Emerging Civil War

As Emerging Civil War prepares to examine "Partnerships & Rivalries" at our 2026 Symposium, we take a look at one of the most important relationships to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Curt Fields and Melissa Winn join ECW Podcast host Chris Mackowski to talk about Grant's relationship with his chief of staff, John Rawlins.  

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The Emerging Civil War Podcast steps back in history to the Revolutionary Era for a discussion with Dr. Marianne Holdzkom about Founding Father John Adams. How do we remember a man who often worried he would not be remembered?  

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Imagine being rounded up on land or captured at sea and then being forced to work on an enemy ship. The practice was called "impressment," and as Neil Chatelain explains, navies during the Civil War—North and South—carried on the infamous tradition.

The Emerging Civil War Podcast is hosted by Chris Mackowski. This episode is brought to you by Civil War Trails, the world’s largest open-air museum, offering more than 1,500 sites across six states. Request a brochure at ⁠⁠⁠⁠civilwartrails.org⁠⁠⁠⁠ to start planning your trip today.

All bets were off and the rules of war were still being written in 1861 in the Trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. In this episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast, ECW contributor Devon Sommerville walks us through the perils of the wild far-west.  

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Merry "Kris"-mas from Emerging Civil War! ECW's Chief Historian Kris White decks the halls with a discussion about Christmastime during the Civil War.

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As the Confederate campaign into Kentucky got underway in the fall of 1862, one of the first clashes came in Richmond, Kentucky—a battle that became one of the most complete Confederate victories of the war. Historian Phil Seyfrit and preservationist George Ridings join the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about the battle and the amazing preservation successes they've had with the battlefield.

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The Emerging Civil War Podcast explores "America's Buried History: Landmines in the American Civil War," with Dr. Ken Rutherford. Rutherford, himself a landmine survivor, is one of the world's leading experts on landmine nonproliferation.

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Proud Hoosier Arie DeYoung, one of the newest contributors to Emerging Civil War, joins the podcast to share his top five favorite stories from Civil War-era Indiana.

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A new biography on Union General Phill Sheridan by Jonathan Noyalas has ECW’s Chris Mackowski on a quest to reconsider the controversial general. In this episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast, he asks historians Kris White, Jim Lewis, and Hampton Newsome to offer their expert assessments. 

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General "Little Phil" Sheridan remains a polarizing figure in Civil War history. However, a new Sheridan biography by Jonathan Noyalas of Shenandoah University invites a reconsideration. Sheridan's achievements and legacy, and the reasons we remember them the way we do, may be more complicated than we realize.

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