Civil War Talk Radio

Allen C. Guelzo, author of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

Dr. Robert D. Hicks,  Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War

Douglas Egerton, A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Bennett Parten, author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

Aaron Sheehan-Dean and Caroline Janney, co-editors of Janney, Carmichael, Sheehan-Dean, eds., THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher

William B. Styple, Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War

Nigel Hamilton, Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents

Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell, The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism.

Bjorn Skaptason, former Shiloh National Military Park Ranger and bibliopole for the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, joins Gerry to discuss Ambrose Bierce and the Civil War.

Michael Megelsh, Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America.

Andrew Sillen, Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White

Caroline Davis, co-author of Force of a Cyclone: The Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863.

David A. Powell, The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864.

James Hill Welborn III, Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era.

Robert Merry, Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

Peter Carmichael Memorial Show, with Aaron Sheehan-Dean and Caroline Janney, co-editors of Janney, Carmichael, Sheehan-Dean, eds., " THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher "

Edda L. Fields-Black, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.

Frank Garmon, A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlams Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age.

Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor of Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves.

Richard Upsher Smith, Jr., editor of A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence. Intro - "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio. Tonight we start with two trash bags full of letters. But not just any letters. Not even just Civil War Soldier letters, but much rarer. Letters from both the soldier and the letters the soldier received from hi...

Carolyn Ivanoff, We Fought at Gettysburg: Firsthand Accounts by the Survivors of the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. Intro - "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...William Warren, the private in the 17th Connecticut, survived the Battle of Gettysburg and the rest of the War and then devoted much of the rest of his life to making sure that the story of his regiment was not fo...

Robert K. D. Colby, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

Kyle Sinisi,  The Last Hurrah: Sterling Prices Missouri Expedition Of 1864

Shae Smith Cox, The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859-1939 . Intro - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Way back in 2011, I looked forward to reading a newly published bestseller that I thought would make a great topic for this show. It was called "50 Shades of Grey," but to my intense disappointment it turned out to be an erotic romance that had n...

Jaime Amanda Martinez, Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South .   Intro - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Many historians, from David Herbert Donald to Stephanie McCurry, have advanced the idea that the Confederacy's war effort was hampered by ideologies of state's rights and individualism in contrast to the centralized power of the federal government. Professor J...