Episodes

Brian Dirck, author of "Abraham Lincoln and White America."

Anthony Gaughan, author of "The Last Battle of the Civil War, United States Versus Lee, 1861-1883"

Michael Weeks, author of "The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide: 10 Weekend Tours and More than 400 Sites, from Antietam to Zagonyi's Charge"

John Jakes, author of the "North and South" Trilogy.

Ellen Gruber Garvey, Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance.

Bobby Horton, multi-instrumentalist and composer of Civil War era music.

Gail Stephens, Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War.

Brian S. Wills, George Henry Thomas: As True As Steel.

Douglas Egerton, Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War.

David Silkenat, Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, & Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina.

George Kundahl, The Bravest of the Brave: The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur.

Kevin Levin, Remembering The Battle of the Crater: War as Murder.

Christian McWhirter, Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War.

John Michael Priest, Antietam: The Soldiers' Battle and Before Antietam: The Battle for South Mountain.

Harold Holzer, author of numerous books about Abraham Lincoln, discusses current trends in Lincoln studies.

Glenn David Brasher, The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom.

Mark Dunkelman, Marching With Sherman: Through Georgia and the Carolinas with the 154th New York.

Thomas Sobottke, author of "Memory and Morality" in North & South magazine.

Larry Kreiser, Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac

The prolific Earl Hess, The Civil War in the West.

Mark E. Neely, Jr., Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War.

Donald Stoker, The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War.

Andre Fleche, The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict.

Leonard Lanier, assistant curator at The Museum of the Albemarle, in Elizabeth City, NC, discusses Confederate Major-General Bryan Grimes, the last Major-General appointed in the Army of Northern Virginia.