Historic Hindsight

The Federal forces secure a foothold in South Carolina while Grant tests his strength in Missouri!

It's 2021 and I just bought a first generation Microsoft Zune! We do a quick unboxing and discuss the brilliantly flawed and failed tech on our first Historic Tech Playlist!

This week there is some good news for the Union and Sherman sets sail with the largest naval force assembled in the U.S.

This week is full of bad news for the Union and Lincoln is now arresting his generals for being so bad that he thinks they are traitors!

Oh that time F.D.R. crapped on the constitution in order to steal your gold, jack up the price, and bail out his rich banking friends at the expense of the U.S. Dollar!

This week is full of naval activity with both sides introducing Iron Plated Warships!

This week it is Union victory on the high sea's of confederate pirate hunting and on land at Fort Pickens!

The story of North Carolina's Robin Hood that robbed from the Confederate Elite and gave to the free people of color. The story of Henry Berry Lowry.

Another month comes and goes with no substantial battles to speak of and a war that has very much grown kind of cold.

It's 1910 and America is facing a meat shortage...the proposed answer, farming hippo's in the Louisiana bayou. Bonus, two of the men behind it were spies assigned to kill each other!