Civil War Talk Radio

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.

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.

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 S ecessionville: Assault on Charleston .

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.

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.

Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her prize-winning study of Lincoln and his Cabinet, Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln . NOTE: The interview was originally recorded in three segments, of which the first has been lost. This episode includes segments 2 and 3 of the interview.  

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.

Dr. Thomas J. Brown, author of The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration , analyzes the meaning of monuments

James A. Morgan III, A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry

The legendary Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service.

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.

Mark Bradley, author of This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place , discusses the North Carolina campaign of 1865.

Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker of Wide Awake Films describe the process of making Civil War battle documentary videos.

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...

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.

Dr. Richard P. McMurry, author of The Fourth Battle of Winchester and Two Great Rebel Armies , presents a fresh approach to Civil War history.

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

Carolyn Texley, Director of Collections at the Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana talks about the challenges of preserving the Lincoln story.

Dr. Donald E. Collins, author of The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis describes the remarkable postwar career of the Confederate president.

Richard F. Miller is the author of Harvard's Civil War , a history of the 20th Massachusetts that goes beyond battles and campaigns to reveal the inner workings of a Civil War regiment.

Prolific Civil War author Dr. Gary Gallagher discusses why the South lost, black Confederates, how battlefields should be interpreted, and other controversial topics.

Learn about the latest communications channel for Civil War students from Dimitri Rogov, creator of the weblog (blog) Civil War Bookshelf

Lonnie Speer, author of Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil Wa r and War of Vengeance: Act of Retaliation Against Civil War POWs , reveals some harsh realities of the war.

Dr. Kenneth Noe, author of Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle , traces the course of the war's least-remembered major battle.

Karen Winnick explains the challenges of communicating important stories of the past in the format of the children's picture book, as she has done in Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers and Cassie's Sweet Berry Pie , both set in the Civil War era.