ECW News: Battle of Franklin Trust Launches New Scholarly Institute

The Battle of Franklin Trust (BOFT) is launching a new scholarly institute to explore the broad arc of the American Founding through Reconstruction. BOFT Executive Director Eric Jacobson talks with Emerging Civil War’s Chris Mackowski about the new Battle of Franklin Trust Institute.

Tickets for the Institute’s first conference, November 6–7, 2026, are available here.

For more information about Jacobson’s book, The Cheairs Family and Rippa Villa, you can watch a video of that interview here or listen to the podcast version of it here.