The Civil War Monitor

MEADE, GRANT, AND THE ARMY OF THE POTOMACThe 1864 Project is a limited series about the consequential decisions and events that shaped outcomes and affected lives during a pivotal year in the American Civil War. On this episode, we're joined by Jennifer M. Murray, an American military historian at Oklahoma State University. She is the author of On A Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933-2013 (2014) and is working on a book tentatively titled

THE WOMEN'S WARThe 1864 Project is a limited series about the consequential decisions and events that shaped outcomes and affected lives during a pivotal year in the American Civil War. On this episode, we're joined by Stephanie M. McCurry, professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of a number of books on the Civil War era, including Masters of Small Worlds (1997) and, most recently, Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War (2019). We talked about the great

THE WESTERN WARThe 1864 Project is a limited series about the consequential decisions and events that shaped outcomes and affected lives during a pivotal year in the American Civil War. On this episode, we're joined by Steven E. Woodworth, professor of history at Texas Christian University and author of a number of books about the Civil War, including Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns and Manifest Destinies: Westward Expansion and the Civil War. We talked about the

GRANT VS. LEEThe 1864 Project is a limited series about the consequential decisions and events that shaped outcomes and affected lives during a pivotal year in the American Civil War. On this episode, we're joined by Cecily Zander, assistant professor of history at Texas Women's University and author of the recently published book, The Army Under Fire: The Politics of Anti-Militarism in the Civil War Era (Louisiana State University Press, 2024). We talked about the challenges Robert E. Lee and his

THE 1864 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONThe 1864 Project is a limited series about the consequential decisions and events that shaped outcomes and affected lives during a pivotal year in the American Civil War. On this episode, we're joined by Harold Holzer, one of the country’s leading voices on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War-era political culture. Holzer is the chairman of the Lincoln Forum, and his latest book is titled Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration. We talked

This is Terry Johnston, founder and editor-in-chief of The Civil War Monitor, a quarterly magazine that presents a fresh look at America’s greatest conflict. Since 2011, we've been dedicated to sharing the rich and complex story of the Civil War. Now, we're excited to bring that history to you in a new way: through podcasting.Our first series, The 1864 Project, is a podcast about one consequential year in the American Civil War. 1864 is the year that Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee faced off in