So said Thaddeus Stevens. In this edition of the Civil War Podcast, on the sesquicentennial of the Confederate Act of Congress that issued the “cotton bonds”, I try to explain how that money was had. To learn more about how the war was financed, click here and download the latest episode of the Civil War Podcast.
Today is the anniversary of Mathew Brady’s death. To learn more about the controversial “photojournalist”, click here and download the latest episode of the Civil War Podcast.
It’s G K Warren’s birthday. I hope you got him something nice. As for myself, I brought him a shiny new podcast. You can download it here.
I’m in under the wire of my deadline, but I can proudly say I’ve checked a resolution off my list already: The first ever Civil War Podcast is ready to go! (Take that, 2013!)
To marvel at my lucid writing and dulcet tones (I know, I know – I am an admitted amateur!) click the Podcast tab in the menu bar, then the January link. Clicking on the “0101 the emancipation proclamation 1” link on the January page will download a copy of the audio file to your hard drive.*
The topic is, as you can no doubt guess, the Emancipation Proclamation, which was signed on this day in 1863. Much like Lincoln, I was slow to get moving on the topic, but as I’m sure Salmon Chase would say of me, “so you see, the woman moves.”
Sadly, I decided to scale back my podcasty undertaking from a daily podcast to a weekly one (frankly, it takes a lot longer to research, write and record a 6 minute podcast than you’d think) but I hope you enjoy the presentation, which includes a piano intro/outro of “We Are Coming Through the Cotton Fields”, performed by my good friend, Tom Nagy. Hopefully his lovely playing will offset my monotone.
*I need to find a solution for embedding the link without incurring hosting surcharges. Podcasting is not a cheap hobby!