civil war virtual symposium. glad to have you with us. my name is chris mackowski. our next speaker today comes to us from our sister site, emerging revolutionary war. mark maloy is a historian with the national parks service. this is the civil war, mark. so we decided we would let him come talk about for sometime because it s as close as we can get in the war to the revolutionary war era. i say all that because mark is a delightful historian and wonderful guy. i wish i could get him to laugh on you. is most distinctive feature is his laugh, which we love to get him pumped up and going. we are delighted to have him today to speak about the first shots of the civil war at fort sumner. mark? thank you very much for that introduction, chris. [laughs] it s a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. we love to have done it in person, but being able to do a digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it as well. as chris mentioned, my main pas
looking for these types in bookstores this week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. go to prize-winning historian james mcpherson presents a history of the use of naval forces by the union and confederate armies during the civil war. now on booktv. he reports on the impact that each navy made during the war, from union naval support of numerous battles, including vicksburg and new orleans to the confederates use of naval mines and the militaristic deployment of a submarine. it s a little under an hour. good evening, everyone. last time we met here on this very stage to talk about the civil war, jim, you are looking to finishing touches on your new book. you are preparing your publication as well. now i have to do this the way they do it on the talk shows. now, james mcpherson war on the waters and craig, the civil war at sea, very handsomely done, are both out. that s good because we get to resume our we barely scratched the sur
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In The Demon of Unrest, author Erik Larson chronicles the five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the start of the Civil War, drawing parallels to today's political climate.