The Bonds of War (with Diana Dretske)
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 Imm...
18 Maj 202140min
Unlike Anything That Ever Floated (with Dwight Hughes)
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 Monit...
23 Apr 202150min
Greg Mertz Looks Back
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...
7 Apr 202148min
A Thousand May Fall (with Brian Matthew Jordan)
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.
9 Mars 202135min
Mapping the Western Theater (with Steve Stanley and Kris White)
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: T...
16 Feb 202159min
Richmond: The Embattled Capital (with Bert Dunkerly and Doug Crenshaw)
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.
2 Feb 202144min
Johnston & Johnston in the Western Theater
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 Macko...
21 Jan 20211h 11min
What We've Learned Since the Sesquicentennial
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...
7 Jan 20211h 15min
