipient of this year's ECW Book Award. We talk with the author, historian Kent Masterson Brown.
The first action of the Second Manassas Campaign OR the last action of the Peninsula Campaign? ECW author Mike Block talks about the battle of Cedar Mountain and his recent book, The Carnage was Fearful.
If anyone in the Confederacy had big dreams, it was P.G.T. Beauregard. Join Sean Chick for a discussion of his new Emerging Civil War Series biography, Dreams of Victory: P.G.T. Beauregard in the Civil War.
Gary Gallagher joins the Emerging Civil War podcast to discuss his latest edited essay collection on primary sources, "Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works."
It was the best of Jackson; it was the worst of Jackson. The Stonewall of the Valley Campaign was not the Stonewall of the Seven Days. Sarah Kay Bierle, Doug Crenshaw, and Chris Mackowski talk about the tale of two Jacksons.
Learn more about the 1862 Valley Campaign with Sarah' recent series of articles at Emerging Civil War, and explore Stonewall's involvement around Richmond--or lack thereof--with Doug's book in the Emerging Civil War Series, Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up: The Seven Days' Battles, June 25-July 1, 1862.
Historian Brad Gottfried talks about the efforts of the Antietam Institute to shed a scholarly light on one of the war's most pivotal battles.
Explore an initiative underway to honor Civil War veterans who died in Great Britain by providing them with new headstones.
Learn more about the Monuments for UK Veterans of the American Civil War Association.
Follow “Grant versus Lee” from the Wilderness to Appomattox—in 304 pages. Chris Mackowski and Dan Welch talk about the latest book from the ECW 10th anniversary series.
ECW celebrates the bicentennial of Grant's birth with a conversation with living historian Curt Fields, one of the nation's preeminent Grant presenters.
ECW historians Kris White and Ryan Quint play armchair quarterback with Chris Mackowski's recent book Decisions at Fredericksburg.
Commemorating 25 years of preservation success with the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust.
Historian Sean Chick talks about his book, the latest in the Emerging Civil War Series, Grant's Left Hook: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, May 5-June 7, 1864.
Historian Jim Woodrick talks with Chris Mackowski about his book, The Civil War Siege of Jackson, Mississippi.
Brian Swartz talks about his new Emerging Civil War Series biography Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War.
Celebrate Emerging Civil War's 10th Anniversary with a pair of books about the Civil War Summer of '63. Chris Mackowski and Dan Welch go behind the scenes on the project in the new episode of the Emerging Civil War podcast.
Read more in The Summer of '63: Gettysburg and The Summer of '63: Vicksburg and Tullahoma.
Award-winning historian Steve Davis talks about the early phases of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. His years of research on the campaign have resulted in seven books, including A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5-July 18, 1864 in the Emerging Civil War Series.
Chris Mackowski and Nathan Provost have a wide-ranging conversation about the Overland Campaign, which was in full swing 157 years ago this month.
Historian Diana Dretske discusses the esprit de corps between men from the same Illinois hometown with similar but dissimilar backgrounds--the subject of her new book, The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
Dwight Hughes shares about the Battle of Hampton Roads, the development and technology of the ironclads, and his new book in the Emerging Civil War Series, Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862.
Historian Greg Mertz talks Shiloh, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania and more as he looks back, on the eve of his retirement, on more than three and a half decades with the National Park Service.
Greg is the author of Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 in the Emerging Civil War Series.
Brian Matthew Jordan looks a regiment--the 107th Ohio Infantry--both typical and unique to explore life, death, and survival in the Union Army in his new book, A Thousand May Fall.
Cartographer Steve Stanley and historian Kris White discuss mapping the battlefields of the Civil War's western theater for the American Battlefield Trust.
Their book, Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, is now available.
Visit the Confederacy's "Embattled Capital" with authors Bert Dunkerly and Doug Crenshaw as they talk about their new book, Embattled Capital: A Guide to Richmond During the Civil War.
Albert Sidney Johnston and Joseph E. Johnston were both sent to command the Confederacy's western theater. Emerging Civil War historians Greg Mertz, Angela Riotto, and Kris White join host Chris Mackowski to talk about the very different circumstances the Johnstons faced.
In a chat recorded in December 2020, Chris Mackowski, Cecily Nelson Zander, Kevin Pawlak and Sarah Kay Bierle discussed reflections on the last ten years in personal exploration of history and changes in the history field--from the beginning of the war to the ending dates to publishing trends and newly added focuses in public history interpretation.
A major preservation acquisition at Stones River has filled in a huge chunk of the battlefield. With the anniversary of the battle coming up, Chris Mackowski talks with Emerging Civil War historians Chris Kolakowski, Bert Dunkerly, and Caroline Davis about Stones River.
One of the most crucial pieces of unpreserved battlefield property is about to be saved. Emerging Civil War's Chris Mackowski talks with Garry Adelman of the American Battlefield Trust and ECW historians Bert Dunkerly and Doug Crenshaw about the intersection of Gaines's Mill and Cold Harbor.
The Adams County Historical Society in Gettysburg is preparing to build a new Exhibit, Research, and Education Center. Executive Director Andrew Dalton joins Emerging Civil War's Chris Mackowski to talk about the project.
In this special edition of the Emerging Civil War podcast, we get Civil War history from the Gettysburg Campaign and Civil War holiday gift ideas--from the Civil War & More bookshop.
Dave Powell talks about Ulysses S. Grant's "impulse of victory" at Chattanooga.
Dave's newest book, The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga, is now available from Southern Illinois University Press.
We know Wild Bill Hickok best as a figure from the Old West, but Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill talk with Chris Mackowski about Wild Bill in the Civil War, popular media, myth, and memory too.
You can find information about the newest book in the Engaging the Civil War Series, Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory, which delves deeper into the life and memory of this historical figure.
How did northern Civil War veterans impact the Shenandoah Valley after the war? Emerging Civil War's Chris Mackowski talks with Jonathan Noyalas, Jay Richardson, and Nikki Roland of Shenandoah University about their surprising research.
Learn more with Jonathan Noyalas's Civil War Legacy in the Shenandoah: Reunion & Reconciliation.
Emerging Civil War's David Dixon talks about his new biography, Radical Warrior: August Willich's Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General.
Harold Holzer discusses his new book, The Presidents Vs. The Press: The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media--From the Founding Fathers to Fake News, with Emerging Civil War's Chris Mackowski.
Join Phill Greenwalt as he recounts a recent trip through the battlefields of the Western Theater.
Just in time to get ready for the battle's 185th anniversary... Emerging Civil War gets into the weeds--and the cornstalks--talking about the battle of Antietam with Kevin Pawlak, Dan Vermilya, and Chris Mackowski.
Learn more about the battle with Dan's book in the Emerging Civil War Series, That Field of Blood: The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862.
Civil War Times and America's Civil War magazines both temporarily suspended operations at the start of the pandemic. Now they're on their way back. Emerging Civil War's Chris Mackowski talks with editors Dana Shoaf and Chris Howland about their return.
The Union prison camp in Elmira, New York was called "Andersonville of the North." Derek Maxfield, author of a new Emerging Civil War Series book on the prison, Hellmira: The Union's Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp--Elmira, NY, talks about the camp with Chris Mackowski.
As a living historian Curt Fields portrays Ulysses S. Grant. Get inside Grant's mind, and learn some surprising insights.
For Civil War veterans, the war didn't end just because everyone went home. Chris Mackowski talks with historians Brian Matthew Jordan and Evan Rothera about their new book, The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans.
Chris Mackowski chats with Zachery A. Fry about the Army of the Potomac and the political allegiances of the soldiers within its ranks. It's a fascinating conversation, spotlighting facts and ideas explored in Fry's new book, A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac.
Emerging Civil War's Chris Mackowski leads a discussion with Chris Kolakowsi, Doug Ullman, and Kris White on where and how the Civil War ended.
Chris Mackowski, Rob Orrison, and Kris White talk about Stonewall Jackson's accidental wounding at the hands of his own men during the battle of Chancellorsville.
Learn more with Chris and Kris's book The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson: The Mortal Wounding of the Confederacy's Greatest Icon.