The Cities of War: Charleston (with Walt Young)
To escape from slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, all Robert Smalls had to do was smuggle his family onto a boat, steal it from Confederate officers, sneak past the harbor defenses, slip beneath t...
22 Juli 202552min
The Cities of War: Boston (with Kevin Levin)
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry--mustered in Boston but recruited from across the North--has become one of the most famous units of the Civil War. It's commander, Col. Robert Shaw, had roots in both B...
15 Juli 202559min
The Cities of War: Portland, Maine (with Ryan Quint)
As we prepare for the upcoming 11th Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, focusing this year on "The Cities of War," Emerging Civil War's Ryan Quint shares a pair of stories from war...
8 Juli 202553min
Reconsidering John Pemberton (with Morgan Gates)
While Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton was certainly not one of the Civil War's "great" commanders, he's often misunderstood. Morgan Gates, licensed battlefield guide at Vicksburg National Military...
1 Juli 20251h 6min
The Great Partnership (with Dr. Christian Keller)
Dr. Christian Keller, author of "The Great Partnership," joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about the relationship between Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and how that reverberated throu...
24 Juni 20251h
Emerson and Lincoln (with Richard Smith)
The poet and the president—two of the most famous men of their age. Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Historian Richard Smith joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast from Concord, Massachusetts, t...
17 Juni 20251h 5min
A Grand Opening Squandered (with Sean Michael Chick)
Sean Michael Chick, author of "A Grand Opening Squandered," talks about the battle of Petersburg. The battle, one of the bloodiest of the war, often gets lumped in with the nine-month siege, but Sean ...
10 Juni 20251h 5min
Great Britain in the American Civil War (with Mike Somerville and Christopher Brice)
What did the Royal Army and Navy look like at the time of the American Civil War? If they had joined the war, what kind of impact would they have been able to make? Mike Somerville and Dr. Christopher...
3 Juni 20251h 12min
