Episode 527: The War Goes North
The Battle of Antietam drives President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. But Robert Lee wins two dramatic victories in this aftermath at the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsvil...
20 Mars 33min
Episode 526: The Seven Days Battles
Two ironclads face off to change the shape of naval warfare while Robert E. Lee emerges from the Seven Days Battles as the lead Confederate commander.Western Civ 2.0 Free Trial
18 Mars 23min
Episode 525: Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh starts as an apparent Confederate victory, but the loss of General Johnston and the resulting chaos dooms the South. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, the Anaconda Plan takes hold.Wester...
16 Mars 17min
Episode 524: Bull Run
When the American Civil War begins, everyone expects a picnic. The Battle of Bull Run erases those false expectations.Western Civ 2.0 Free Trial
15 Mars 18min
Episode 523: A House Divided
From Nat Turner's Rebellion to the Compromise of 1850, Americans did everything they could to avoid the Civil War.... and failed. Western Civ Podcast 2.0 Free Trial
13 Mars 40min
Episode 522: The Sun Never Sets
In the 19th Century, Europeans carved up the globe with devastating consequences.Western Civ 2.0 Free Trial
6 Mars 28min
Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity
In the United States today, there is no faith more dominant than Christianity. In Chosen Land, historian Matthew Avery Sutton chronicles Christians’ five-hundred-year endeavor to turn North America in...
3 Mars 42min
Episode 521: The Irish Potato Famine
When the potato crop failed in 1845 in Ireland, no one at the time knew just how momentous it was. By the close of 1847, Ireland's population, through death and emigration, had fallen by nearly three ...
27 Feb 19min
