Episodes

Frank Garmon, A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlams Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age.

Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor of Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves.

Richard Upsher Smith, Jr., editor of A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence. Intro - "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio. Tonight we start with two trash bags full of letters. But not just any letters. Not even just Civil War Soldier letters, but much rarer. Letters from both the soldier and the letters the soldier received from his fiancée, as well as from other family members, while Charles B. Lamborn was marching and fighting,...

Carolyn Ivanoff, author of "We Fought at Gettysburg: Firsthand Accounts by the Survivors of the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry." Gerry's Opening Monologue - "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...

Robert K. D. Colby, author of An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

Kyle Sinisi, The Last Hurrah: Sterling Prices Missouri Expedition Of 1864

Shae Smith Cox, author of "The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859-1939." Gerry's Monologue - "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...

Jaime Amanda Martinez, author of "Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South." Gerry's Monologue - "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...

Tom Saielli, Land Stewardship Manager, American Battlefield Trust. Website: https://www.battlefields.org/

Scott A. MacKenzie, author of "The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872." Gerry's Monologue - "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...

John Reeves, author of "Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant". Gerry's Monologue - "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...The U.S. Grant Renaissance continues.

Victor Vignola, Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862

Dr. Cecily N. Zander, author of "The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era" "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...

Scott Hippensteel, author or Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio, Members of the Civil War Talk Radio community, you and me, we are generally well...

Harold Holzer, author of Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Nearly 10 million immigrants have upended the demography, culture and voting patterns of the nation, especially in its teeming urban centers. In the wake of such overwhelming change, resistance to immigration and immigrants metastasized, determined not only to restrict foreigners from entering the country, but to disenfranc...

Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction. Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,......as listeners to this show already know, the Civil War didn't end at Appomattox Courthouse. We know about the rebel armies of Johnston and North Carolina, Kirby Smith and the Trans-Mississippi. We also know that the reconstruction years that followed were marked by so much political violence that some scholars consider it ...

Jonathan D. Sarna, author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews (Jewish Encounters Series)

Matthew Christopher Hulbert, author of Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War

Andrew Lang, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism

Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

Howell Raines, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta–and Then Got Written Out of History

John Banks, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond

Kornisorn Wongsrichanalai and David Sibey, editors of Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I

Andrew Dalton, director, Beyond the Battle Museum, Gettysburg