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
Battlefields of the Valley--1862 (with Michael Gionfriddo)
The 1862 Valley Campaign offers plenty of history AND landscape to explore. Michael Gionfriddo, a park ranger with the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Association, joins host Chris Mackowski to talk ab...
2 Jun 1h 15min
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
