Emerging Civil War

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. Donate:  https://bit.ly/ECW2022Wreaths Press Release:  https://emergingcivilwar.com/2022/08/31/emerging-civi...

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--w...

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.