Gerry Prokopowicz
Civil War Talk Radio
Since October 2004, host Gerry Prokopowicz (East Carolina University history professor) has held weekly in-depth conversations about Civil War history with various historians, authors, curators, artists and other people whose work is of interest to students of the Civil War era. Guests have included James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gary Gallagher, Caroline Janney, Peter Carmichael, Carol Reardon, and many others. Although the show is named "talk radio," it has little in common with traditional talk radio, in that the guests do most of the talking, on subjects of their choosing. There's n...
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Jun 27, 2026
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Episodes
Civil War Talk Radio - April 29, 2011 (Jennifer Weber: Rise and Fall of the Copperheads) 29.04.2011 51:20
Jennifer Weber, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North .
Civil War Talk Radio - April 15, 2011 (Jamie Malanowski: Sesquicentennial Blogger) 15.04.2011 53:10
Jamie Malanowski, the New York Times ' "Opinionator" and editor of its Civil War Sesquicentennial blog.
Civil War Talk Radio - April 8, 2011 (Judkin Browning: Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina) 08.04.2011 54:15
Judkin Browning, Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina .
Civil War Talk Radio - April 1, 2011 (Joe B. Fulton: The Reconstruction of Mark Twain) 01.04.2011 52:48
Joe B. Fulton, The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature .
Civil War Talk Radio - March 25, 2011 (Steven R. Boyd: Iconography of Civil War Envelopes) 25.03.2011 52:24
Steven R. Boyd, Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers .
Civil War Talk Radio - March 18, 2011 (Scott Mingus: Flames Beyond Gettysburg) 18.03.2011 54:19
Scott Mingus, Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863 .
Civil War Talk Radio - March 4, 2011 (Mark Geiger: Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence) 04.03.2011 52:42
Mark Geiger, Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 . This may be the most original and eye-opening book ever discussed on Civil War Talk Radio.
Civil War Talk Radio - February 25, 2011 (Dennis Boman: Balancing Freedom and Security in Civil War Missouri)) 25.02.2011 53:11
Dennis Boman, Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri: Balancing Freedom and Security .
Civil War Talk Radio - February 18, 2011 (Mark A. Weitz: Confederate Piracy and Desertion) 18.02.2011 52:56
Mark A. Weitz, More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army and The Confederacy On Trial: The Piracy And Sequestration Cases Of 1861 . CWTR's 200th show!
Civil War Talk Radio - February 11, 2011 (Daniel Weinberg: The Abraham Lincoln Book Shop) 11.02.2011 49:46
Daniel Weinberg, Proprietor of The Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago, IL.
Civil War Talk Radio - February 4, 2011 (John F. Marszalek: The Papers of U. S. Grant) 04.02.2011 51:06
Mississippi State University professor John F. Marszalek, biographer of Sherman and Halleck, is also the Executive Director and Managing Editor of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant project.
Civil War Talk Radio - January 28, 2011 (Thomas Mackie: LMU's Lincoln Museum) 28.01.2011 50:43
Thomas Mackie, Director of the Abraham Lincoln Museum at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN.
Civil War Talk Radio - January 14, 2011 (Peter S. Carmichael: The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College) 14.01.2011 51:45
Peter S. Carmichael, Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
Civil War Talk Radio - January 7, 2011 (Marc Egnal: Economic Origins of the Civil War) 07.01.2011 48:00
Marc Egnal, Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War .
Civil War Talk Radio - December 3, 2010 (Elizabeth Brown Prior: The Private Robert E. Lee) 03.12.2010 52:40
Elizabeth Brown Prior, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters .
Civil War Talk Radio - November 5, 2010 (James Oakes: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln) 05.11.2010 52:38
James Oakes, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics .
Civil War Talk Radio - October 29, 2010 (Brian Craig Miller: Remembering John Bell Hood) 29.10.2010 53:23
Brian Craig Miller, John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory .
Civil War Talk Radio - October 22, 2010 (James Ogden: Chickamauga National Military Park Historian) 22.10.2010 55:21
James Ogden, chief historian at Chickamauga National Military Park.
Civil War Talk Radio - October 8, 2010 (Kenneth W. Noe: Reluctant Rebels) 08.10.2010 50:21
Kenneth W. Noe, Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861
Civil War Talk Radio - October 1, 2010 (James W. Loewen: The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader) 01.10.2010 54:37
James W. Loewen, co-author (with Edward H. Sebesta) of The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause."
Civil War Talk Radio - September 17, 2010 (Cynthia Wachtell: The Antiwar Impulse in post-Civil War Literature) 17.09.2010 52:38
Cynthia Wachtell, War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914 .
Civil War Talk Radio - September 10, 2010 (Suzy Barile: A Civil War Love Story) 10.09.2010 52:58
Suzy Barile, Undaunted Heart The True Story of a Southern Belle & a Yankee General . From the publisher: 'In Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle & 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...
Civil War Talk Radio - September 3, 2010 (Mark A. Lause: Race and Radicalism in the Union Army) 03.09.2010 54:13
Mark A. Lause, Race and Radicalism in the Union Army
Civil War Talk Radio - June 11, 2010 (Thomas Clemens: The Lost Antietam Manuscript) 11.06.2010 54:26
Thomas Clemens, editor of Ezra Carman, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Volume 1, South Mountain .
Civil War Talk Radio - June 4, 2010 (David A. Powell: Maps of Chickamauga) 04.06.2010 53:17
David A. Powell, The Maps of Chickamauga: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 - September 23, 1863 .
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