Emerging Civil War

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.