Civil War Talk Radio

Thomas P. Nanzig, editor of The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman: Lt. Robert T. Hubard, Jr. , reveals what life was really like among Lee's cavaliers.

Dr. Chandra Manning, author of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War talks about the motivations of the blue and gray.

Peter S. Carmichael, author of The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion

Dr. Bruce Levine, author of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War , challenges neo-Confederate mythology.

Wade Sokolosky and Mark A. Smith, authors of  "No Such Army Since The Days Of Julius Caesar": Sherman's Carolinas Campaign From Fayetteville To Averasboro .

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Steve Courtney, with his co-editor Peter Messent, have produced a fine volume of previously unpublished letters from a Civil War chaplain, The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell .

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.

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

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.