Civil War Talk Radio: Recent Episodes
Gerry Prokopowicz
CWTR is a weekly, hour long, intenet-based talk radio show hosted by Gerry Prokopowicz of East Carolina University. Each week, Gerry interviews leading historians, authors, enthusiasts, etc. on all things Civil War related.
Gene Eric Salecker, author of "Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History"
Earnest Dollar, author of "Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil Wars Final Campaign in North Carolina"
Michael E. Block, author of "The Carnage was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862"
Jim Downs, author of "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine"
Roger Lowenstein, author of "Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War"
Christopher Thrasher, author of "Suffering in the Army of Tennessee: A Social History of the Confederate Army of the Heartland from the Battles for Atlanta to the Retreat from Nashville"
Lorien Foote, author of "Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War"
Meg Groeling, author of "First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the Norths First Civil War Hero"
Jonathan White, author of "A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House" and "To Address You as My Friend: African Americans Letters to Abraham Lincoln"
DeAnne Blanton, founder, Society for Women and the Civil War and co-author of "They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War"
John F. Messner, author of "A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War: Joannes Wyllie of the Steamer Ad-Vance"
Chuck Veit, author of "A Lively Little Battle: New Perspectives on the Battle of Fort Butler, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, 28 July 1863"
Francis Augustin OReilly, author of "The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock"
Deborah Willis, author of "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship"
Caroline E. Janney, author of "Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lees Army after Appomattox"
Charles R. Knight, author of "From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E. Lees Civil War, Day by Day, 1861-1865"
Brad Asher, author of "The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: The Lost Cause and the Legacy of Union General Stephen Burbridge"
Michael K. Brantley, author of "Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate"
Ronald C. White, author of "Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President"
Christopher C. Moore, author of "Apostle of the Lost Cause: J. William Jones, Baptists, and the Development of Confederate Memory"
John David Smith, co-editor of "The Long Civil War: New Explorations of Americas Enduring Conflict"
Gil Hahn, author of "Campaign for the Confederate Coast: Blockading, Blockade Running and Related Endeavors During the American Civil War"
John Reeves, author of "A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee"
John Douglas Ashton, author of "William Barksdale, CSA: A Biography of the United States Congressman and Confederate Brigadier General"
Stephen Cushman, author of "The Generals Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today"
Edward Longacre, author of "Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg"
James Oakes, author of "The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution"
Mark Bielski, author of "A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy: The Fall of New Orleans, 1862"
Col. Jeffrey D. McCausland and Col. Thomas Vossler, authors of "Battle Tested, Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders"
Lauren Thompson, author of "Friendly Enemies: Soldier Fraternization throughout the American Civil War"
John Matteson, author of "A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation"
Laurence Donald Desotell, author of "The Captured, the Sick, and the Dead: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Randall"
Brian Jordan, author of "A Thousand May Fall: Life, Death, and Survival in the Union Army"
LeeAnna Keith, author of "When It Was Grand: A Radical Republican History of the Civil War"
James P. Byrd, author of "A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War"
Cynthia Nicoletti, author of "Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis"
Brian Taylor, author of "Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War"
Shannon Brown, about The Lincoln Funeral Train Project, and Reignette Chilton, author of "Lincolns Greatcoat: The Unlikely Odyssey of a Presidential Relic"
James Gindlesperger, author of "Bullets and Bandages: The Aid Stations and Field Hospitals at Gettysburg"
Kenneth Noe, author of "The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War"
Timothy B. Smith, author of "The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863"
Thavolia Glymph, author of "The Womens Fight: The Civil Wars Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation"
David Dixon, author of "Radical Warrior: August Willichs Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General"
Gary Gallagher, author of "The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis"
Mark Dunkelman, author of "Gettysburgs Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston"
Niels Eichhorn, author of "Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War"
Sharon S. MacDonald, co-author of "Carrying the Colors: The Life and Legacy of Medal of Honor Recipient Andrew Jackson Smith"
William L. Barney, author of "Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy"
Kenneth R. Rutherford, author of "Americas Buried History: Land Mines in the Civil War"
Rachel Lance, author of "In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine"
J. Matthew Gallman, co-editor of "Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War"
Christopher Klein, author of "When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans who for Irelands Freedom"
Zachery Fry, author of "Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac"
Brian P. Luskey, author of "Men is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America"
Robert M. (Bert) Dunkerly, author of "To the Bitter End: Appomattox, Bennett Place, and the Surrenders of the Confederacy"
Evan Kutzler, author of "Living By Inches: The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons"
Heather Cox Richardson, author of "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America"
Timothy Silver, co-author of "An Environmental History of the Civil War" (co-author with Judkin Browning)
Sheridan "Butch" Barringer, author of "Custers Gray Rival: the Life of Confederate Major General Thomas Lafayette Rosser"
Adam Domby, author of "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory"
Michael Bonner, author of "Confederate Political Economy: Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation"
Gary Morgan, author of "Andersonville Raiders: Yankee versus Yankee in the Civil Wars Most Notorious Prison Camp"
Steve Norder, author of "Lincoln Takes Command: The Campaign to Seize Norfolk and the Destruction of the CSS Virginia"
Megan Kate Nelson, author of "The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West"
Christian Keller, author of "The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy"
James M. Scythes, author of "This Will Make a Man of Me: The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War." The story of Second Lieutenant Thomas James Howell.
Kevin M. Levin, author of "Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth"
James Robbins Jewell, editor of "On Duty in the Pacific Northwest during the Civil War: Correspondence and Reminiscences of the First Oregon Cavalry Regiment"
Philip Gerard, author of "The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina"
John Grady, author of "Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography: A Biography, 1806-1873"
S.C. Gwynne, author of "Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War"
Hampton Newsome, author of "The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May 1864"
James J. Broomall, author of "Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers"
Matthew Fox-Amato, author of "Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America"
A. Gibert Kennedy, aurthor of "A South Carolina Upcountry Saga: The Civil War Letters of Barham Bobo Foster and His Family, 1860-1863"
Jonathan M. Steplyk, author of "Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat"
Timothy Orr, author of "Sharpshooters Made a Grand Record This Day: Combat on the Skirmish Line at Gettysburg on July 3."
Nina Silber, author of "This War Aint Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America"
David Silkenat, author of "Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War"
Gary Gallagher, editor of "Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians"
Joan Cashin, author of "War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War"
Amy Murrell Taylor, author of "Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil Wars Slave Refugee Camps"
Bradley Gottfried, author of "Hell Comes to Southern Maryland: The Story of Point Lookout Prison and Hammond General Hospital"
Michael Shaffer, author of "In Memory of Self and Comrades: Thomas Wallace Colleys Recollections of Civil War Service in the 1st Virginia Cavalry"
Susannah Ural, author of "Hoods Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacys Most Celebrated Unit"
Ryan T. Quint, author of "Determined to Stand and Fight: The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864"
Jason Phillips, author of "Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future"
Shauna Devine, author of "Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science"
Elizabeth Leonard, author of "Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Communitys Struggle Toward Freedom"
Caroline E. Janney, editor of "Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia"
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, author of "The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War"
Anna Holloway, co-author of "Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War"
Janet Croon, editor of "The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865"
Alexander B. Rossino, author of "Six Days in September: A novel of Lees Army in Maryland, 1862"
A. Wilson Greene, author of "A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg. Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater"
Kristopher A. Teters, author of "Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War."
Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of "Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology"
Jeffrey Hunt, author of "Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14-31, 1863"
Jennifer Murray, author of "On a Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933 to 2013"
Elizabeth Parnicza, historian and site manager, Chancellorsville Visitor Center, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP and Tim Talbot, Director of Education, Pamplin Historical Park and The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier. Recorded at the Civil War Institute, Gettysburg, PA, June 24, 2018
Dr. Christopher Stowe is Professor of Military History and Department Head, War Studies Department at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.
Kirk Savage, author of "Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America"
Daryl Black, Executive Director of the Seminary Ridge Museum (recorded on site, Gettysburg, PA, June 23, 2018)
William G. Thomas, author of "The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War and the Making of Modern America"
John Reeves, author of "The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon"
Thomas Huntington, author of "Maine Roads to Gettysburg: How Joshua Chamberlain, Oliver Howard, and 4,000 Men from the Pine Tree State Helped Win the Civil Wars Bloodiest Battle."
Robert J. Cook, author or "Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865"
Michael Hardy, author of "General Lee s Immortals: The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865"
Berry Craig, author of "Kentuckys Rebel Press: Pro-Confederate Media and the Secession Crisis"
William A. Penn, author of "Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County" with Darryl Smith, Cynthiana Battlefields Foundation.
James S. Pula, author of "Under the Crescent Moon with the XI Corps in the Civil War. Vol. 1: From the Defenses of Washington to Chancellorsville 1862-1863"
Michael Fitzgerald, author of "Reconstruction in Alabama: From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South"
Eric Lee Smith, designer of Battle Hymn: Gettysburg and Pea Ridge and other Civil War games
Paula Whitacre, author of "A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilburs Struggle for Purpose"
Daniel Crofts, author of "Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union"
Michael Hill, co-author of "The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas"
Carleton Young, author of "Voices from the Attic: The Williamstown Boys in the Civil War"
Cate Lineberry, author of "Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls Escape from Slavery to Union Hero"
Mark Will-Weber, author of "Muskets and Applejack: Spirits, Soldiers, and the Civil War"
We start our 14th season, and 400th show, with Steven E. Sodergren, author of "The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns: Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864-1865"
Timothy B. Smith, author of "Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson"
Brian McCarthy, jazz composer, to discuss his "The Better Angels of Our Nature" jazz project
David Powell, discussing his 3rd book in his series on the Battle of Chickamauga, "Barren Victory: The Retreat in Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863"
Michael McCarthy, author of "Confederate Waterloo: The Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865 and the Controversy that Brought Down a General"
Jonathan W. White, author of "Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep and Dreams During the Civil War"
Judy Giesberg, author of "Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality"
Dennis Frye, of the National Park Service and author of "September Suspense: Lincolns Union in Peril"
Andrew S. Bledsoe, author of "Citizen-officers: The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War"
Carol Reardon, author of "With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other: The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North"
Christopher Phillips, author of "The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border"
Chuck Raasch, author of "Imperfect Union: A Fathers Search for His Son in the Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg"
George Rable, author of "Damn Yankees!: Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South"
Hampton Newsome, author of "Richmond Must Fall : The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864"
Matt Hulbert, author of "The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West."
Dan Welch, author of "The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863" (co-authored with Robert Orrison)
Tiya Miles, author of "Tales From the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era"
Ronald S. Coddington, author of "Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Union and Confederate Sailors"
M. R. Cordell, author of "Courageous Women of the Civil War: Soldiers, Spies, Medics, and More"
G. Ward Hubbs, author of "Guarding Greensboro: A Confederate Company in the Making of a Southern Community"
Paul Kahan, author of "Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincolns Scandalous Secretary of War"
Victoria Bynum, author of "The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies" and the movie "Free State of Jones"
David Mowery, author of "Morgans Great Raid: The Remarkable Expedition from Kentucky to Ohio"
James Huffstodt, author of "Lincolns Bold Lion: The Life and Times of Brigadier General Martin Davis Hardin"
Debra Reddin Van Tuyll, author of "The Confederate Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War"
Mark Dunkelman, author of "Patrick Henry Jones: Irish American, Civil War General, and Gilded Age Politician"
Lorien Foote, author of "The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army"
Stephen Davis, author of "A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5-July 18, 1864"
Mark Bielski, author of "Sons of the White Eagle in the American Civil War: Polish Officers on Both Sides of the War Between the States."
Bridget Ford, author of "Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland."
Candice Hooper, author of "Lincolns Generals Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War - for Better and for Worse."
Thomas F. Army, Jr., author of "Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War."
Lisa Tendrich Frank, author of "The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Shermans March"
Steven Towne, author of "Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War: Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in Americas Heartland."
Peter Carlson, author of "Junius and Alberts Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey"
Eric J. Wittenberg, author of "The Devils to Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour."
Sheridan Barringer, author of "Fighting for General Lee: Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade"
Chuck Veit, author of "Sea Miner: Major E. B. Hunts Civil War Rocket Torpedo, 1862-1863"
Thomas Kernan, author of the dissertation entitled "Sounding The Mystic Chords of Memory: Musical Memorials for Abraham Lincoln, 1865-2009"
Christopher Dickey, author of "Our Man in Charleston: Britains Secret Agent in the Civil War South."
Bill Backus, author of "A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9-19, 1863."
Gregory P. Downs, author of "After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War"
Col. Matt Spruill, author of "The US Army War College Guide the Battle of Chickamauga" and many others.
Brian James Egen, co-author of "Michigan at Antietam: The Wolverine States Sacrifice on Americas Bloodiest Day"
Nick K. Adams, editor of "My Dear Wife and Children: Civil War Letters from a 2nd Minnesota Volunteer"
Wade Sokolosky, author of "To Prepare for Shermans Coming: The Battle of Wises Forks March 1865"
Thomas Heard Robertson, Jr., author of "Resisting Sherman: A Confederate Surgeons Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865"
Betty Brennan, President of Taylor Studios, Inc., Exhibit Designers for the Lincoln Heritage Museum, Lincoln, IL
J. Matthew Gallman, author of "Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front."
Kenneth A. Griffiths, author of "Seven Days in July: A Historic Account of the Battle of Atlanta"
Jonathan W. White, author of "Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln."
Kent Masterson Brown, author of "Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign." Mr. Brown is also the principal of the "Witnessing History LLC" film production company.
Richard Sommers, author of "Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg, The Battles of Chaffin's Bluff and Poplar Spring Church, September 29 - October 2, 1864."
John Hennessy, Chief Historian and Chief of Interpretation at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Parks and author of books on both Battles at Bull Run-Manassas.
Tom Parson, author of "Work for Giants: The Campaign and Battle of Tupelo/Harrisburg, Mississippi, June-July 1864"
Matt Hulbert, author of "The Civil War Guerilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History Memory, and Myth."
Adam Dean, author of "An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era."
John J. Fox III, author of "Stuart's Finest Hour: The Ride Around McClellan, June 1862."
Julianne and David Mehegan, editors of "Record of a Soldier in the Late War: The Confederate Memoir of John Wesley Bone"
Patrick A. Lewis, author of "For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War"
Thomas J. Brown, author of "Civil War Canon: Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina."
David A. Powell, author of "The Chickamauga Campaign - A Mad Irregular Battle: From the Crossing of Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22 - September 19, 1863"
Aaron Astor, author of "Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri"
Evan Jones, co-editor of "Gateway to the Confederacy: New Perspectives on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, 1862-1863"
Larry Babits, co-editor of "From These Honored Dead: Historical Archaeology of the American Civil War"
Stephen Cushman, author of "Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War" (Lincoln, Whitman, Sherman, Bierce, Chamberlain)
Nicole Etcheson, author of "A Generation at War: the Civil War era in a Northern Community"
Caroline E. Janney, author of "Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation"
William N. Still, Jr., author of "Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads" and Civil War Maritime Archaeology.
Brigadier General John "Jack" Mountcastle (Retired), about Civil War Battlefield Tours.
Rick Sauers, author of "The Fishing Creek Confederacy A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance."
John Barr, author of "Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present."
William Blair, author of "With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era."
Rachel A. Shelden, author of "Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War."
Randall Fuller, author of "From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature."
Linda Barnickel, author of "Milliken's Bend: A Civil War Battle in History and Memory."
Kathryn Shively Meier, author of "Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia."
James B. Conroy, author of "Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865."
Robert Conner, author of "General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind Juneteenth"
Corey Recko, author of "A Spy for the Union: The Life and Execution of Timothy Webster."
Robert I. Girardi, author of "The Civil War Generals: Comrades, Peers, Rivals-In Their Own Words."
Rae Katherine Eighmey, author of "Abraham Lincoln in the Kitchen: A Culinary View of Lincoln's Life and Times."
Richard Slotkin, author of "The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution."
Gerry Prokopowicz, author of "Did Lincoln Own Slaves?" Gerry discusses Lincoln and other topics in this special call-in show where listeners get to talk directly with Gerry and ask any questions they may have about the Lincoln, the Civil War and more.
Frank Varney, author of "General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War."
Kristopher White, author of "Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, May 3, 1863"
James Oakes, author of "Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865"
Eric Jacobson, author of "Baptism of Fire: 44th Missouri, 175th Ohio and 183rd Ohio at the Battle of Franklin"
Charles W. Calhoun, author of "From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age" and working on a new book about Ulysses S. Grant.
David S. Cecelski, author of "Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War"
Philip Leigh, Annotator and Editor of Sam Watkins classic memoir "Company Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show."
Jake Boritt, filmmaker, "The Gettysburg Story," with appearance by Gabor Boritt, "The Gettysburg Gospel"
Jonathan Wells, author of "A House Divided: The Civil War and Nineteenth Century America."
Bland Simpson, author of "Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt and the Coming of the Civil War."
Rhonda Kohl, author of "The Prairie Boys Go To War: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry, 1861-1865"
Brian Jordan, author of "Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory."
Ernest Dollar, Director, City of Raleigh Museum, on The End of the War in Central North Carolina.
Tony Horowitz, author of "Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War."
Barbara Gannon, author of "The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic."
Anthony Gaughan, author of "The Last Battle of the Civil War, United States Versus Lee, 1861-1883"
Michael Weeks, author of "The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide: 10 Weekend Tours and More than 400 Sites, from Antietam to Zagonyi's Charge"
Ellen Gruber Garvey, author of "Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance."
Gail Stephens, author of "Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War."
Douglas Egerton, auhtor of "Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War."
David Silkenat, authot of "Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina."
George Kundahl, author of "The Bravest of the Brave: The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur"
Christian McWhirter, author of "Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War"
Glenn David Brasher, author of "The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom."
Larry Kreiser, author of "Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac"
Mark E. Neely, Jr., author of "Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War."
Andre Fleche, author of "The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict."
Leonard Lanier, assistant curator at The Museum of the Albemarle, in Elizabeth City, NC, speaks to us about Confederate Major-General Bryan Grimes, the last Major-General appointed in the Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War.
Adam Arenson, author of "The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War." PLEASE NOTE: The MP3 file from World Talk Radio is of poor sound quality, with major distortion of voices. Impediments of War has attempted to reduce the distortion in this alternate download.
J. Michael Cobb, author of "The Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia."
Andrea Foroughi, author of "Go If You Think It Your Duty: A Minnesota Couple's Civil War Letters."
Tom D. Crouch, Senior Curator, Division of Aeronautics, at the Smithsonian Institute National Air and Space Museum and author of "Lighter Than Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships."
Robert Kirby, National Park Service Superintendent at Gettysburg National Military Park.
Robert Wynstra, author of "The Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson."
Anne Marshall, author of "Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State."
Wallace Hettle, author of "Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory."
James Martin, author of "Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America."
Robert Hunt, author of "The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory."
Gregory Urwin, who raised a company of volunteers to portray Union soldiers for the movie "Glory" and author of "Custer Victorious" on George Custer's Civil War career.
Daniel W. Crofts, author of "A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and 'The Diary of a Public Man'"
(for a consolidated 5 part original article from The North American Review in 1879 - The Diary of a Public Man)
Josh Howard, Research Historian for the Office of Archives and History, part of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, talks with Gery to discuss his current project of counting the dead of North Carolinian's who fought in the Civil War. The research will be used to provide statistics for an upcoming "North Carolina Civil War Atlas."
Jennifer Weber, author of "Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North."
Judkin Browning, author of, "Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina."
Joe B. Fulton, author of, "The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature."
Steven R. Boyd, author of, "Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers."
Scott Mingus, author of "Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863."
Mark Geiger, author of "Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865."
Dennis Boman, author of "Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri: Balancing Freedom and Security."
Mark A. Weitz, author of "More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army" and "The Confederacy On Trial: The Piracy And Sequestration Cases Of 1861," joins Gerry for CWTR's 200th show.
John Marszalek, Director of U.S. Grant Papers, biographer of Sherman and Halleck joins Gerry to update us on the status of the Grant Papers and other projects.
Peter Carmichael is the Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. Amongst other topics, Gerry and Peter discuss the role of the Institute in High School and Undergraduate education.
Marc Egnal, author of "Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War." Visit the Author's Website for additional information.
Elizabeth Brown Prior, author of "Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters."
James Oakes, author of 'The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics.'
Dr. Kenneth W. Noe, author of 'Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861'
James W. Loewen, author of 'The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The 'Great Truth' about the 'Lost Cause''
Cynthia Wachtell, author of 'War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914.'
Suzy Barile, author or 'Undaunted Heart The True Story of a Southern Belle and a Yankee General.'
From the publisher of the book, 'In Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle and a Yankee General, author Suzy Barile, a great-great-granddaughter of Ella Swain and Smith Atkins, tells their story, separating facts from the elaborate embellishments the famous courtship and marriage have taken on over the generations. Interwoven throughout Undaunted Heart are excerpts from Ella's never-before-published letters to her parents that reveal a loving marriage that transcended differences and scandal. '
Mark A. Lause, author of 'Race and Radicalism in the Union Army' joins Gerry for the Season 7 Premiere. Among the topics discussed are American Indians fighting for the Union.
Thomas Clemens, editor of Ezra Carman's manuscript 'The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Volume 1, South Mountain.'
David Powell, author of 'The Maps of Chickamauga: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 - September 23, 1863.'
Charles Knight, author of 'Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Campaign, May 1864.'
Craig Symonds, Chief Historian of the USS Monitor Center, Professor at the US Naval Academy and author of 'Lincoln and His Admirals.'
Lorraine McConaghy, author of 'Warship under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West.'
Donna D. McCreary, author of 'Fashionable First Lady: The Victorian Wardrobe of Mary Lincoln.'
Howard Jones, author of 'Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations.'
Carol Berkin, author of 'Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant.'
Christian G. Samito, author of 'Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship During the Civil War Era.'
Orville Vernon Burton, author of 'The Age of Lincoln,' joins Gerry on Lincoln's Birthday.
Guy R. Hasegawa, author of 'Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine.'
Daniel E. Sutherland, author of 'A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War.'
Christian Keller, of the US Army Command and Staff College and author of 'Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory.'
Caroline E. Janney, author of 'Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause.'
From NPS website: 'Ted Alexander is the Historian at Antietam National Battlefield. He is the author, editor and contributor to seven books about Antietam and other aspects of the Civil War. He has also written more than 200 articles and book reviews for publications such as Civil War Times Illustrated, Blue and Gray Magazine, Maryland Historical Magazine and The Washington Times He lectures frequently for organizations such The Civil War Preservation Trust, Johns Hopkins University's Odyssey Program and The Smithsonian Associates.'
George S Burkhardt, author of 'Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War.'
Elizabeth R. Varon, author of 'Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859.'
Judith Giesberg, author of 'Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front.'
Steven Stanley, cartographer for the book 'The Complete Gettysburg Guide: Walking and Driving Tours of the Battlefield, Town, Cemeteries, Field Hospital Sites, and other Topics of Historical Interest.'
James Hessler, author of 'Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg.'
Rod Andrew Jr., biographer of Wade Hampton and author of 'Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer.'
Mark Hughes, author of 'The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages.'
Charles B. Dew, author of 'Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War.'
Craig A. Warren, author of 'Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction.'
The late David Herbert Donald passed one week prior to this show. He was a Lincln scholar. A mentor and friend of Gerry Prokopowicz. Gerry talks about the life and works of David Herbert Donald.
Michael F. Nugent, co-author of 'One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863.'
Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn, authors of 'Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War.'
Michael D. Pierson, author of 'Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans.'
Dr. Edna Greene Medford, of Howard University and co-author of 'The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views,' joins Gerry to discuss parallels between Lincoln's time and our own time.
Lance Herdegen, author of 'Those Damned Black Hats!: The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign.'
Gerry discusses The State of Civil War History and events surrounding Lincoln in the past year and to celebrate the paperback release of Gerry's book, 'Did Lincoln Own Slaves.'
Part 1 - Matthew Borowick, Civil War Roundtable columnist for the Civil War News, joins Gerry to discuss Roundtables around the country
Part 3 - Matthew Borowick, Civil War Roundtable columnist for the Civil War News, joins Gerry to discuss Roundtables around the country
Part 2 - Matthew Borowick, Civil War Roundtable columnist for the Civil War News, joins Gerry to discuss Roundtables around the country
Part 1 - Edward L. Ayer, author of 'What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History' and President of the University of Richmond.
Part 3 - Edward L. Ayer, author of 'What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History' and President of the University of Richmond.
Part 2 - Edward L. Ayer, author of 'What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History' and President of the University of Richmond.
Part 3 - Gregg S. Clemmer, author of 'Old Alleghany: The Life and Wars of General Ed Johnson.'
Part 1 - Gregg S. Clemmer, author of 'Old Alleghany: The Life and Wars of General Ed Johnson.'
Part 2 - Gregg S. Clemmer, author of 'Old Alleghany: The Life and Wars of General Ed Johnson.'
Part 1 - Matthew Pinsker, author of 'Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home.'
Part 3 - Matthew Pinsker, author of 'Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home.'
Part 2 - Matthew Pinsker, author of 'Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home.'
Part 1 - Joseph W. Stahl, author of 'Identification Discs Of Union Soldiers In The Civil War: A Complete Classification Guide and Illustrated History.'
Part 3 - Joseph W. Stahl, author of 'Identification Discs Of Union Soldiers In The Civil War: A Complete Classification Guide and Illustrated History.'
Part 2 - Joseph W. Stahl, author of 'Identification Discs Of Union Soldiers In The Civil War: A Complete Classification Guide and Illustrated History.'
Part 3 - Darrell Collins, author of 'Major General Robert E Rodes Of The Army Of Northern Virginia: A Biography.'
Part 1 - Darrell Collins, author of 'Major General Robert E Rodes Of The Army Of Northern Virginia: A Biography.'
Part 2 - Darrell Collins, author of 'Major General Robert E Rodes Of The Army Of Northern Virginia: A Biography.'
Part 1 - James M. Schmidt, author of 'Lincoln's Labels: America's Best Known Brands and the Civil War.'
Part 2 - James M. Schmidt, author of 'Lincoln's Labels: America's Best Known Brands and the Civil War.'
Part 3 - James M. Schmidt, author of 'Lincoln's Labels: America's Best Known Brands and the Civil War.'
Part 3 - Peter Cozzens, author of 'Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign.'
Part 2 - Peter Cozzens, author of 'Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign.'
Part 1 - Peter Cozzens, author of 'Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign.'
Part 2 - Gary Ecelbarger, author of 'Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester.'
Part 3 - Gary Ecelbarger, author of 'Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester.'
Part 1 - Gary Ecelbarger, author of 'Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester.'
Part 1 - Russell S. Bonds, author of 'Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor.'
Part 3 - Russell S. Bonds, author of 'Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor.'
Part 2 - Russell S. Bonds, author of 'Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor.'
Part 1 - Jim Campi, Policy and Communications Director for the Civil War Preservation Trust joins Gerry to discuss preservation issues.
Part 3 - Jim Campi, Policy and Communications Director for the Civil War Preservation Trust joins Gerry to discuss preservation issues.
Part 2 - Jim Campi, Policy and Communications Director for the Civil War Preservation Trust joins Gerry to discuss preservation issues.
Part 2 - Gerry looks back at the history of the Lincoln Museum, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The museum was started in 1928 and closed in 2008. Gerry had worked at the museum for 9 years.
Part 3 - Gerry looks back at the history of the Lincoln Museum, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The museum was started in 1928 and closed in 2008. Gerry had worked at the museum for 9 years.
Part 1 - Gerry looks back at the history of the Lincoln Museum, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The museum was started in 1928 and closed in 2008. Gerry had worked at the museum for 9 years.
Part 1 - Gary Gallagher, author of 'Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War' and numerous other Civil War Books.
Part 3 - Gary Gallagher, author of 'Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War' and numerous other Civil War Books.
Part 2 - Gary Gallagher, author of 'Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War' and numerous other Civil War Books.
Part 1 - author of 'Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri Bushwhacker.'
Part 3 - author of 'Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri Bushwhacker.'
Part 2 - author of 'Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri Bushwhacker.'
Part 1 - Richard M. Reid, author of 'Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era.'
Part 2 - Richard M. Reid, author of 'Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era.'
Part 3 - Richard M. Reid, author of 'Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era.'
Part 1 - William Barney joins Gerry to discuss why some of the more moderate slave holding states joined the rebellion.
Part 2 - William Barney joins Gerry to discuss why some of the more moderate slave holding states joined the rebellion.
Part 3 - William Barney joins Gerry to discuss why some of the more moderate slave holding states joined the rebellion.
Part 2 - Michael A. Flannery, author of many books discussing Civil War medical practices and editor of 'Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall.'
Part 3 - Michael A. Flannery, author of many books discussing Civil War medical practices and editor of 'Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall.'
Part 1 - Michael A. Flannery, author of many books discussing Civil War medical practices and editor of 'Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall.'
Part 3 - Michael A. Palmer, author of 'Lee Moves North: Robert E. Lee on the Offensive.'
Part 1 - Michael A. Palmer, author of 'Lee Moves North: Robert E. Lee on the Offensive.'
Part 2 - Michael A. Palmer, author of 'Lee Moves North: Robert E. Lee on the Offensive.'
Part 3 - John G. Zinn, author of 'The Mutinous Regiment: The Thirty-third New Jersey In The Civil War.'
Part 2 - John G. Zinn, author of 'The Mutinous Regiment: The Thirty-third New Jersey In The Civil War.'
Part 1 - John G. Zinn, author of 'The Mutinous Regiment: The Thirty-third New Jersey In The Civil War.'
Part 2 - Victoria E. Bynum, author of 'The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War.'
Part 1 - Victoria E. Bynum, author of 'The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War.'
Part 3 - Victoria E. Bynum, author of 'The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War.'
Part 2 - Patrick Schroeder, park historian with the National Park Service at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, joins Gerry to discuss all things Appomattox.
Part 3 - Patrick Schroeder, park historian with the National Park Service at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, joins Gerry to discuss all things Appomattox.
Part 1 - Patrick Schroeder, park historian with the National Park Service at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, joins Gerry to discuss all things Appomattox.
Part 3 - Timothy S. Good, of the National Park Service, author of 'Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Making of a President' and editor of 'We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts'
Part 1 - Timothy S. Good, of the National Park Service, author of 'Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Making of a President' and editor of 'We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts'
Part 2 - Timothy S. Good, of the National Park Service, author of 'Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Making of a President' and editor of 'We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts'
Part 1 - Victoria E. Ott, PhD, author of 'Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War.'
Part 2 - Victoria E. Ott, PhD, author of 'Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War.'
Part 3 - Victoria E. Ott, PhD, author of 'Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War.'
Part 2 - Stephen W. Berry II, author of 'All that Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South'
Part 1 - Stephen W. Berry II, author of 'All that Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South'
Part 3 - Stephen W. Berry II, author of 'All that Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South'
Part 2 - This is the show of all shows....we finally get to learn more about Gerry and his various works on the Civil War. This show marks the kick-off of the 'Did Lincoln Own Slaves' worldwide book tour.
Part 3 - This is the show of all shows....we finally get to learn more about Gerry and his various works on the Civil War. This show marks the kick-off of the 'Did Lincoln Own Slaves' worldwide book tour.
Part 1 - This is the show of all shows....we finally get to learn more about Gerry and his various works on the Civil War. This show marks the kick-off of the 'Did Lincoln Own Slaves' worldwide book tour.
Part 3 - Robin Ansell, Archivist for the American Civil War Roundtable UK, joins Gerry to discuss this unique British Roundtable group.
Part 2 - Robin Ansell, Archivist for the American Civil War Roundtable UK, joins Gerry to discuss this unique British Roundtable group.
Part 1 - Robin Ansell, Archivist for the American Civil War Roundtable UK, joins Gerry to discuss this unique British Roundtable group.
Part 2 - President Lincoln's Cottage Director Frank Milligan joins Gerry to discuss his book, 'Washington in Crisis: The Wartime Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865' and President Lincoln's Cottage.
PLEASE NOTE: Only Segment 2 is available from World Talk Radio's site.
Part 1 - President Lincoln's Cottage Director Frank Milligan joins Gerry to discuss his book, 'Washington in Crisis: The Wartime Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865' and President Lincoln's Cottage.
PLEASE NOTE: Only Segment 2 is available from World Talk Radio's site.
Part 3 - President Lincoln's Cottage Director Frank Milligan joins Gerry to discuss his book, 'Washington in Crisis: The Wartime Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865' and President Lincoln's Cottage.
PLEASE NOTE: Only Segment 2 is available from World Talk Radio's site.
Part 1 - Jeffrey Richman, author of "Final Camping Ground: Civil War Veterans at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery."
Part 2 - Jeffrey Richman, author of "Final Camping Ground: Civil War Veterans at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery."
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Part 3 - Jeffrey Richman, author of "Final Camping Ground: Civil War Veterans at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery."
Part 3 - Jacqueline Glass Campbell, author of 'When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front.'
Part 2 - Jacqueline Glass Campbell, author of 'When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front.'
Part 1 - Jacqueline Glass Campbell, author of 'When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front.'
Part 2 - James McPherson joins Civil War Talk Radio for his Second appearance on the show.
Part 3 - James McPherson joins Civil War Talk Radio for his Second appearance on the show.
Part 1 - James McPherson joins Civil War Talk Radio for his Second appearance on the show.
Part 2 - Kirk C. Jenkins, author of 'The Battle Rages Higher: The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry'
Part 3 - Kirk C. Jenkins, author of 'The Battle Rages Higher: The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry'
Part 1 - Kirk C. Jenkins, author of 'The Battle Rages Higher: The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry'
Part 3 - Stewart Bennett, editor of "Struggle for the Life of the Republic: A Civil War Narrative (Illustrated)."
Part 2 - Stewart Bennett, editor of "Struggle for the Life of the Republic: A Civil War Narrative (Illustrated)."
Part 1 - Stewart Bennett, editor of "Struggle for the Life of the Republic: A Civil War Narrative (Illustrated)."
Part 3 - Sam Houston State University professor and author, Susannah Bruce joins Gerry to discuss her current book, 'The Harp and The Eagle'
Part 2 - Sam Houston State University professor and author, Susannah Bruce joins Gerry to discuss her current book, 'The Harp and The Eagle'
Part 1 - Sam Houston State University professor and author, Susannah Bruce joins Gerry to discuss her current book, 'The Harp and The Eagle'
Part 2 - Author and President of College of Southern Maryland, Bradley M. Gottfried joins Gerry to discuss his current book, 'The Maps of Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863' and his other works.
Part 3 - Author and President of College of Southern Maryland, Bradley M. Gottfried joins Gerry to discuss his current book, 'The Maps of Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863' and his other works.
Part 1 - Author and President of College of Southern Maryland, Bradley M. Gottfried joins Gerry to discuss his current book, 'The Maps of Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863' and his other works.
Part 3 - Gordan Rhea, Civil War historian and author of 'In The Footsteps Of Grant and Lee,' joins Jerry this week. Not only is Gordan Rhea author of four massive volumes on the Overland Campaign, but just released a 'Coffee Table' book covering the entire campaign with many beautiful photographs and maps of almost unknown locations currently still existing in the Virginia area.
Part 1 - Gordan Rhea, Civil War historian and author of 'In The Footsteps Of Grant and Lee,' joins Jerry this week. Not only is Gordan Rhea author of four massive volumes on the Overland Campaign, but just released a 'Coffee Table' book covering the entire campaign with many beautiful photographs and maps of almost unknown locations currently still existing in the Virginia area.
Part 2 - Gordan Rhea, Civil War historian and author of 'In The Footsteps Of Grant and Lee,' joins Jerry this week. Not only is Gordan Rhea author of four massive volumes on the Overland Campaign, but just released a 'Coffee Table' book covering the entire campaign with many beautiful photographs and maps of almost unknown locations currently still existing in the Virginia area.
Part 1 - Author of, 'History Buffs Guide To The Civil War', Thomas R. Flagel joins Jerry this week for an in depth discussion on many 'Top Ten' categories of the Civil War.
Part 2 - Author of, 'History Buffs Guide To The Civil War', Thomas R. Flagel joins Jerry this week for an in depth discussion on many 'Top Ten' categories of the Civil War.
Part 3 - Author of, 'History Buffs Guide To The Civil War', Thomas R. Flagel joins Jerry this week for an in depth discussion on many 'Top Ten' categories of the Civil War.
Part 2 - Speaking with Dr. Laurence Schiller, of Northwestern University, about Cavalry in the Civil War. Dr. Schiller is author of numerous articles on Cavalry and spends an hour with Gerry to discuss the evalution of cavalry tactics during the Civil War. Dr. Schiller is also the Fencing coach for Northwestern University and discusses the common aspect between fencing and use of the cavalry saber.
Part 1 - Speaking with Dr. Laurence Schiller, of Northwestern University, about Cavalry in the Civil War. Dr. Schiller is author of numerous articles on Cavalry and spends an hour with Gerry to discuss the evalution of cavalry tactics during the Civil War. Dr. Schiller is also the Fencing coach for Northwestern University and discusses the common aspect between fencing and use of the cavalry saber.
Part 3 - Speaking with Dr. Laurence Schiller, of Northwestern University, about Cavalry in the Civil War. Dr. Schiller is author of numerous articles on Cavalry and spends an hour with Gerry to discuss the evalution of cavalry tactics during the Civil War. Dr. Schiller is also the Fencing coach for Northwestern University and discusses the common aspect between fencing and use of the cavalry saber.
Part 3 - Scott C. Patchan, author of 'Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign,' gives an in depth narrative of events in the Shenandoah Valley during the summer of 1864. Robert E, Lee directed Jubal Early to distract Union forces in the Valley to keep pressure off Lee's defending forces in Richmond and Petersburg.
Part 1 - Scott C. Patchan, author of 'Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign,' gives an in depth narrative of events in the Shenandoah Valley during the summer of 1864. Robert E, Lee directed Jubal Early to distract Union forces in the Valley to keep pressure off Lee's defending forces in Richmond and Petersburg.
Part 2 - Scott C. Patchan, author of 'Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign,' gives an in depth narrative of events in the Shenandoah Valley during the summer of 1864. Robert E, Lee directed Jubal Early to distract Union forces in the Valley to keep pressure off Lee's defending forces in Richmond and Petersburg.
Part 3 - David M. Owens, author of 'The Devil's Topographer: Ambrose Bierce and the American War Story.'
Part 1 - David M. Owens, author of 'The Devil's Topographer: Ambrose Bierce and the American War Story.'
Part 2 - David M. Owens, author of 'The Devil's Topographer: Ambrose Bierce and the American War Story.'
Part 1 - Aaron Sheehan-Dean, editor of 'Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War.'
Part 3 - Aaron Sheehan-Dean, editor of 'Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War.'
Part 2 - Aaron Sheehan-Dean, editor of 'Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War.'
Part 2 - John Hennessy, of the National Park Service, talks to Gerry about the Park Service's Re-Interpretations of Civil War battlefields.
Part 3 - John Hennessy, of the National Park Service, talks to Gerry about the Park Service's Re-Interpretations of Civil War battlefields.
Part 1 - John Hennessy, of the National Park Service, talks to Gerry about the Park Service's Re-Interpretations of Civil War battlefields.
Part 1 - George C. Bradley, author of 'From Conciliation to Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin'
Part 3 - George C. Bradley, author of 'From Conciliation to Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin'
Part 2 - George C. Bradley, author of 'From Conciliation to Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin'
Part 3 - Dr. Michael P. Gray, author of The Business of Captivity: Elmira and its Civil War Prison, looks at activities in and outside the walls of the North's deadliest prison camp.
Part 2 - Dr. Michael P. Gray, author of The Business of Captivity: Elmira and its Civil War Prison, looks at activities in and outside the walls of the North's deadliest prison camp.
Part 1 - Dr. Michael P. Gray, author of The Business of Captivity: Elmira and its Civil War Prison, looks at activities in and outside the walls of the North's deadliest prison camp.
Part 2 - Michael W. Kauffman, author of American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies, clears up myths and misconceptions surrounding the assassination.
Part 1 - Michael W. Kauffman, author of American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies, clears up myths and misconceptions surrounding the assassination.
Part 3 - Michael W. Kauffman, author of American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies, clears up myths and misconceptions surrounding the assassination.
Part 2 - Dr. Albert A. Nofi, author of The Civil War Notebook and editor of 'Knapsack' for North and South magazine, shares a wide range of fascinating facts.
Part 3 - Dr. Albert A. Nofi, author of The Civil War Notebook and editor of 'Knapsack' for North and South magazine, shares a wide range of fascinating facts.
Part 1 - Dr. Albert A. Nofi, author of The Civil War Notebook and editor of 'Knapsack' for North and South magazine, shares a wide range of fascinating facts.
Part 3 - William W. Freehling, author of 'THE ROAD TO DISUNION Volume Two. Secessionists Triumphant: 1854-1861'
Part 2 - William W. Freehling, author of 'THE ROAD TO DISUNION Volume Two. Secessionists Triumphant: 1854-1861'
Part 1 - William W. Freehling, author of 'THE ROAD TO DISUNION Volume Two. Secessionists Triumphant: 1854-1861'
Part 2 - O. Edward Cunningham wrote a dissertation on Shiloh more than forty years ago; Dr. Gary D. Joiner, co-editor of Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 has brought it to the light of day.
Part 3 - O. Edward Cunningham wrote a dissertation on Shiloh more than forty years ago; Dr. Gary D. Joiner, co-editor of Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 has brought it to the light of day.
Part 1 - O. Edward Cunningham wrote a dissertation on Shiloh more than forty years ago; Dr. Gary D. Joiner, co-editor of Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 has brought it to the light of day.
Part 2 - Alan Archambault, artist and Curator, Fort Lewis Military Museum, inspires a new generation of Civil War students.
Part 3 - Alan Archambault, artist and Curator, Fort Lewis Military Museum, inspires a new generation of Civil War students.
Part 1 - Alan Archambault, artist and Curator, Fort Lewis Military Museum, inspires a new generation of Civil War students.
Part 2 - Dr. Ethan Rafuse, author of McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union, re-evaluates the Young Napoleon.
Part 3 - Dr. Ethan Rafuse, author of McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union, re-evaluates the Young Napoleon.
Part 1 - Dr. Ethan Rafuse, author of McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union, re-evaluates the Young Napoleon.
Part 2 - Theodore Savas, of Savas Beatie LLC, talks about the business of publishing of books on the Civil War and other historical subjects.
Part 3 - Theodore Savas, of Savas Beatie LLC, talks about the business of publishing of books on the Civil War and other historical subjects.
Part 1 - Theodore Savas, of Savas Beatie LLC, talks about the business of publishing of books on the Civil War and other historical subjects.
Part 2 - Thomas P. Nanzig, editor of The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman: Lt. Robert T. Hubard, Jr., reveals what life was really like among Lee's cavaliers.
Part 3 - Thomas P. Nanzig, editor of The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman: Lt. Robert T. Hubard, Jr., reveals what life was really like among Lee's cavaliers.
Part 1 - Thomas P. Nanzig, editor of The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman: Lt. Robert T. Hubard, Jr., reveals what life was really like among Lee's cavaliers.
Part 1 - Dr. Chandra Manning, author of the forthcoming What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War talks about the motivations of the blue and gray.
Part 3 - Dr. Chandra Manning, author of the forthcoming What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War talks about the motivations of the blue and gray.
Part 2 - Dr. Chandra Manning, author of the forthcoming What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War talks about the motivations of the blue and gray.
Part 2 - Peter S. Carmichael, author of 'The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion'
Part 1 - Peter S. Carmichael, author of 'The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion'
Part 3 - Peter S. Carmichael, author of 'The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion'
Part 2 - Dr. Bruce Levine, author of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War, challenges neo-Confederate mythology.
Part 1 - Dr. Bruce Levine, author of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War, challenges neo-Confederate mythology.
Part 3 - Dr. Bruce Levine, author of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War, challenges neo-Confederate mythology.
Part 2 - Mark A. Smith and Wade Sokolosky: OCOKA at Averasboro; Mark A. Smith, author of "No Such Army Since The Days Of Julius Caesar: Sherman's Carolinas Campaign From Fayetteville To Averasboro."
Part 3 - Mark A. Smith and Wade Sokolosky: OCOKA at Averasboro; Mark A. Smith, author of "No Such Army Since The Days Of Julius Caesar: Sherman's Carolinas Campaign From Fayetteville To Averasboro."
Part 1 - Mark A. Smith and Wade Sokolosky: OCOKA at Averasboro; Mark A. Smith, author of "No Such Army Since The Days Of Julius Caesar: Sherman's Carolinas Campaign From Fayetteville To Averasboro."
Part 1 - Joseph R. Reinhart, editor/translator of August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen, describes the career of the 32nd Indiana infantry regiment.
Part 2 - Joseph R. Reinhart, editor/translator of August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen, describes the career of the 32nd Indiana infantry regiment.
Part 3 - Joseph R. Reinhart, editor/translator of August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen, describes the career of the 32nd Indiana infantry regiment.
Part 3 - Cavalry genius? War criminal? Both? The war produced no character more controversial than the man Grant called 'that devil, Forrest.' Dr. Brian Steel Wills, author of The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest offers his views.
Part 1 - Cavalry genius? War criminal? Both? The war produced no character more controversial than the man Grant called 'that devil, Forrest.' Dr. Brian Steel Wills, author of The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest offers his views.
Part 2 - Cavalry genius? War criminal? Both? The war produced no character more controversial than the man Grant called 'that devil, Forrest.' Dr. Brian Steel Wills, author of The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest offers his views.
Part 1 - In Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words, Dr. Douglas Wilson argues that for Abraham Lincoln, the pen really was mightier than the sword.
Part 2 - In Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words, Dr. Douglas Wilson argues that for Abraham Lincoln, the pen really was mightier than the sword.
Part 3 - In Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words, Dr. Douglas Wilson argues that for Abraham Lincoln, the pen really was mightier than the sword.
Part 3 - J. David Petruzzi, co-author of Plenty of Blame to Go Around: J.E.B. Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg, discusses the real reasons why Stuart acted as he did in June 1863.
Part 1 - J. David Petruzzi, co-author of Plenty of Blame to Go Around: J.E.B. Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg, discusses the real reasons why Stuart acted as he did in June 1863.
Part 2 - J. David Petruzzi, co-author of Plenty of Blame to Go Around: J.E.B. Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg, discusses the real reasons why Stuart acted as he did in June 1863.
Part 1 - Dr. John C. Rumm is the Executive Director of the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, the oldest Civil War museum in the country, and one with a very promising future.
Part 2 - Dr. John C. Rumm is the Executive Director of the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, the oldest Civil War museum in the country, and one with a very promising future.
Part 3 - Dr. John C. Rumm is the Executive Director of the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, the oldest Civil War museum in the country, and one with a very promising future.
Part 1 - Steve Courtney, with his co-editor Peter Messent, have produced a fine volume of previously unpublished letters from a Civil War chaplain, The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins
Part 3 - Steve Courtney, with his co-editor Peter Messent, have produced a fine volume of previously unpublished letters from a Civil War chaplain, The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins
Part 2 - Steve Courtney, with his co-editor Peter Messent, have produced a fine volume of previously unpublished letters from a Civil War chaplain, The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins
Part 1 - Dr. Michael Burlingame has made a reputation as an indefatigable researcher of previously unmined collections related to Abraham Lincoln. He has edited numerous reprints of 19th century Lincoln sources, written the controversial The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, and is at work on a monumental four-volume Lincoln biography.
Part 2 - Dr. Michael Burlingame has made a reputation as an indefatigable researcher of previously unmined collections related to Abraham Lincoln. He has edited numerous reprints of 19th century Lincoln sources, written the controversial The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, and is at work on a monumental four-volume Lincoln biography.
Part 3 - Dr. Michael Burlingame has made a reputation as an indefatigable researcher of previously unmined collections related to Abraham Lincoln. He has edited numerous reprints of 19th century Lincoln sources, written the controversial The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, and is at work on a monumental four-volume Lincoln biography.
Part 2 - Dr. Michael W. Schaefer, author of Just What War Is: The Civil War Writings of DeForest and Bierce
Part 1 - Dr. Michael W. Schaefer, author of Just What War Is: The Civil War Writings of DeForest and Bierce
Part 3 - Dr. Michael W. Schaefer, author of Just What War Is: The Civil War Writings of DeForest and Bierce
Part 3 - James Percoco, author of Divided We Stand: Teaching About Conflict in U.S. History, has made a career out of bringing the Civil War and other eras to life for his students.
Part 2 - James Percoco, author of Divided We Stand: Teaching About Conflict in U.S. History, has made a career out of bringing the Civil War and other eras to life for his students.
Part 1 - James Percoco, author of Divided We Stand: Teaching About Conflict in U.S. History, has made a career out of bringing the Civil War and other eras to life for his students.
Part 2 - Dr. Eric T. Dean, esq., author of Shook Over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War, describes the phenomenon of psychiatric casualties in the Civil War.
Part 1 - Dr. Eric T. Dean, esq., author of Shook Over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War, describes the phenomenon of psychiatric casualties in the Civil War.
Part 3 - Dr. Eric T. Dean, esq., author of Shook Over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War, describes the phenomenon of psychiatric casualties in the Civil War.
Part 1 - Dr. Stephen R. Taaffe, author of Commanding the Army of the Potomac, argues that leadership issues were endemic in that underachieving organization.
Part 2 - Dr. Stephen R. Taaffe, author of Commanding the Army of the Potomac, argues that leadership issues were endemic in that underachieving organization.
Part 3 - Dr. Stephen R. Taaffe, author of Commanding the Army of the Potomac, argues that leadership issues were endemic in that underachieving organization.
Part 1 - Robert Hicks, author of The Widow of the South, talks about the remarkable fate of the Confederates killed at the battle of Franklin
Part 3 - Robert Hicks, author of The Widow of the South, talks about the remarkable fate of the Confederates killed at the battle of Franklin
Part 2 - Robert Hicks, author of The Widow of the South, talks about the remarkable fate of the Confederates killed at the battle of Franklin
Part 3 - Dr. Phillip Shaw Paludan, author of 'A People's Contest': The Union and Civil War 1861-1865, discusses his work, covering topics from the Lincoln White House to the Shelton Laurel Massacre.
Part 2 - Dr. Phillip Shaw Paludan, author of 'A People's Contest': The Union and Civil War 1861-1865, discusses his work, covering topics from the Lincoln White House to the Shelton Laurel Massacre.
Part 1 - Dr. Phillip Shaw Paludan, author of 'A People's Contest': The Union and Civil War 1861-1865, discusses his work, covering topics from the Lincoln White House to the Shelton Laurel Massacre.
Part 1 - David Lee Poremba drew on years of experience at the Burton Historical Collection to create If I Am Found Dead: Michigan Voices from the Civil War.
Part 2 - David Lee Poremba drew on years of experience at the Burton Historical Collection to create If I Am Found Dead: Michigan Voices from the Civil War.
Part 3 - David Lee Poremba drew on years of experience at the Burton Historical Collection to create If I Am Found Dead: Michigan Voices from the Civil War.
Part 1 - Dr. Jonathan Sarris, author of A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South, discusses the war that Georgians fought among themselves.
Part 3 - Dr. Jonathan Sarris, author of A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South, discusses the war that Georgians fought among themselves.
Part 2 - Dr. Jonathan Sarris, author of A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South, discusses the war that Georgians fought among themselves.
Part 1 - Dr. David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory presents the 1913 50-year reunion at Gettysburg in a new light.
Part 2 - Dr. David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory presents the 1913 50-year reunion at Gettysburg in a new light.
Part 3 - Dr. David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory presents the 1913 50-year reunion at Gettysburg in a new light.
Part 3 - Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the first two time winner of the Lincoln Prize, for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America.
Part 2 - Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the first two time winner of the Lincoln Prize, for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America.
Part 1 - Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the first two time winner of the Lincoln Prize, for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America.
Part 2 - Dr. Harry S. Stout, author of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, defends his controversial work.
Part 1 - Dr. Harry S. Stout, author of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, defends his controversial work.
Part 3 - Dr. Harry S. Stout, author of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, defends his controversial work.
Part 2 - Researcher/blogger/high school teacher Kevin Levin discusses the Battle of the Crater.
Part 3 - Researcher/blogger/high school teacher Kevin Levin discusses the Battle of the Crater.
Part 1 - Researcher/blogger/high school teacher Kevin Levin discusses the Battle of the Crater.
Part 2 - One of the paths that led to the Civil War was a hidden one: the Underground Railroad. Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America, reveals the reality behind a much mythologized historical phenomenon.
Part 1 - One of the paths that led to the Civil War was a hidden one: the Underground Railroad. Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America, reveals the reality behind a much mythologized historical phenomenon.
Part 3 - One of the paths that led to the Civil War was a hidden one: the Underground Railroad. Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America, reveals the reality behind a much mythologized historical phenomenon.
Part 1 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 3 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 2 - Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
Part 3 - Brigadier General Harold W. Nelson (ret), former Chief of Military History for the U.S. Army, has led hundreds of 'staff rides' across Civil War battlefields, for everyone from ROTC students to civilian corporate leaders. Listen in and hear what they learn.
Part 1 - Brigadier General Harold W. Nelson (ret), former Chief of Military History for the U.S. Army, has led hundreds of 'staff rides' across Civil War battlefields, for everyone from ROTC students to civilian corporate leaders. Listen in and hear what they learn.
Part 2 - Brigadier General Harold W. Nelson (ret), former Chief of Military History for the U.S. Army, has led hundreds of 'staff rides' across Civil War battlefields, for everyone from ROTC students to civilian corporate leaders. Listen in and hear what they learn.
Part 3 - If Isaac Stevens hadn't been killed at Chantilly, he might have commanded the Army of the Potomac at Antietam. Find out more about Stevens and the other remarkable characters behind the Port Royal expedition of 1862 with Patrick Brennan, author of Secessionville: Assault on Charleston.
Part 2 - If Isaac Stevens hadn't been killed at Chantilly, he might have commanded the Army of the Potomac at Antietam. Find out more about Stevens and the other remarkable characters behind the Port Royal expedition of 1862 with Patrick Brennan, author of Secessionville: Assault on Charleston.
Part 1 - If Isaac Stevens hadn't been killed at Chantilly, he might have commanded the Army of the Potomac at Antietam. Find out more about Stevens and the other remarkable characters behind the Port Royal expedition of 1862 with Patrick Brennan, author of Secessionville: Assault on Charleston.
Part 2 - Everybody knows that Lincoln suffered from depression, right? Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, takes closer look at what we really know about Lincoln's temperament.
Part 3 - Everybody knows that Lincoln suffered from depression, right? Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, takes closer look at what we really know about Lincoln's temperament.
Part 1 - Everybody knows that Lincoln suffered from depression, right? Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, takes closer look at what we really know about Lincoln's temperament.
Part 3 - You've seen him in movies, TV, and on the cover of Confederates in the Attic. Now he researches and produces his own Civil War films. Spend a fascinating hour with Robert Lee Hodge.
Part 2 - You've seen him in movies, TV, and on the cover of Confederates in the Attic. Now he researches and produces his own Civil War films. Spend a fascinating hour with Robert Lee Hodge.
Part 1 - You've seen him in movies, TV, and on the cover of Confederates in the Attic. Now he researches and produces his own Civil War films. Spend a fascinating hour with Robert Lee Hodge.
Part 3 - Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her prize-winning study of Lincoln and his Cabinet, Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
Part 2 - Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her prize-winning study of Lincoln and his Cabinet, Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
Part 1 - Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her prize-winning study of Lincoln and his Cabinet, Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
Part 3 - Beyond the CSS Hunley, the Civil War saw the invention of other submersible warships, and Dr. James P. Delgado has found one of them intact.
Part 2 - Beyond the CSS Hunley, the Civil War saw the invention of other submersible warships, and Dr. James P. Delgado has found one of them intact.
Part 1 - Beyond the CSS Hunley, the Civil War saw the invention of other submersible warships, and Dr. James P. Delgado has found one of them intact.
Part 1 - Dr. Thomas J. Brown, author of The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration, analyzes the meaning of monuments
Part 2 - Dr. Thomas J. Brown, author of The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration, analyzes the meaning of monuments
Part 3 - Dr. Thomas J. Brown, author of The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration, analyzes the meaning of monuments
Part 3 - James A. Morgan III, author of A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry
Part 1 - James A. Morgan III, author of A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry
Part 2 - James A. Morgan III, author of A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry
Part 3 - The legendary Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service.
Part 2 - The legendary Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service.
Part 1 - The legendary Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service.
Part 2 - Out of the more than one hundred people who make all or part of their living portraying Abraham Lincoln, none does it better than Richard 'Fritz' Klein.
Part 1 - Out of the more than one hundred people who make all or part of their living portraying Abraham Lincoln, none does it better than Richard 'Fritz' Klein.
Part 3 - Out of the more than one hundred people who make all or part of their living portraying Abraham Lincoln, none does it better than Richard 'Fritz' Klein.
Part 3 - Mark Bradley, author of This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place, discusses the North Carolina campaign of 1865.
Part 2 - Mark Bradley, author of This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place, discusses the North Carolina campaign of 1865.
Part 1 - Mark Bradley, author of This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place, discusses the North Carolina campaign of 1865.
Part 2 - Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker of Wide Awake Films describe the process of making Civil War battle documentary videos.
Part 1 - Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker of Wide Awake Films describe the process of making Civil War battle documentary videos.
Part 3 - Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker of Wide Awake Films describe the process of making Civil War battle documentary videos.
Part 1 - Unlike the soldiers themselves, author Thomas Lowry, MD, is happy to discuss The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War. Most CWTR programs unavoidably make reference to the massive bloodshed that marked the Civil War. This program discusses not only violence but also sex, using plain language. Educators and parents may wish to preview this show before recommending it to students or children.
Part 2 - Unlike the soldiers themselves, author Thomas Lowry, MD, is happy to discuss The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War. Most CWTR programs unavoidably make reference to the massive bloodshed that marked the Civil War. This program discusses not only violence but also sex, using plain language. Educators and parents may wish to preview this show before recommending it to students or children.
Part 3 - Unlike the soldiers themselves, author Thomas Lowry, MD, is happy to discuss The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War. Most CWTR programs unavoidably make reference to the massive bloodshed that marked the Civil War. This program discusses not only violence but also sex, using plain language. Educators and parents may wish to preview this show before recommending it to students or children.
Part 1 - Dr. Michael Vorenberg, author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, The Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment, analyzes the politics of the 13th Amendment.
Part 2 - Dr. Michael Vorenberg, author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, The Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment, analyzes the politics of the 13th Amendment.
Part 3 - Dr. Michael Vorenberg, author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, The Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment, analyzes the politics of the 13th Amendment.
Part 3 - Dr. Richard P. McMurry, author of The Fourth Battle of Winchester and Two Great Rebel Armies, presents a fresh approach to Civil War history.
Part 2 - Dr. Richard P. McMurry, author of The Fourth Battle of Winchester and Two Great Rebel Armies, presents a fresh approach to Civil War history.
Part 1 - Dr. Richard P. McMurry, author of The Fourth Battle of Winchester and Two Great Rebel Armies, presents a fresh approach to Civil War history.
Part 2 - Dr. Elizabeth Leonard, author of Lincoln's Avengers and All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies, covers topics from the Lincoln assassination to the participation of women soldiers
Part 3 - Dr. Elizabeth Leonard, author of Lincoln's Avengers and All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies, covers topics from the Lincoln assassination to the participation of women soldiers
Part 1 - Dr. Elizabeth Leonard, author of Lincoln's Avengers and All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies, covers topics from the Lincoln assassination to the participation of women soldiers
Part 3 - Seventy-five years before the Lincoln Presidential Museum opened in Springfield, a small jewel of a museum was launched in northeast Indiana. Carolyn Texley, Director of Collections at Fort Wayne's Lincoln Museum, talks about the challenges of preserving the Lincoln story.
Part 2 - Seventy-five years before the Lincoln Presidential Museum opened in Springfield, a small jewel of a museum was launched in northeast Indiana. Carolyn Texley, Director of Collections at Fort Wayne's Lincoln Museum, talks about the challenges of preserving the Lincoln story.
Part 1 - Seventy-five years before the Lincoln Presidential Museum opened in Springfield, a small jewel of a museum was launched in northeast Indiana. Carolyn Texley, Director of Collections at Fort Wayne's Lincoln Museum, talks about the challenges of preserving the Lincoln story.
Part 2 - In 1865, Jefferson Davis was the leader of a failed experiment in creating a new nation, hated by his enemies and despised by his own people for losing the war. By the first decade of the 20th century, Davis had joined the beloved Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as the third member of the Confederate pantheon. Donald E. Collins, author of The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis describes how this transformation took place.
Part 1 - In 1865, Jefferson Davis was the leader of a failed experiment in creating a new nation, hated by his enemies and despised by his own people for losing the war. By the first decade of the 20th century, Davis had joined the beloved Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as the third member of the Confederate pantheon. Donald E. Collins, author of The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis describes how this transformation took place.
Part 3 - In 1865, Jefferson Davis was the leader of a failed experiment in creating a new nation, hated by his enemies and despised by his own people for losing the war. By the first decade of the 20th century, Davis had joined the beloved Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as the third member of the Confederate pantheon. Donald E. Collins, author of The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis describes how this transformation took place.
Part 3 - If you haven't been to Gettysburg in a while, you may not realize how much has changed, much for the better! Listen to an audio snapshot of Gettysburg as the town prepares to commemorate the anniversary of Lincoln's Address, with host Gerry Prokopowicz and guest David Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-election and the End of Slavery.
Part 1 - If you haven't been to Gettysburg in a while, you may not realize how much has changed, much for the better! Listen to an audio snapshot of Gettysburg as the town prepares to commemorate the anniversary of Lincoln's Address, with host Gerry Prokopowicz and guest David Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-election and the End of Slavery.
Part 2 - If you haven't been to Gettysburg in a while, you may not realize how much has changed, much for the better! Listen to an audio snapshot of Gettysburg as the town prepares to commemorate the anniversary of Lincoln's Address, with host Gerry Prokopowicz and guest David Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-election and the End of Slavery.
Part 1 - Based on years of archival research, as well as personal experience as an embedded journalist with US forces in Iraq, Richard F. Miller has written a new kind of regimental history that focuses on the social and class identities of officers in a unit made up of equal parts Harvard-educated Boston brahmins and working class immigrants from Ireland and the German states. How these disparate groups united under the pressure of war and the leadership of their officers is the dramatic story Miller tells in Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Part 2 - Based on years of archival research, as well as personal experience as an embedded journalist with US forces in Iraq, Richard F. Miller has written a new kind of regimental history that focuses on the social and class identities of officers in a unit made up of equal parts Harvard-educated Boston brahmins and working class immigrants from Ireland and the German states. How these disparate groups united under the pressure of war and the leadership of their officers is the dramatic story Miller tells in Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Part 3 - Based on years of archival research, as well as personal experience as an embedded journalist with US forces in Iraq, Richard F. Miller has written a new kind of regimental history that focuses on the social and class identities of officers in a unit made up of equal parts Harvard-educated Boston brahmins and working class immigrants from Ireland and the German states. How these disparate groups united under the pressure of war and the leadership of their officers is the dramatic story Miller tells in Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Part 1 - After writing or editing more than thirty books on the war, University of Virginia history professor Gary W. Gallagher has become one of the leading scholars in the field. Hear his views on why the South lost, how battlefields should be interpreted, and other controversial topics.
Part 2 - After writing or editing more than thirty books on the war, University of Virginia history professor Gary W. Gallagher has become one of the leading scholars in the field. Hear his views on why the South lost, how battlefields should be interpreted, and other controversial topics.
Part 3 - After writing or editing more than thirty books on the war, University of Virginia history professor Gary W. Gallagher has become one of the leading scholars in the field. Hear his views on why the South lost, how battlefields should be interpreted, and other controversial topics.
Part 2 - One way that the internet has revolutionized communication is by allowing anyone to publish his or her thoughts to an unlimited audience through a weblog. Dimitri Rogov's blog, Civil War Bookshelf, is a model of provocative commentary on current issues in Civil War history.
Part 1 - One way that the internet has revolutionized communication is by allowing anyone to publish his or her thoughts to an unlimited audience through a weblog. Dimitri Rogov's blog, Civil War Bookshelf, is a model of provocative commentary on current issues in Civil War history.
Part 3 - One way that the internet has revolutionized communication is by allowing anyone to publish his or her thoughts to an unlimited audience through a weblog. Dimitri Rogov's blog, Civil War Bookshelf, is a model of provocative commentary on current issues in Civil War history.
Part 3 - Hostages taken and killed; civilians murdered to terrorize others; military prisoners subject to abuse... not in the 21st century Middle East, but in the United States, 1861-1865. Lonnie Speer, author of Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War and War of Vengeance: Act of Retaliation Against Civil War POWs, reveals some harsh realities of the war.
Part 2 - Hostages taken and killed; civilians murdered to terrorize others; military prisoners subject to abuse... not in the 21st century Middle East, but in the United States, 1861-1865. Lonnie Speer, author of Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War and War of Vengeance: Act of Retaliation Against Civil War POWs, reveals some harsh realities of the war.
Part 1 - Hostages taken and killed; civilians murdered to terrorize others; military prisoners subject to abuse... not in the 21st century Middle East, but in the United States, 1861-1865. Lonnie Speer, author of Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War and War of Vengeance: Act of Retaliation Against Civil War POWs, reveals some harsh realities of the war.
Part 1 - Few Civil War battles had more impact, and yet were more quickly forgotten, than Perryville. Kenneth Noe, author of Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, details the campaign and battle, and discusses why its importance faded from view.
Part 3 - Few Civil War battles had more impact, and yet were more quickly forgotten, than Perryville. Kenneth Noe, author of Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, details the campaign and battle, and discusses why its importance faded from view.
Part 2 - Few Civil War battles had more impact, and yet were more quickly forgotten, than Perryville. Kenneth Noe, author of Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, details the campaign and battle, and discusses why its importance faded from view.
Part 1 - As an artistic format, the 32-page picture book looks simple, but using it to bring history to children is a challenge. Karen B. Winnick, author of Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers and Cassie's Sweet Berry Pie, both set in the Civil War era, describes how she uses words and illustrations to communicate important truths in historical settings.
Part 2 - As an artistic format, the 32-page picture book looks simple, but using it to bring history to children is a challenge. Karen B. Winnick, author of Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers and Cassie's Sweet Berry Pie, both set in the Civil War era, describes how she uses words and illustrations to communicate important truths in historical settings.
Part 3 - As an artistic format, the 32-page picture book looks simple, but using it to bring history to children is a challenge. Karen B. Winnick, author of Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers and Cassie's Sweet Berry Pie, both set in the Civil War era, describes how she uses words and illustrations to communicate important truths in historical settings.
Part 1 - Living in Gettysburg, historian Thomas Desjardin discovered that many of the most well-known stories of the battle are badly distorted versions of the original events. In These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory Desjardin describes how the postwar efforts of John Bachelder, Dan Sickles, and others helped to create the modern view of what happened at the battle. He raises the disturbing question: is it possible ever to know what really happened in the past?
Part 2 - Living in Gettysburg, historian Thomas Desjardin discovered that many of the most well-known stories of the battle are badly distorted versions of the original events. In These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory Desjardin describes how the postwar efforts of John Bachelder, Dan Sickles, and others helped to create the modern view of what happened at the battle. He raises the disturbing question: is it possible ever to know what really happened in the past?
Part 3 - Living in Gettysburg, historian Thomas Desjardin discovered that many of the most well-known stories of the battle are badly distorted versions of the original events. In These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory Desjardin describes how the postwar efforts of John Bachelder, Dan Sickles, and others helped to create the modern view of what happened at the battle. He raises the disturbing question: is it possible ever to know what really happened in the past?
Part 1 - Did the blockade make a difference? Why did Union forces spend so much effort to take Wilmington, N.C., in the final year of the war? Wilmington native and UNC-Wilmington professor Chris Fonvielle, author of The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope, analyzes the important and fascinating events that marked the war in North Carolina in 1864-65.
Part 3 - Did the blockade make a difference? Why did Union forces spend so much effort to take Wilmington, N.C., in the final year of the war? Wilmington native and UNC-Wilmington professor Chris Fonvielle, author of The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope, analyzes the important and fascinating events that marked the war in North Carolina in 1864-65.
Part 2 - Did the blockade make a difference? Why did Union forces spend so much effort to take Wilmington, N.C., in the final year of the war? Wilmington native and UNC-Wilmington professor Chris Fonvielle, author of The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope, analyzes the important and fascinating events that marked the war in North Carolina in 1864-65.
Part 3 - Mark H. Dunkelman has spent a lifetime researching the story of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. It's a fascinating story, stretching from Chancellorsville to Chattanooga to the March to the Sea. In Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment, Dunkelman goes beyond antiquarian detail-mongering to show how the 154th NY became the world in which its members lived, and sometimes died, shedding new light on the importance of the regiment as a community.
Part 2 - Mark H. Dunkelman has spent a lifetime researching the story of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. It's a fascinating story, stretching from Chancellorsville to Chattanooga to the March to the Sea. In Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment, Dunkelman goes beyond antiquarian detail-mongering to show how the 154th NY became the world in which its members lived, and sometimes died, shedding new light on the importance of the regiment as a community.
Part 1 - Mark H. Dunkelman has spent a lifetime researching the story of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. It's a fascinating story, stretching from Chancellorsville to Chattanooga to the March to the Sea. In Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment, Dunkelman goes beyond antiquarian detail-mongering to show how the 154th NY became the world in which its members lived, and sometimes died, shedding new light on the importance of the regiment as a community.
Part 3 - 'LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT.' This was the ringing peroration of Abraham Lincoln's 1860 speech in New York City that established his reputation as a powerful antislavery voice and started him on the road to the White House. Listen to Harold Holzer, author of the award-winning Lincoln At Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President analyze this long neglected but critical oratory.
Part 1 - 'LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT.' This was the ringing peroration of Abraham Lincoln's 1860 speech in New York City that established his reputation as a powerful antislavery voice and started him on the road to the White House. Listen to Harold Holzer, author of the award-winning Lincoln At Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President analyze this long neglected but critical oratory.
Part 2 - 'LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT.' This was the ringing peroration of Abraham Lincoln's 1860 speech in New York City that established his reputation as a powerful antislavery voice and started him on the road to the White House. Listen to Harold Holzer, author of the award-winning Lincoln At Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President analyze this long neglected but critical oratory.
Part 3 - From the novelty of the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry (Rush's Lancers), to the stand of John Buford at Gettysburg, to a sharply critical view of Phil Sheridan, Eric J. Wittenberg offers a variety of interesting views on the men who led and served in the Union cavalry. Union cavalry expert Eric J. Wittenberg, author of Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan.
Part 2 - From the novelty of the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry (Rush's Lancers), to the stand of John Buford at Gettysburg, to a sharply critical view of Phil Sheridan, Eric J. Wittenberg offers a variety of interesting views on the men who led and served in the Union cavalry. Union cavalry expert Eric J. Wittenberg, author of Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan.
Part 1 - From the novelty of the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry (Rush's Lancers), to the stand of John Buford at Gettysburg, to a sharply critical view of Phil Sheridan, Eric J. Wittenberg offers a variety of interesting views on the men who led and served in the Union cavalry. Union cavalry expert Eric J. Wittenberg, author of Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan.
Part 1 - One of the leaders of the late 20th century revival of Civil War art is Don Troiani. His work is noted for its attention to accuracy of detail, a quality he brought to the movie Cold Mountain as a uniform consultant. Find out how this artist combines research and imagination to bring Civil War scenes to light.
Part 2 - One of the leaders of the late 20th century revival of Civil War art is Don Troiani. His work is noted for its attention to accuracy of detail, a quality he brought to the movie Cold Mountain as a uniform consultant. Find out how this artist combines research and imagination to bring Civil War scenes to light.
Part 3 - One of the leaders of the late 20th century revival of Civil War art is Don Troiani. His work is noted for its attention to accuracy of detail, a quality he brought to the movie Cold Mountain as a uniform consultant. Find out how this artist combines research and imagination to bring Civil War scenes to light.
Part 2 - Ronald Christopher, Chairman and Project Manager of the USS Arizona Civil War Gunboat Foundation.
Part 3 - Ronald Christopher, Chairman and Project Manager of the USS Arizona Civil War Gunboat Foundation.
Part 1 - Ronald Christopher, Chairman and Project Manager of the USS Arizona Civil War Gunboat Foundation.
Part 2 - Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois State Historian, describes the creation of the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Illinois.
Part 1 - Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois State Historian, describes the creation of the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Illinois.
Part 3 - Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois State Historian, describes the creation of the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Illinois.
Part 1 - Join CWTR for a fascinating conversation with Keith Poulter, ex-British intelligence, former wargame designer, and the founder and publisher of North and South magazine.
Part 2 - Join CWTR for a fascinating conversation with Keith Poulter, ex-British intelligence, former wargame designer, and the founder and publisher of North and South magazine.
Part 3 - Join CWTR for a fascinating conversation with Keith Poulter, ex-British intelligence, former wargame designer, and the founder and publisher of North and South magazine.
Part 3 - John M. Coski of the Museum of the Confederacy talks about the subject of his book, The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem.
Part 2 - John M. Coski of the Museum of the Confederacy talks about the subject of his book, The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem.
Part 1 - John M. Coski of the Museum of the Confederacy talks about the subject of his book, The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem.
Part 2 - James Loewen, author of Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, talks about distortions, errors and outright falsehoods to be found at many Civil War sites.
Part 3 - James Loewen, author of Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, talks about distortions, errors and outright falsehoods to be found at many Civil War sites.
Part 1 - James Loewen, author of Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, talks about distortions, errors and outright falsehoods to be found at many Civil War sites.
Part 2 - Frank J. Williams is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and author of Judging Lincoln.
Part 3 - Frank J. Williams is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and author of Judging Lincoln.
Part 1 - Frank J. Williams is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and author of Judging Lincoln.
Part 1 - Larry J. Daniel, author of Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865, shares his thoughts on where the war was decided.
Part 3 - Larry J. Daniel, author of Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865, shares his thoughts on where the war was decided.
Part 2 - Larry J. Daniel, author of Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865, shares his thoughts on where the war was decided.
Part 2 - Donald C. Pfanz, author of Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life, talks about his role as historian at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.
Part 3 - Donald C. Pfanz, author of Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life, talks about his role as historian at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.
Part 1 - Donald C. Pfanz, author of Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life, talks about his role as historian at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.
Part 2 - Lesley J. Gordon, author of General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend, crosses boundaries by combining contemporary academic methodology and theory with traditional military topics.
Part 1 - Lesley J. Gordon, author of General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend, crosses boundaries by combining contemporary academic methodology and theory with traditional military topics.
Part 3 - Lesley J. Gordon, author of General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend, crosses boundaries by combining contemporary academic methodology and theory with traditional military topics.
Part 2 - From his father's The Killer Angels to his own best-selling novels, Jeff Shaara discusses the craft of historical fiction.
Part 3 - From his father's The Killer Angels to his own best-selling novels, Jeff Shaara discusses the craft of historical fiction.
Part 1 - From his father's The Killer Angels to his own best-selling novels, Jeff Shaara discusses the craft of historical fiction.
Part 2 - Craig L. Symonds, history professor at the United States Naval Academy and author of the Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War, talks about a range of topics from Confederate generals to Union ironclads.
Part 3 - Craig L. Symonds, history professor at the United States Naval Academy and author of the Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War, talks about a range of topics from Confederate generals to Union ironclads.
Part 1 - Craig L. Symonds, history professor at the United States Naval Academy and author of the Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War, talks about a range of topics from Confederate generals to Union ironclads.
Part 3 - Catherine Clinton, author of The Other Civil War, Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil War, Harriet Tubman and many other books for adults and children, discusses new audiences, and new possibilities, for Civil War history.
Part 2 - Catherine Clinton, author of The Other Civil War, Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil War, Harriet Tubman and many other books for adults and children, discusses new audiences, and new possibilities, for Civil War history.
Part 1 - Catherine Clinton, author of The Other Civil War, Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil War, Harriet Tubman and many other books for adults and children, discusses new audiences, and new possibilities, for Civil War history.
Part 1 - Prolific Civil War author William C. 'Jack' Davis shares observations based on a lifetime of research, and talks about new directions for the future.
Part 2 - Prolific Civil War author William C. 'Jack' Davis shares observations based on a lifetime of research, and talks about new directions for the future.
Part 3 - Prolific Civil War author William C. 'Jack' Davis shares observations based on a lifetime of research, and talks about new directions for the future.
Part 3 - Dr. Steven Woodworth, author of many Civil War titles, including Jefferson Davis and His Generals, brings to light a rarely mentioned facet of life in Civil War armies.
Part 1 - Dr. Steven Woodworth, author of many Civil War titles, including Jefferson Davis and His Generals, brings to light a rarely mentioned facet of life in Civil War armies.
Part 2 - Dr. Steven Woodworth, author of many Civil War titles, including Jefferson Davis and His Generals, brings to light a rarely mentioned facet of life in Civil War armies.
Part 2 - Dave Powell explains how he designs simulation games based on Civil War battles.
Part 3 - Dave Powell explains how he designs simulation games based on Civil War battles.
Part 1 - Dave Powell explains how he designs simulation games based on Civil War battles.
Part 1 - Visit with Daniel R. Weinberg, owner of Chicago's legendary Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.
Part 2 - Visit with Daniel R. Weinberg, owner of Chicago's legendary Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.
Part 3 - Visit with Daniel R. Weinberg, owner of Chicago's legendary Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.
Part 2 - Dr. Mark Grimsley, author of the Lincoln Prize-winning The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865, talks about the motivations and actions of the men who fought for the North.
Part 3 - Dr. Mark Grimsley, author of the Lincoln Prize-winning The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865, talks about the motivations and actions of the men who fought for the North.
Part 1 - Dr. Mark Grimsley, author of the Lincoln Prize-winning The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865, talks about the motivations and actions of the men who fought for the North.
Part 3 - Dr. John Y. Simon, editor of the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, tells us what's wrong with the way Abraham Lincoln is presented to the public.
Part 2 - Dr. John Y. Simon, editor of the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, tells us what's wrong with the way Abraham Lincoln is presented to the public.
Part 1 - Dr. John Y. Simon, editor of the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, tells us what's wrong with the way Abraham Lincoln is presented to the public.
Part 3 - Albert Castel, author of the award-winning Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864, challenges some widely held beliefs about the war.
Part 2 - Albert Castel, author of the award-winning Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864, challenges some widely held beliefs about the war.
Part 1 - Albert Castel, author of the award-winning Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864, challenges some widely held beliefs about the war.
Part 1 - Dr. John Marszalek, biographer of William T. Sherman and Henry Halleck, shares his views on some famous (and infamous) generals.
Part 3 - Dr. John Marszalek, biographer of William T. Sherman and Henry Halleck, shares his views on some famous (and infamous) generals.
Part 2 - Dr. John Marszalek, biographer of William T. Sherman and Henry Halleck, shares his views on some famous (and infamous) generals.
Part 2 - Eric Caren describes how he and Steven Goldman assembled a remarkable collection of Civil War era newspapers, and made them available in print as a Smithsonian 'Headliners' series book.
Part 1 - Eric Caren describes how he and Steven Goldman assembled a remarkable collection of Civil War era newspapers, and made them available in print as a Smithsonian 'Headliners' series book.
Part 3 - Eric Caren describes how he and Steven Goldman assembled a remarkable collection of Civil War era newspapers, and made them available in print as a Smithsonian 'Headliners' series book.
Part 1 - Dr. David Long discusses Lincoln's re-election in 1864 and its impact on American history.
Part 2 - Dr. David Long discusses Lincoln's re-election in 1864 and its impact on American history.
Part 3 - Dr. David Long discusses Lincoln's re-election in 1864 and its impact on American history.
Part 2 - Professor Jim Janke brings us the strategy and drama of naval warfare between the Union and the Confederacy.
Part 3 - Professor Jim Janke brings us the strategy and drama of naval warfare between the Union and the Confederacy.
Part 1 - Professor Jim Janke brings us the strategy and drama of naval warfare between the Union and the Confederacy.
Part 2 - What thoughts were going through the minds of Johnny Reb or Billy Yank as he approached battle? Join us for insights on these questions and more in a rare and personal interview with Dr. James Robertson.
Part 1 - What thoughts were going through the minds of Johnny Reb or Billy Yank as he approached battle? Join us for insights on these questions and more in a rare and personal interview with Dr. James Robertson.
Part 3 - What thoughts were going through the minds of Johnny Reb or Billy Yank as he approached battle? Join us for insights on these questions and more in a rare and personal interview with Dr. James Robertson.
Part 3 - Learn about the Library of Congress's resources and hear the stories behind them from curator John R. Sellers.
Part 1 - Learn about the Library of Congress's resources and hear the stories behind them from curator John R. Sellers.
Part 2 - Learn about the Library of Congress's resources and hear the stories behind them from curator John R. Sellers.
Part 3 - Dr. James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winning author, tackles several political and emotional issues surrounding the causes and legacies of the Civil War.
Part 2 - Dr. James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winning author, tackles several political and emotional issues surrounding the causes and legacies of the Civil War.
Part 1 - Dr. James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winning author, tackles several political and emotional issues surrounding the causes and legacies of the Civil War.