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My name is Greg Jackson.

I'm a PhD holding historian, a professor and the creator of history that doesn't suck.

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fractious civil war, tenacious inventors, brave reformers, and more.

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Welcome to the podcast.

First of all, we want to say thanks for your patience while we were moving.

Using those old members episodes the last three weeks was really helpful

since it gave us some breathing space to organize and pack and then move and then start to get settled here in our new place.

But we're excited to be back this week with a new show to share with you guys

And with this show we're heading into the penultimate year of the Civil War

Although back then of course the soldiers and the politicians and the civilians on both sides couldn't look into the future,

so they had no way of knowing that 1864 would be the next to the last year of the

way of the war and that the awful conflict wouldn't end

until the spring of 1865.

One thing we want to stress here at the beginning of this show is that as the

calendar turned from 1863 to 1864 the ability and will of both sides to continue to wage war would be determined as much by

what happened on the home front as by what happened on the front lines. And that's very important, so it bears repeating.

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