Juneteenth: General Order No. 3, Emancipation Park and Opal Lee's Walk
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Exactly 900 days passed between the Emancipation Proclamation taking effect on January 1, 1863, ...
1 Okt 19min
Jubal Early: Unionist Delegate Turned Architect of the Lost Cause Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jubal Early was born in Virginia in 1816 to a well-connected slaveholding family and lost his mo...
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John Brown at Harpers Ferry: 1,000 Pikes, a Freed Train and a Bent Sword
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1859, John Brown hid at the Kennedy Farmhouse in Maryland under the alias Isaac...
1 Okt 25min
Ironclad Era: Hampton Roads, the Ram Craze and 110-Ton Naval Guns
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia traded fire at Hampton Roads in 1862 and neither could pie...
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William T. Sherman: Bank Collapse, Breakdown and the Making of Hard War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Tecumseh Sherman spent much of his first 40 years by his own account as a failure. Born ...
1 Okt 20min
Dred Scott's 11-Year Fight: Free Soil, Roger Taney and a Quiet Manumission
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dred Scott was born enslaved in Virginia around 1799, taken to Alabama and then St. Louis by Pet...
1 Okt 23min
Carpetbagger: How a Cheap Bag Became Reconstruction's Lasting Insult
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The word carpetbagger took hold around 1867, when Tennessee politician Andrew J. Fletcher mocked...
1 Okt 25min
Blockade Runners: From Carthage's Grain Boats to Confederate Steamers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode traces the blockade runner, a ship built to slip through a naval barricade rather t...
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