Emerging Civil War

As the Civil War raged, a Civil War erupted within the Abolitionist movement, as well. What were their ultimate aims and how should the movement achieve them? Historian Frank J. Cirillo joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast for a conversation about his book, "The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union."   This episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast...

Dr. Gordon Jones of the Atlanta History Center is the 2024 recipient of the Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History. We spend some time chatting with him about his long career, including his work with the Atlanta Cyclorama. 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 sit...

Ed Lowe discusses James Longstreet's ill-starred time at command in east Tennessee in the winter of 1863–64. 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.

Scott Hartwig's "I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign" is the recipient of the 2024 Emerging Civil War Book Award. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation about the book, the battle, and the leaders who brought the armies to the banks of Antietam Creek. This episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast is brought to you by Civil W...

Terry Johnston, editor of The Civil War Monitor , joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast for a conversation about magazine publishing and being a voice for Civil War public history. 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 sta...

Explore the Civil War in deeply divided Missouri through a new collection of family letters published by Emerging Civil War's Tonya McQuade.   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.

Disinformation is not just a pressing concern for us today, but it impacts our ability to understand history clearly. Join Dr. Pauline Hoffmann, author of "Fake News, Witch Hunts, and Conspiracy Theories: An Infodemiologist's Guide to the Truth," and ECW Chief Historian Dr. Cecily Nelson Zander for a discussion about disinformation and history.   This episode of the Emerging Civil Wa...

Following Jubal Early's run at Washington, D.C., in July 1864, he fell back into the Shenandoah Valley. The Federal pursuit resulted in the Battle of Cool Spring. Jonathan Noyalas of the McCormick Civil War Institute at Shenandoah University talks about his new Emerging Civil War Series book about the battle, "The Blood-Tinted Waters of the Shenandoah."   This episode of the Emerging...

Brad Gottfried talks about his Emerging Civil War Series book "Race to the Potomac: Lee and Meade After 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.

Historians Mike Gorman from Richmond National Battlefield and JoAnna McDonald from Emerging Civil War join the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about the leadership lessons Robert E. Lee learns (and doesn't) from the hot mess of the Seven Days Battles in June–July 1862. This episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast is brought to you by Civil War Trails, the world’s largest open-air museum,...

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. This episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast is brought to you by Civil War Trai...

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. This episode of the Emerging Civil...

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. This episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast is brought to you by Civil War Trails, the world’s largest open-air museum, offerin...

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 star...

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 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  ⁠⁠civilwartr...

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 t...

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....

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 pl...

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 b...

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...

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...

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 1,5...

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,...

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. Reque...