The Cheairs Family and RippaVilla (with Eric Jacobson)
The Cheairs family of Spring Hill lived on a stately plantation called RippaVilla. Today, the Battle of Franklin Trust manages the property. Eric Jacobson, president and CEO of the Trust, has a new bo...
23 Jun 55min
A Hell of a Regiment: The 20th Maine (with Jared Peatman)
The 20th Maine Infantry is one of the most famous regiments of the Civil War, yet there's been surprisingly little attention devoted to unit's history. As author Jared Peatman reminds us, there's far ...
16 Jun 59min
Spring Savas Beatie Release (with Ted Savas)
Chris Mackowski, host of the Emerging Civil War Podcast, found a lot of cool reading this spring thanks to a strong line-up of releases from Savas Beatie. From U.S. Grant's trip around the world to St...
9 Jun 1h 2min
Three Things I Learned (with Sam Flowers and Ryan Quint)
The ugly truth behind the “polite” behavior of “gentleman” in the Antebellum South. The power of rifled artillery against masonry forts. The statues in the U.S. Capitol. The Army of the Potomac as Bal...
26 Mai 56min
Practical Liberators (with Kristopher Teters)
As Federal armies in the west captured huge swaths of land in the early years of the war, the front line of emancipation moved with them, presenting pressing problems for military, political, and civi...
19 Mai 56min
Jackson's Romney Campaign (with Tim Snyder)
Stonewall Jackson’s winter operations in the earliest months of 1862 proved to be one of the most notorious low points of his entire Civil War career. Author Tim Snyder has a new, in-depth look at thi...
12 Mai 57min
This Great Contest Afloat (with Neil Chatelain)
Forget the Eastern, Western, and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the Civil War. The naval theaters of the war invite an entirely different way of looking at the conflict. ECW's Neil Chatelain provides a...
5 Mai 51min
