Episodes
June 16, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - June 16, 2006 (Harry S. Stout: Some Inconvenient Truths)
Dr. Harry S. Stout, author of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War , defends his controversial work.
June 9, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - June 9, 2006 (Kevin M. Levin: At the Front Lines)
Researcher/blogger/high school teacher Kevin Levin discusses the Battle of the Crater.
June 2, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - June 2, 2006 (Fergus M. Bordewich: Bound for Canaan on the Underground Railroad)
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...
May 26, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - May 26, 2006 (Timothy B. Smith: Shiloh Ranger)
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.
May 19, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - May 19, 2006 (Brigadier General Harold W. Nelson: 5 X-ray)
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. Liste...
April 28, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - April 28, 2006 (Patrick Brennan: The Battle of Secessionville)
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 Patr...
April 14, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - April 14, 2006 (Joshua Wolf Shenk: What Everybody Knows)
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 ...
April 7, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - April 7, 2006 (Robert Lee Hodge: Far From Farb)
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.
March 31, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - March 31, 2006 (Doris Kearns Goodwin: Living with Lincoln)
Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her prize-winning study of Lincoln and his Cabinet, Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln . NOTE: The interview was originally recorded in three segments, of which the firs...
March 24, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - March 24, 2006 (James P. Delgado: The Civil War Underwater)
Beyond the CSS Hunley, the Civil War saw the invention of other submersible warships, and Dr. James P. Delgado has found one of them intact.
March 10, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - March 10, 2006 (Thomas J. Brown: Why a Sphinx?)
Dr. Thomas J. Brown, author of The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration , analyzes the meaning of monuments
March 3, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - March 3, 2006 (James A. Morgan III: What Really Happened at Ball's Bluff?)
James A. Morgan III, A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry
Feb. 24, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - February 24, 2006 (Edwin C. Bearss: Chief of the Battlefield)
The legendary Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service.
Feb. 17, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - February 17, 2006 (Fritz Klein IS Abraham Lincoln)
Out of the more than one hundred people who make all or part of their living portraying Abraham Lincoln, none does it better than Richard "Fritz" Klein.
Feb. 3, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - February 3, 2006 (Mark L. Bradley: The War After Appomattox)
Mark Bradley, author of This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place , discusses the North Carolina campaign of 1865.
Jan. 27, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - January 27, 2006 (Wide Awake Films: If Brady had Video)
Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker of Wide Awake Films describe the process of making Civil War battle documentary videos.
Jan. 20, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - January 20, 2006 (Thomas Lowry, MD: For Mature Audiences Only)
Unlike the soldiers themselves, author Thomas Lowry, MD, is happy to discuss The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War . Most CWTR programs unavoidably make reference to the massive bloodshed that marked the ...
Jan. 13, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - January 13, 2006 (Michael Vorenberg: How Slavery Ended)
Dr. Michael Vorenberg, author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, The Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment , analyzes the politics of the 13th Amendment.
Jan. 6, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - January 6, 2006 (Richard P. McMurry: Toward a New Civil War Paradigm)
Dr. Richard P. McMurry, author of The Fourth Battle of Winchester and Two Great Rebel Armies , presents a fresh approach to Civil War history.
Dec. 16, 2005
Civil War Talk Radio - December 16, 2005 (Elizabeth Leonard: Who is Joe Holt and why is he saying these things about Jefferson Davis?)
Dr. Elizabeth Leonard, author of Lincoln's Avengers and All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies , covers topics from the Lincoln assassination to the participation of women soldiers
Dec. 9, 2005
Civil War Talk Radio - December 9, 2005 (The Lincoln Museum: Carolyn Texley, Director of Collections)
Carolyn Texley, Director of Collections at the Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana talks about the challenges of preserving the Lincoln story.
Dec. 2, 2005
Civil War Talk Radio - December 2, 2005 (Donald E. Collins: The President Who Wouldn't Die)
Dr. Donald E. Collins, author of The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis describes the remarkable postwar career of the Confederate president.
Nov. 4, 2005
Civil War Talk Radio - November 4, 2005 (Richard F. Miller: Command is Everything)
Richard F. Miller is the author of Harvard's Civil War , a history of the 20th Massachusetts that goes beyond battles and campaigns to reveal the inner workings of a Civil War regiment.
Oct. 28, 2005
Civil War Talk Radio - October 28, 2005 (Gary Gallagher: Causes Lost and Won)
Prolific Civil War author Dr. Gary Gallagher discusses why the South lost, black Confederates, how battlefields should be interpreted, and other controversial topics.