Episodes

James A. Morgan III, A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry

The legendary Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service.

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.

Mark Bradley, author of This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place , discusses the North Carolina campaign of 1865.

Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker of Wide Awake Films describe the process of making Civil War battle documentary videos.

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 ...

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.

Dr. Richard P. McMurry, author of The Fourth Battle of Winchester and Two Great Rebel Armies , presents a fresh approach to Civil War history.

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

Carolyn Texley, Director of Collections at the Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana talks about the challenges of preserving the Lincoln story.

Dr. Donald E. Collins, author of The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis describes the remarkable postwar career of the Confederate president.

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.

Prolific Civil War author Dr. Gary Gallagher discusses why the South lost, black Confederates, how battlefields should be interpreted, and other controversial topics.

Learn about the latest communications channel for Civil War students from Dimitri Rogov, creator of the weblog (blog) Civil War Bookshelf

Lonnie Speer, author of Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil Wa r and War of Vengeance: Act of Retaliation Against Civil War POWs , reveals some harsh realities of the war.

Dr. Kenneth Noe, author of Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle , traces the course of the war's least-remembered major battle.

Karen Winnick explains the challenges of communicating important stories of the past in the format of the children's picture book, as she has done in Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers and Cassie's Sweet Berry Pie , both set in the Civil...

Mark H. Dunkelman has spent a lifetime researching the story of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. In Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment , he uses his findings to shed light on the soci...

Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer presents a new look at a long overlooked work by Abraham Lincoln, as described in his fascinating book, Lincoln At Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President

Eric J. Wittenberg, author of Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan , shares his thoughts on Union cavalry.

Civil War artist Don Troiani discusses his work

Ronald Christopher, Chairman and Project Manager of the USS Arizona Civil War Gunboat Foundation, details the remarkable history and recent discovery of a Civil War ship.

Dr. Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois State Historian, describes the creation of the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Illinois.

Join CWTR for a fascinating conversation with Keith Poulter, ex-British intelligence, former wargame designer, and the founder and publisher of North & South magazine.