Total War Explained: The Levée en Masse, Sherman's March and Stalingrad
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode opens at Stalingrad in 1942, where unpainted T-34 tanks rolled from the factory str...
1 Loka 23min
USS Cairo: First Ship Sunk by an Electric Mine and Its Century in the Mud
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The USS Cairo was a city-class ironclad built in 1861 at Mound City, Illinois, by James Eads and...
1 Loka 22min
Atlanta Campaign 1864: Snake Creek Gap, Kennesaw and 81 Exploding Rail Cars
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!With Ulysses S. Grant coordinating offensives across the Confederacy, William T. Sherman moved s...
1 Loka 21min
Abraham Lincoln's Negative Capability: Frontier Grief to the Almanac Trial
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode traces Abraham Lincoln through the idea of negative capability, the ability to hold...
1 Loka 22min
Fredericksburg 1862: Late Pontoon Bridges and the Wall at Marye's Heights
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In November 1862 Lincoln replaced George McClellan with Ambrose Burnside, who openly said he fel...
1 Loka 25min
Election of 1860: Fake Wigwam Tickets, 57 Ballots and No Southern Votes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 1860 presidential election began with a Republican convention in Chicago where every front-r...
1 Loka 24min
Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858: The Freeport Trap and a Shorthand Relay
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1858 Abraham Lincoln was a former one-term congressman practicing law in Springfield when he ...
1 Loka 20min
Lee at Gettysburg: Absent Cavalry, Ewell's Hesitation and the Fishhook
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1863 Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania without his cavalry chief, J.E.B. Stuar...
1 Loka 22min
