Episodes

John Avlon, Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

Jessica Ziparo, This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C.

Our 600th Show!! Harold Holzer, author/ co-author/ editor of over fifty(!) books on Lincoln and the Civil War

Fay Yarbrough, author of Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country

Bruce Chadwick, The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War, An Oral History

John M. Sacher, author of Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers

Dillon Carroll, author of Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers

Chris Bagley, author of The Horse at Gettysburg: Prepared for the Day of Battle

Rebecca Plant and Frances Clarke, authors of Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era

Gary Gallagher, editor of Bruce Cattons “Army of the Potomac” trilogy

Ed Achorn, author of The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History

Eric Michael Burke, author of Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Shermans Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-1863

Hampton Newsome, author of Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond

Steven Cowie, author of When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home

James Scythes, author of Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All

Gerry Prokopowicz talks about bad Civil War history books!

Donna McCreary, author of Mary Lincoln Demystified

Bradley Gottfried, author of Lee Invades the North: A Comparison of the Antietam and Gettysburg Campaigns

David. K. Thomson, author of Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union

Alexander Rose, author of The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

Clayton J. Butler, author of True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Wade Sokolosky, Save Wyse Fork Battlefield

Bryan Cheeseboro, National Archives/Alliance to Preserve the Civil War Defenses of Washington/Re-enactor

Jeffry D. Wert, author of The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers Struggle for Spotsylvanias Bloody Angle