2024 Year in Review: The Emerging Civil War Podcast

We had a year of sensational growth for the Emerging Civil War Podcast.

We started 2024 by dropping an episode every other week or so, but we had so many  projects in the works and so many cool people we wanted to talk to that we soon started popping out episodes more frequently. We made the decision to start going weekly beginning in June. In total, we produced forty-seven (47) episodes over the course of the year, including a couple bonus episodes. We’ll share a full episode list, below, but remember you can always tap into our full archive here.

As you can see, Spotify gave us a good report card!

Most of our podcast episodes are available as videos on the ECW YouTube Page, along with all sorts of other groovy stuff. Don’t forget to subscribe so that you don’t miss a video.

We want to thank our sponsor, Civil War Trails, for their ongoing support. Civil War Trails is the world’s largest outdoor museum, with more than 1,500 sites across six states. You can start planning your trip today by downloading a free brochure at civilwartrails.org.

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2024 Episode Guide

January

• Jan. 11 George Rable and Conflict of Command
• Jan. 17 Civil War Videogaming (with Tyler McGraw)
• Jan. 25 Only a Matter of Time: Crunching the Numbers at Cold Harbor (with Nate Provost)

February

• Feb. 7 The General Meade Society (with Andy Waskie)
• Feb. 14 The Cost of War (with Garry Adelman)
• Feb. 21 “Unforgettables” (with John Waugh)
• Feb. 29 Never Such a Campaign: The Battle of Second Manassas (with Kevin Pawlak and Dan Welch)

March

• Mar. 7 The Army Under Fire (with Cecily Nelson Zander)
• Mar. 19 Incarceration, Occupation, Insurrection, and More (with Angela Zombeck)
• Mar. 21 Living the Civil War Life in Gettysburg (with Michele Hessler)

April

• Apr. 2 Developing Leaders and Inspiring Kids with the Gettysburg Foundation (with Jaimee Umstattd)
• Apr. 17 Hawai’i in the American Civil War (with Paul Taylor)
• Apr. 30 Treasure and Empire in the Civil War (with Neil Chatelain)

May

• May 15 The ANV’s B-Team (with Chris Mackowski)
• May 28 The Battle—and Book!—of Dranesville (with Ryan Quint)

June

• June 4 Counterfactual Thinking (with Joel Benington and Doug Douds)
• June 11 Discussing the Atlanta Campaign (with Dave Powell)
• June 18 War on Record (with Yael Sternhell)
• June 25 Lee and the Seven Days (With Mike Gorman and JoAnna McDonald)

July

• July 2 Lee and Meade After Gettysburg (with Brad Gottfried)
• July 9 The Blood-Tinted Waters of the Shenandoah (With Jonathan Noyalas)
• July 16 Disinformation and History (With Pauline Hoffmann and Cecily Nelson Zander)
• July 23 Missouri: A State Divided (with Tonya McQuade)
• July 30 The Civil War Monitor (with Terry Johnston)

August

• Aug. 6 I Dread the Thought of the Place (with Scott Hartwig, recipient of the 2024 Emerging Civil War Book Award)
• Aug. 13 Longstreet’s Knoxville Campaign (with Ed Lowe)
• Aug. 20 A Conversation with Gordon Jones (recipient of the 2024 Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Public History)
• Aug. 27 The Abolitionist Civil War (with Frank Cirillo)

September

• Sept. 3 The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg (with Tim Smith)
• Sept. 10 The 2nd South Carolina String Band Ain’t (Quite) Dead Yet
• Sept. 17 Armchairing Antietam (with a panel from the Antietam Institute)
• Sept. 24 A Tempest of Iron and Lead at Spotsylvania (with Chris Mackowski and guest host Darren Rawlings)

October

• Oct. 1 Two Views of Lincoln (with Jonathan White)
• Oct. 8 The American Civil War Roundtable of the U.K. (with Mike Somerville and Greg Bayne)
• Oct. 15 Anchors Aweigh w/Adm. David Dixon Porter (with Neil Chatelain and Dwight Hughes)
• Oct. 21 (Bonus) The Rise of Dangerous Civil War Podcast Historians? panel discussion)
• Oct. 22 William Faulkner & the Civil War (with Michael Gorra)
• Oct. 29 A Chat with the Civil War Breakfast Club (With Darin Weeks and Mare Fincher)

November

• Nov. 6 The Election of 1864 (with Zack Fry)
• Nov. 12 Was William T. Sherman Overrated? (panel discussion)
• Nov. 19 Who were the Lead Mine Men? (with Thomas Mack)
• Nov. 26 The Battle of Franklin Trust (with Eric Jacobson)
• Nov. 29 (Bonus) Armchair-Generalling the Battle of Franklin (with Joe Ricci and Lee White)

December

• Dec. 3 The Mexican War/Civil War Connection (with Cecily, Sean, and Frank)
• Dec. 10 Civil War Horses (with Brian Kowell)
• Dec. 17 George H. Thomas (with Conrad Bibens)
• Dec. 24 Civil War Christmas Stories from Emerging Civil War
• Dec. 31 Hell by the Acre at Stones River (with Dan Masters)