Civil War

The bugle flourish you might have heard at Preakness is not just used to summon horses to the starting post. In the military its name is “First Call,” and it’s played to warn troops it’s time to assemble.

Dr. Guy McKhann gives us a long range view on Alzheimer’s Disease.

The British are coming! The British are coming! To Gettysburg?

Suffering through succotash at Thanksgiving? Sascha Wolhandler of Sascha’s 527 tells us how roasted vegetables can extra zing to your side.

Maryland Morning Culture Calendar.

This week (August 26th & 27th, 2011) on The Signal…

US Navy veteran Jeremy Johnson made the tough decision to come out to his commanding officer after a ten-year military career under the ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy.  Jeremy talks with us this week about what went into his decision and what the repeal of the policy might mean for the future.

The value of 1861: The Civil War Awakening is in Adam Goodheart’s solid reporting of lesser-known stories about historical figures and why they mattered," writes our reviewer and special producer for this hour, historian and poet Hollis Robbins. Goodheart, director of Washington College’s C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, has contributed posts to Disunion, the Civil War series of The New York Times online.

When an industrial or commercial site is left vacant, what sort of impact can it have on the environment? We talk with two people who work with programs that help to assess and clean up sites in Maryland: the director of the Baltimore Brownfields Initiative, and the program manager for MDE’s Land Restoration Program.  Plus, the Civil War Awakening with author Adam Goodhear.  And -- the Dylans are coming! The Dylans are coming!

The director of the Baltimore Brownfields Initiative and the program manager for MDE’s Land Restoration Program on the environmental impacts of vacant industrial and commercial sites; the Civil War Awakening with "1861" author Adam Goodheart; and Night of 1,000 Dylans host Geoffrey Himes.

Two of the most revered films in cinema history deal with the Civil War. Midday film aficionado and critic Linda De Libero, associate director of film & media studies at Johns Hopkins, looks at Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind and other Civil War films. We’ll also talk with Midday producer intern Haley Deutsch about Maryland’s role in the Civil War.