Episodes

Sept. 13, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - September 10, 2025 (Jonathan White & Lucas Morel: F. Douglass on A. Lincoln

Jonathan White and Lucas Morel, Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln
Sept. 6, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - September 3, 2025 (Ryan Quint: Battle of Dranesville)

Ryan Quint, Dranesville: A Northern Virginia Town in the Crossfire of a Forgotten Battle, December 20, 1861
Aug. 30, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - August 27, 2025 (A. Wilson Greene: Petersburg Trilogy, vol. 2)

A. Wilson Greene , A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Vol. 2: From the Crater’s Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
June 26, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - November 18, 2005 (Live from Gettysburg, with David Long)

Listen to an audio snapshot of Gettysburg as the town prepares to commemorate the anniversary of Lincoln's Address, with host Gerry Prokopowicz and guest David Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-electi...
June 26, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - September 23, 2005 (Thomas Desjardin - One, Two, Many Gettysburgs)

In These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory , historian Thomaas Desjardin describes how the postwar efforts of John Bachelder, Dan Sickles, and others helped to create the modern view of what hap...
June 26, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - September 9, 2005 (Chris Fonvielle, Jr. - The Last Port)

Professor Christopher Fonvielle of UNC- Wilmington, author of The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope , analyzes the important and fascinating events that marked the war in North Carolina in 1864-65.
June 25, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - March 4, 2005 (Catherine Clinton: Civil War the Next Generation)

Prof. Catherine Clinton, biographer of Mary Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, and others, discusses her work.
June 13, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - June 11, 2025

Michael C. Hardy, Feeding Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
June 6, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - June 4, 2025

Editor KT Shively and essay contributor Peter C. Luebke discuss The Second Manassas Campaign, edited by Kathryn J. Shively and Caroline E. Janney.
May 31, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - May 28, 2025

Matthew Locke (co-author with Cliff Roberts), Holding Charleston by the Bridle: Castle Pinckney and the Civil War
May 24, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - May 21, 2025

James Robbins Jewell and Eugene S. Van Sickle, eds., Waging War for Freedom with the 54th Massachusetts: The Civil War Memoir of John W. M. Appleton
May 3, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - April 30, 2025

Michael deGruccio, The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole's America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era
May 1, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - April 23, 2025

Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown, Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance
April 19, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - April 16, 2025

Lesley Gordon, Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War
April 11, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - April 9, 2025

Stuart W. Sanders, Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence
April 4, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - April 2, 2025

Michael Vorenberg, Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
March 29, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - March 26, 2025

Frank J. Cirillo, The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union
March 21, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - March 19, 2025

Yael Sternhell, War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War
March 7, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - March 5, 2025

Derrick S. Brown, Operations Manager, Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site
Feb. 28, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - February 26, 2025

Patrick Lewis, co-editor with James Hill Wellborn III, Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games
Feb. 21, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - February 19, 2025

David A. Welker, "African American Intelligence Contributions During the American Civil War," in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
Feb. 14, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - February 12, 2025

Richard Carwardine, Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union
Feb. 7, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - February 5, 2025

Allen C. Guelzo, author of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
Feb. 3, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - January 29, 2025

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