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. 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....
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.o...
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. 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....
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. 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.
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. 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....
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. 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....
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. 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....
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." 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....
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." 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....
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." 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....
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. 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 civi...
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. 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....
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. 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.
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. 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 you...
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. 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....
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. 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....
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 . 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....
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." This episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast is brought to you by Civil War Trails,...
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. 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.
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 ). This episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast is brough...
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. 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....
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 ...
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 ...
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."
