Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
Fred Kiger
92 episodes
1 week ago
History is, indeed, a story. With his unique voice and engaging delivery, historian and veteran storyteller Fred Kiger will help the compelling stories of the American Civil War come alive in each and every episode. Filled with momentous issues and repercussions that still resonate with us today, this series will feature events and people from that period and will strive to make you feel as if you were there.
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History is, indeed, a story. With his unique voice and engaging delivery, historian and veteran storyteller Fred Kiger will help the compelling stories of the American Civil War come alive in each and every episode. Filled with momentous issues and repercussions that still resonate with us today, this series will feature events and people from that period and will strive to make you feel as if you were there.
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
1 hour 31 minutes 19 seconds
6 months ago
085 - And The War Began...: Fort Sumter Revisited
About this episode:
It takes a cast to put on a play and our story this day is filled with characters that emoted passions raging from reasoned deliberation to knee-jerk and violent. And not only for the chain of events that led to the first confrontation of the American Civil War but throughout and even beyond the four-year long conflict. Men and women caught in the cross-hairs of history or those that created them. This is the story of the characters and events that led to momentous drama in Charleston Harbor. This is the cast and story of Fort Sumter Revisited.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Robert Anderson
James Buchanan
Winfield Scott
Robert Toombs
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Abner Doubleday
For Further Reading:
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War by Maury Klein
Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Chesnut
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Producer: Dan Irving
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
History is, indeed, a story. With his unique voice and engaging delivery, historian and veteran storyteller Fred Kiger will help the compelling stories of the American Civil War come alive in each and every episode. Filled with momentous issues and repercussions that still resonate with us today, this series will feature events and people from that period and will strive to make you feel as if you were there.
