Episodes

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