Daz is joined by historian and author Abigail Williams to explore the life and enduring legacy of Saint Olga of Kyiv and the Kyivan Rus. Together, they discuss Olga's remarkable life.

Olga served as the regent of Kievan Rus from 945 and held power for approximately eleven years. During the podca...

The Longhunter saga continues with Mark Baker bringing to life the frontier experience. Educational and entertaining with demonstrations in camp life, open fire cooking, speed loading and water crossings. Special features include Wallace Gusler on hunting shirts and Charlie Brown bark tanning dee...

In the papers of Benjamin Franklin Whitehouse of the 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery can be found two poems, both copied in long hand, that reveal in poignant verse the dwindling numbers of Grand Army of the Republic veterans as the years passed.

William White from Woodbury, Kentucky forges & files a fine bench made knife with buffalo slab handles & a cast pewter pommel & hilt. A gifted & talented craftsman who demonstrates in detail the art of making a fine knife.

Daz is joined by The Battlefields of Britain host and historian Mark Weecroft to explore the events leading up to the battle and the devastating opening day, 1 July 1916, which became the bloodiest day in British military history.

The Battle of the Somme was launched on 1 July 1916 as a joint Br...

John Buford, one of the most respected Union generals, displayed grit and determination on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. After the war, one of Buford's staffers, 1st Lt. and Signal Corps officer Aaron B. Jerome, worried that history would forget Buford. So he wrote a letter to promot...

If you know us, you know that we will never turn down the opportunity to read a good book; bonus points if the book checks all our wartime boxes. Jan Cress Dondi's book, The Navigator's Letter, does just that! It turns out, a small town where everyone knows each other is not so small when wartime...

Daz is once again joined by historian of the American Revolutionary War, Mark Maloy, to discuss the Declaration of Independence. As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of this historic document, they explore the events leading to its adoption, its significance in 1776, and its lasting i...

One of the top correspondents in the American press during the Civil War, the Boston Journal's Charles Carleton Coffin, arrived at Gettysburg after the first day's fighting. His description of Pickett's Charge, from the Union side, is vivid, poetic prose.

Longhunter Volume Four includes food items in the settlements, preparing trail rations, belt axes, leggings, campsites & famous one-blanket tricks and more.

How Americans perceived their country underwent a dramatic change during the Civil War, shifting from a view of the United States in the plural to an embrace of a singular national identity. Two essays, one published in 1864 and another in 1865, tell the larger story.

Daz was joined by author and experienced battlefield guide at Gettysburg National Battlefield, Jim Hessler, to discuss Dan Sickles and his involvement at the Battle of Gettysburg, and his involvement on July 2, 1863.

Upon the outbreak of the War in 1861, Sickles became one of the war's most pro...

Captain Edward Carlisle Boynton, a West Point educated veteran of the Mexican War who returned to teach at his alma mater during the Civil War, wrote a paper published in 1864 that called for the establishment of a military Bureau of Photography. He was a man ahead of his time—by more than a half...

In this episode of The Distant Drums Podcast, we are joined by acclaimed military history artist Mark Maritato. Known for his historically accurate Civil War paintings, Mark's artwork has appeared in museums, National Park Service exhibits, documentaries, and private collections around the world....

For three days in October 1865, Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, staff, and friends, toured the battlefield of Gettysburg. For Hancock, walking and riding the grounds in company with historian John Batchelder made the visit a memorable and newsworthy event.

During the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg, Helen Gilson lent her considerable skills as a compassionate caregiver to Union and Confederate wounded. At one point, a patient asked her to sing. The song she chose moved Northern and Southern hearts,

Immediately following the death of Ulysses S. Grant on July 23, 1885, a reporter interviewed former Confederate Gen. James Longstreet at his home outside Gainesville, Ga. Longstreet paid tribute to his late friend and shared memories of war and peace.

Leather tanning is now expanded to demonstrate two traditional methods of tanning deerskin. Mark Baker field dresses a deer, Paul Dinsmore skins it then shows step by step how to brain tan and smoke the hide. Charlie Brown then demonstrates how to bark tan a deerskin. Both segments are taken from...