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Sept. 9, 2025

Johnston Takes Command: Can One Man Defend Half a Continent?

On September 10, 1861, Confederate president Jefferson Davis appointed General Albert Sidney Johnston to command the sprawling Western Department, a vast military theater that stretched from the Appalachians to the Mississippi River. The decision ca…

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Sept. 2, 2025

A Historian POV – An Interview with Dr. Robert Tracy McKenzie

In this thought-provoking episode, we sit down with Dr. Robert Tracy McKenzie (Arthur F. Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning and Professor of History at Wheaton College), a renowned historian of the American Civil War and American democracy, to exp…

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