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The Hunley is described as “a historic time capsule.” Sen. Glenn McConnell discusses using the clues found in the Hunley to piece together what happened the night it sank the U.S.S. Housatonic.
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Dr. James McPherson discusses the reasons and motivations behind what made common soldiers ("Billy Yank" and "Johnny Reb") go fight in the Civil War.
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Dr. Mark Smith analyzes auditory experiences during the Secession Convention, and the sounds and voices in Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War.
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In this segment, Dr. McPherson details the impact of President Abraham Lincoln’s election victory on the South, before the Civil War. Lincoln's victory is seen as one of the key motivations the South...
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What must it have been like to be a crew member on board the C.S.S. Hunley? Dr. Mark Smith opines.
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Walter Edgar talks with Dr. McPherson about the increase in Civil War writings within the past thirty years. Writers have since expanded on aspects like civilian life, experiences for common soldiers...
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Dr. James McPherson, professor emeritus of American History at Princeton University, won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, which has since sold more than six hundred thousand copies...
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In this first segment on The Dogs of War, Dr. Emory Thomas briefly discusses the unintended consequences of secession. Some of those consequences included the implementation of state socialism in some...
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Mary Chesnut’s diary, originally published forty years after the Civil War as Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, is generally acknowledged today as the finest literary work of the Confederacy. Spiced by the...
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Martha Daniels analyzes the albums’ “Panoramic Breadth,” and how Mary Chesnut was an educated woman ‘ahead of her time.’ Along with photos of famous Southerners, the albums also feature photographs of...