The Civil War Podcast

As I mentioned yesterday, The Atlantic Monthly is knocking the sesquicentennial celebrations out of the park. This piece on the Gettysburg Cyclorama is fantastic, and is making me greatly regret declining a ticket on both my trips to the park. Four hundred feet long. Fifty feet high. It was art on an astonishing scale. All [...]

Those of us who have seen the Ken Burns series (and I presume that’s all of us) know about these videos, but that doesn’t make them any less of a treat to watch: The 1938 reunion of Civil War veterans at Gettysburg. I’d love to see all the original film from this event. The clips [...]

A documentary from the History Channel that I overlooked this year: A fancified take on the battle of Gettysburg, with bloody cinematic illustration and some pretty appalling acting. It had some promise, but tended to concentrate and linger upon some moments (Amos Humiston, for one, is a long time dying) while entirely ignoring others. If [...]