Category: Podcast
Around the Web December 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
A lot of interesting stuff over the last month. Dave Powell’s new series on the Atlanta Campaign was particularly interesting. By the way, if you…
Podcast on William Walker’s Attempt in 1860 to Spread American Slave System to Central America and Mexico
The podcast company Wondery has a series on the American “Filibuster” William Walker. Walker used terrorism and war to make himself “president” of Nicaragua right…
Podcast: Kidada Williams on the History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
Chris Hayes of MSNBC interviewed Professor Kidada E. Williams about her new book “I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the…
Podcast: Jill Ogline Titus, on Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in Americas Most Famous Small Town
Gerry Prokopowicz of Civil War Talk Radio has a fascinating interview with Jill Ogline Titus, author of Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and…
Memory Wars Podcast Will Examine How the U.S. and Germany Deal With Memory of Slavery and Holocaust
Axios reports that a new five-part podcast launched today that looks at how Germany had to confront its history of human rights abuse and genocide…
Why Studying Reconstruction Helps Us Understand the Civil War: Civil War Reconstruction Podcast #2
This week I am releasing Episode 2 of the Civil War Reconstruction Podcast. This episode looks at why students of the Civil War will understand…
Podcast on How Former Slaves Incorporated Into Cherokee Nation by Reconstruction Treaty Were Thrown Out and Now Are Back In
The Atlantic Magazine podcast The Experiment has a fascinating episode this month that looks at the status of African Americans descended from those held as…
The Pat Cleburne Emancipation Proposal Tells Us a Lot About the Cause He Served Civil War Reconstruction Podcast
Pat Cleburne was a hard-fighting Irish immigrant who rose to the rank of Major General in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. In 1864 he shocked…
Podcast: James Buchanan’s Presidency
Five years ago the Washington Post put out a podcast series on the American presidents. As I work my way through the Civil War and…
Around the Web October 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
This is what I liked best last month. Blogs Fredericksburg National Park Historian John Hennessy retired in September and he got a lot of tributes…
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