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Tom Saielli, Land Stewardship Manager, American Battlefield Trust. Website: https://www.battlefields.org/

Scott A. MacKenzie, The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872 .   Intro - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Everyone listening to this show knows the basic story of the formation of the State of West Virginia. The hardy anti-slavery Mountaineers who wanted no part of the elite Virginia plantation owners rebellion. So in 1863...

John Reeves, Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant .   Intro - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...The U.S. Grant Renaissance continues. Ron Chernow, Charles Calhoun, Fergus Bordewich, Ron White, Jonathan Sarna, John Wall, Frank Farney, Joseph Rose. Authors are continuing to present fresh interpretations and evaluations of Ulysses S. Gra...

Victor Vignola, Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862

Cecily N. Zander,  The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era   Intro: This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...The Civil War was fought almost entirely by vast armies of volunteer citizen soldiers, who dwarfed the tiny US regular army. The minor role that the regular Army played during the war has obscured its political significance before the war, whe...

Scott Hippensteel, Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat Introduction: This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio, Members of the Civil War Talk Radio community, you and me, we are generally well read on the subject of Civil War battles. We usually know where they happened, and who won. What the tactics and weapons were, what the key terrain features were, but I...

Harold Holzer, author of Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration Introduction: "In recent years, nearly 10 million immigrants have upended the demography, culture and voting patterns of the nation, especially in its teeming urban centers. In the wake of such overwhelming change, resistance to immigration and immigrants metastasized, determined not only to restrict...

Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction . Introduction: "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,......as listeners to this show already know, the Civil War didn't end at Appomattox Courthouse. We know about the rebel armies of Johnston and North Carolina, Kirby Smith and the Trans-Mississippi. We also know that the reconstructio...

Jonathan D. Sarna, When General Grant Expelled the Jews (Jewish Encounters Series)

Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War

Andrew Lang, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism

Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

Howell Raines, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta–and Then Got Written Out of History

John Banks, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond

Kornisorn Wongsrichanalai and David Sibey, editors of Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I

Andrew Dalton, director, Beyond the Battle Museum, Gettysburg

Robert Emmett Curran, American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era Apologies for the poor audio connection with the guest in this episode.

Darin Wipperman, author of Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East

Judith Sumner, author of Plants in the Civil War: A Botanical History

Gene Harmon, of Inheriting Heritage, LLC. Inheriting Heritage, LLC provides professional interpretive consulting, interpretive training, and heritage interpretation to sites nationwide and is passionate about helping people connect to historical, cultural, and natural resources.

Paul Hodnefield, Sherman's Woodticks: The Adventures, Ordeals and Travels of the Eighth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry During the Civil War

Minoa Uffelman, The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy: Life under Occupation in the Upper South

D. Scott Hartwig, author of I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign

Jonathan W. White, Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade

Patrick Brennan and Dylan Brennan, Gettysburg in Color: Volume 1 Brandy Station to the Peach Orchard & Volume 2: The Wheatfield to Falling Waters