Vintage DHP Reissue: Ep. 131: Opening Gambits: The Not-So-Civil War, Part 1

by | Dec 20, 2024

Vintage DHP Reissue: Ep. 131: Opening Gambits: The Not-So-Civil War, Part 1

by | Dec 20, 2024

CJ has recently started making his highly acclaimed series on the US Civil War available as collected volumes of approximately 4-5 hours apiece, with all the ads & announcements/housekeeping stuff from the original episodes cut out.

These can be purchased a la carte from CJ’s Patreon Shop, or you can get access to them at no extra charge if you sign up to support CJ via Patreon for $25/month or more.

For your listening pleasure, here’s the very first episode of that series, first published 8 years ago, in Dec. 2016.

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • The secession of the seven states of the Deep South following the election of Abraham Lincoln
  • The formation of the Confederate States of America, including its constitution
  • The accession to office of the Lincoln Administration
  • The firing on Fort Sumter
  • Sumter’s impact on the North and the South, including the secession of the Upper South
  • Lincoln’s actions to try to keep the Border States in the Union, by any means necessary
  • Preparations for war & early skirmishes
  • The Battle of Manassas (or First Bull Run) and its impact
  • Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (written in Nov. 1861) as portent of the total war-crusade to come

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Born and raised a Florida Man, CJ Killmer holds BA and MA degrees in
history. He taught college history from 2006 to 2022. In 2014, he
started the Dangerous History Podcast as an outlet for his radical
libertarian-revisionist takes on history, and in 2022 he resigned from
his college teaching position in order to pursue podcasting and other
independent content-creation projects full-time, free from the
constraints of conventional academia.

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