Civil War Talk Radio

Joseph R. Reinhart, editor/translator of August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen, describes the career of the 32nd Indiana infantry regiment.

Cavalry genius? War criminal? Both? The war produced no character more controversial than the man Grant called 'that devil, Forrest.' Dr. Brian Steel Wills, author of The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest offers his views.

In Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words, Dr. Douglas Wilson argues that for Abraham Lincoln, the pen really was mightier than the sword.

J. David Petruzzi, co-author of Plenty of Blame to Go Around: J.E.B. Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg, discusses the real reasons why Stuart acted as he did in June 1863.

Dr. John C. Rumm is the Executive Director of the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, the oldest Civil War museum in the country, and one with a very promising future.

Steve Courtney, with his co-editor Peter Messent, have produced a fine volume of previously unpublished letters from a Civil War chaplain, The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins

Dr. Michael Burlingame has made a reputation as an indefatigable researcher of previously unmined collections related to Abraham Lincoln. He has edited numerous reprints of 19th century Lincoln sources, written the controversial The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, and is at work on a monumental four-volume Lincoln biography.

Dr. Michael W. Schaefer, author of Just What War Is: The Civil War Writings of DeForest and Bierce

James Percoco, author of Divided We Stand: Teaching About Conflict in U.S. History, has made a career out of bringing the Civil War and other eras to life for his students.

Dr. Eric T. Dean, esq., author of Shook Over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War, describes the phenomenon of psychiatric casualties in the Civil War.

Dr. Stephen R. Taaffe, author of Commanding the Army of the Potomac, argues that leadership issues were endemic in that underachieving organization.

Robert Hicks, author of The Widow of the South, talks about the remarkable fate of the Confederates killed at the battle of Franklin

Dr. Phillip Shaw Paludan, author of 'A People's Contest': The Union and Civil War 1861-1865, discusses his work, covering topics from the Lincoln White House to the Shelton Laurel Massacre.

David Lee Poremba drew on years of experience at the Burton Historical Collection to create If I Am Found Dead: Michigan Voices from the Civil War.

Dr. Jonathan Sarris, author of A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South, discusses the war that Georgians fought among themselves.

Dr. David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory presents the 1913 50-year reunion at Gettysburg in a new light.

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the first two time winner of the Lincoln Prize, for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America.

Dr. Harry S. Stout, author of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, defends his controversial work.

Researcher/blogger/high school teacher Kevin Levin discusses the Battle of the Crater.

One of the paths that led to the Civil War was a hidden one: the Underground Railroad. Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America, reveals the reality behind a much mythologized historical phenomenon.

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 Secessionville: 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.