Episodes

In Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words , Dr. Douglas Wilson argues that for Abraham Lincoln, the pen really was mightier than the sword.

J. David Petruzzi, co-author of Plenty of Blame to Go Around: J.E.B. Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg , discusses the real reasons why Stuart acted as he did in June 1863.

Dr. John C. Rumm is the Executive Director of the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, the oldest Civil War museum in the country, and one with a very promising future.

Steve Courtney, with his co-editor Peter Messent, have produced a fine volume of previously unpublished letters from a Civil War chaplain, The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell .

Dr. Michael Burlingame has made a reputation as an indefatigable researcher of previously unmined collections related to Abraham Lincoln. He has edited numerous reprints of 19th century Lincoln sources, written the controvers...

Dr. Michael W. Schaefer, author of Just What War Is: The Civil War Writings of DeForest and Bierce

James Percoco, author of Divided We Stand: Teaching About Conflict in U.S. History , has made a career out of bringing the Civil War and other eras to life for his students.

Dr. Eric T. Dean, esq., author of Shook Over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War , describes the phenomenon of psychiatric casualties in the Civil War.

Stephen R. Taaffe, author of Commanding the Army of the Potomac , argues that leadership issues were endemic in that underachieving organization.

Robert Hicks, author of The Widow of the South , talks about the remarkable fate of the Confederates killed at the battle of Franklin

David Lee Poremba drew on years of experience at the Burton Historical Collection to create If I Am Found Dead: Michigan Voices from the Civil War .

Dr. David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory presents the 1913 50-year reunion at Gettysburg in a new light.