Civil War Talk Radio

Tony Horowitz, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio. John Brown was the sacrificial lamb, the man who freely gave his life in accordance with God's will, to free us all from the bondage of sin. John Brown was the long-bearded religious fanatic who commanded a suicide attack on a building that symbolized the power of the United States, killed 19 of his followers and touched off a long and costly war. Who was John Brown? The 19th-century version of Jesus Christ? Or Osama bin Laden? The debate goes marching on today. We will have the author of Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horowitz, who gives his take in Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, with us today on Civil War Talk Radio."

Barbara Gannon, The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic.

Brian Dirck, Abraham Lincoln and White America. "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,it's February 2013, and we're approaching the 204th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. With well over 16,000 books already written about our 16th President, what new left to say? Surprisingly, a lot. Lincoln had more impact on race relations than perhaps any other individual in American history. This week we'll talk with Professor Brian Dirck about one of Lincoln's qualities that is so significant, relevant and obvious, that it is astonishing that no one has addressed in detail before. Professor Dirck is the author of Abraham Lincoln and White America and he joins us today on Civil War Talk Radio.

Anthony Gaughan, The Last Battle of the Civil War, United States Versus Lee, 1861-1883 "…today our topic is the last battle. That, of course, means Bentonville, North Carolina 1865? No. It means Appomattox in Virginia in April 1865? No, not that either. How about CSS Shenandoah in the wastes of the North Pacific, fighting Union ships months after the shooting stopped on land? No, it's not that either. It's the battle of the United States vs. Lee and the battleground is the United States Supreme Court. Our guest, Anthony J. Gaughan is the author of The Last Battle of the Civil War, United States Versus Lee, 1861-1883 and we will find out about this fascinating legal encounter today, on Civil War Talk Radio."

Michael Weeks, The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide: 10 Weekend Tours and More than 400 Sites, from Antietam to Zagonyi's Charge. "...'no book can take the place of being there, of seeing the landscape, walking the fields and communing with the ghost of the people who made this war a defining moment in America's history.' That is a line from the introduction of a book that you need to take with you when you go on one of these trips to where the war happened. The book is The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide" and it's one of several valuable and interesting road trip guides written by today's guest Michael Weeks. Join us for our conversation on the road, with Michael Weeks, today on Civil War Talk Radio."

John Jakes, author of the best-selling North and South trilogy of Civil War historical fiction.

Ellen Gruber Garvey, Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance.

Bobby Horton, multi-instrumentalist and composer of Civil War era music.

Gail Stephens, Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War.

Brian S. Wills, George Henry Thomas: As True As Steel.

Douglas Egerton, Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War.

David Silkenat, Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, & Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina.

George Kundahl, The Bravest of the Brave: The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur.

Kevin M. Levin, Remembering The Battle of the Crater: War as Murder.

Christian McWhirter, Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War.

John Michael Priest, Antietam: The Soldiers' Battle and Before Antietam: The Battle for South Mountain.

Harold Holzer, author of numerous books about Abraham Lincoln, discusses current trends in Lincoln studies.

Glenn David Brasher, The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom.

Mark Dunkelman, Marching With Sherman: Through Georgia and the Carolinas with the 154th New York.

Thomas Sobottke, author of "Memory and Morality" in North & South magazine.

Larry Kreiser, Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac

The prolific Earl Hess, The Civil War in the West.

Mark E. Neely, Jr., Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War.

Donald Stoker, The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War.

Andre Fleche, The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict.

Leonard Lanier, assistant curator at The Museum of the Albemarle, in Elizabeth City, NC, discusses Confederate Major-General Bryan Grimes, the last Major-General appointed in the Army of Northern Virginia.

Adam Arenson, The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War.

Jason Phillips, Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility.

Jack Dempsey, Michigan and the Civil War: A Great and Bloody Sacrifice

Don McCue, Curator at the Lincoln Shrine in Redlands, CA

Andrea Foroughi, Go If You Think It Your Duty: A Minnesota Couple's Civil War Letters.

Dwight Pitcaithley, Former Chief Historian, National Park Service.

Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace.

James S. Price, The Battle of New Market Heights: Freedom Will Be Theirs by the Sword.

Tom D. Crouch, Senior Curator, Division of Aeronautics, at the Smithsonian Institute National Air & Space Museum and author of Lighter Than Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships.

Robert Kirby, National Park Service Superintendent at Gettysburg National Military Park.

Joseph Glatthaar, General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse.

Robert Wynstra, The Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson.

Anne Marshall, Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State

Wallace Hettle, Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory.

Timothy Sedore, An Illustrated Guide to Virginia's Confederate Monuments.

James Marten, Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America.

Robert Hunt, The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory.

Gregory J. W. Urwin, Custer Victorious The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer, discusses Custer's Civil War career as well as his own experience of raising a company of volunteers to portray Union soldiers for the movie "Glory."

Daniel W. Crofts, A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and 'The Diary of a Public Man'

Josh Howard, Research Historian for the Office of Archives and History, part of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, discusses his project of counting the North Carolinians who died in the Civil War. The research will be used to provide statistics for an upcoming "North Carolina Civil War Atlas."

Jennifer Weber, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North.

Jamie Malanowski, the New York Times' "Opinionator" and editor of its Civil War Sesquicentennial blog.

Judkin Browning, Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina.

Joe B. Fulton, The Reconstruction of Mark Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature.