Oct 17, 2022

This is the first in a series of episodes concentrating on the most strategically significant campaigns of the Eastern Theater of the war.

In this podcast, we take a close look at the Union and Confederate ends, ways, and means in the climactic campaign of summer 1863 that culminated at Gettysburg. We will learn that...

Oct 11, 2022

This is the third in a series of three episodes concentrating on the strategic-level characteristics, geography, and personalities of the three major theaters of war.

In this podcast, we examine the Trans-Mississippi Theater in light of these considerations and briefly discuss its most important campaigns, with a focus...

Sep 7, 2022

This is the second in a series of three episodes concentrating on the strategic-level characteristics, geography, and personalities of the three major theaters of war. In this podcast, we examine the Western Theater in light of these considerations and briefly discuss its most important campaigns, with a focus...

Aug 24, 2022

This is the first in a series of three episodes concentrating on the strategic-level characteristics, geography, and personalities of the three major theaters of war. In this podcast, we examine the Eastern Theater in light of these considerations and briefly discuss its most important campaigns, with a focus...

Aug 10, 2022

Why the American Civil War occurred has been the subject of much debate and thousands of books since the guns fell silent in 1865.  In this episode, we will decomplicate the complex political, social, and economic background behind the coming of the war, discuss these factors in common-sense terms, and offer a few...