Episodes

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

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Carwardine, Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union

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