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Unraveling the war that tore America apart — and still shapes us today.
Blood and Union is a deep-dive history podcast exploring the American Civil War in all its complexity. Across multiple seasons, we uncover the causes, battles, leaders, and legacies of the conflict that defined a nation. From the compromises of the Founding Fathers to the fields of Gettysburg, from the heroism of the 54th Massachusetts to the failures of Reconstruction, we bring you the real stories — detailed, dramatic, and unflinching.
Told in a conversational style with expert insights, Blood and Union combines narrative storytelling, myth-busting, and battle breakdowns to reveal how the war between brothers still echoes through America today.
Jeffrey Newman has been studying the American Civil War for as long as he can remember. What began as childhood curiosity —
devouring biographies of Lincoln, Grant, Lee, and Douglass, poring over maps of campaigns, and collecting volumes of soldiers’ letters and memoirs — grew into a lifelong pursuit of understanding the conflict that defined a nation.
His library now spans every angle of the war: politics, culture, battlefield strategy, and the often-overlooked voices of ordinary men and women. But books alone weren’t enough. Lucien has walked the fields of Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, Chickamauga, and Franklin, standing where soldiers charged and fell, tracing the stones that still bear witness to sacrifice.
That passion and first-hand exploration gave rise to Blood and Union, a podcast dedicated to telling the Civil War in full: its causes, its battles, its aftermath, and the echoes that still shape America today.