Emerging Civil War

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 his...

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 .