Civil War Talk Radio

Rhonda Kohl, The Prairie Boys Go To War: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry, 1861-1865.

Brian Jordan, Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory .

Ernest Dollar, Director, City of Raleigh Museum, discusses the end of the Civil War in central North Carolina.

Doug Batson, a General D.H. Hill presenter. "Our subject today is Conferedate General Daniel Harvey Hill. Related by marriage to Stonewall Jackson. D. H. Hill led troops in action from Big Bethel, Virginia, in June 1861 to Bentonville, North Carolina, in March 1865, from Seven Pines to South Mountain, Antietam to Gettysburg to Chickamauga. He served on both fronts throughout the war. We will have...

Tony Horowitz, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War .   "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio. John Brown was the sacrificial lamb, the man who freely gave his life in accordance with God's will, to free us all from the bondage of sin. John Brown was the long-bearded religious fanatic who commanded a suicide attack on a building that symbolized the po...

Barbara Gannon, The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic .

Brian Dirck, Abraham Lincoln and White America . "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,it's February 2013, and we're approaching the 204th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. With well over 16,000 books already written about our 16th President, what new left to say? Surprisingly, a lot. Lincoln had more impact on race relations than perhaps any other individual in American...

Anthony Gaughan, The Last Battle of the Civil War, United States Versus Lee, 1861-1883   "…today our topic is the last battle. That, of course, means Bentonville, North Carolina 1865? No. It means Appomattox in Virginia in April 1865? No, not that either. How about CSS Shenandoah in the wastes of the North Pacific, fighting Union ships months after the shooting stopped on land? No, it's not that e...

Michael Weeks, The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide: 10 Weekend Tours and More than 400 Sites, from Antietam to Zagonyi's Charge . "...'no book can take the place of being there, of seeing the landscape, walking the fields and communing with the ghost of the people who made this war a defining moment in America's history.' That is a line from the introduction of a book that you need to take with...

John Jakes, author of the best-selling North and South trilogy of Civil War historical fiction.

Ellen Gruber Garvey, Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance . 

Bobby Horton, multi-instrumentalist and composer of Civil War era music. 

Gail Stephens, Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War .

Brian S. Wills, George Henry Thomas: As True As Steel . 

Douglas Egerton, Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War . 

David Silkenat, Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, & Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina .

George Kundahl, The Bravest of the Brave: The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur .

Kevin M. Levin,  Remembering The Battle of the Crater: War as Murder .

Christian McWhirter, Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War.

John Michael Priest, Antietam: The Soldiers' Battle and Before Antietam: The Battle for South Mountain .

Harold Holzer, author of numerous books about Abraham Lincoln, discusses current trends in Lincoln studies.

Glenn David Brasher, The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom .

  Mark Dunkelman, Marching With Sherman: Through Georgia and the Carolinas with the 154th New York.

Thomas Sobottke, author of "Memory and Morality" in North & South magazine. 

Larry Kreiser, Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac