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The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion might be the single most important source historians use for understanding the Civil War. But as historian Yael Sternhell explains in her new book, War on Record, the O.R. has a life and a story of its own--and might not always be the objective history people assume.



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160 years ago, William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston were squaring off in northeast Georgia as Sherman's armies drove into the heart of the Deep South. The Atlanta Campaign would prove decisive to the Civil War's outcome. Historian David Powell is chronicling that campaign in his latest body of work and joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to discuss.



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Counterfactual thinking and how it's useful in the field of history. We have two segments in today's podcast. Our guest in part one is Dr. Joel Benington, professor at St. Bonaventure University. Our guest in part two is Dr. Doug Douds of the Army War College.

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The battle of Dranesville—"a Northern Virginia town in the crossfire of a forgotten battle" that is forgotten no longer, thanks to a new book by ECW's Ryan Quint.

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As the spring 1864 Overland Campaign unfolded, the Army of Northern Virginia's high command found itself drawing on a shallower and shallower bench. By mid-May, the army's A-Team was gone, and the B-Team that took its place highlighted just how indispensable Robert E. Lee had become.

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ECW's Neil Chatelain discusses Treasure and Empire: The Panama Route, the West, and the Campaigns to Control America's Mineral Wealth—gold, silver, and copper
—during the Civil War.


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