Civil War Talk Radio

Steven R. Boyd, Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers.

Scott Mingus, Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863.

Mark Geiger, Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865. This may be the most original and eye-opening book ever discussed on Civil War Talk Radio.

Dennis Boman, Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri: Balancing Freedom and Security.

Mark A. Weitz, More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army and The Confederacy On Trial: The Piracy And Sequestration Cases Of 1861. CWTR's 200th show!

Daniel Weinberg, Proprietor of The Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago, IL.

Mississippi State University professor John F. Marszalek, biographer of Sherman and Halleck, is also the Executive Director and Managing Editor of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant project.

Thomas Mackie, Director of the Abraham Lincoln Museum at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN.

Peter S. Carmichael, Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.

Marc Egnal, Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War.

Elizabeth Brown Prior, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters.

James Oakes, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics.

Brian Craig Miller, John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory.

James Ogden, chief historian at Chickamauga National Military Park.

Kenneth W. Noe, Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861

James W. Loewen, co-author (with Edward H. Sebesta) of The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause."

Cynthia Wachtell, War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914.

Suzy Barile, Undaunted Heart The True Story of a Southern Belle & a Yankee General. From the publisher: 'In Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle & a Yankee General, author Suzy Barile, a great-great-granddaughter of Ella Swain and Smith Atkins, tells their story, separating facts from the elaborate embellishments the famous courtship and marriage have taken on over the generations. Interwoven throughout Undaunted Heart are excerpts from Ella's never-before-published letters to her parents that reveal a loving marriage that transcended differences and scandal. '

Mark A. Lause, Race and Radicalism in the Union Army

Thomas Clemens, editor of Ezra Carman, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Volume 1, South Mountain.

David A. Powell, The Maps of Chickamauga: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 - September 23, 1863.

Charles Knight, Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Campaign, May 1864.

Craig L. Symonds, Chief Historian of the USS Monitor Center, Professor Emeritus at the US Naval Academy and author of Lincoln and His Admirals.

Lorraine McConaghy, Warship under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West.

Christopher J. Einolf, George Thomas: Virginian for the Union.

Donna D. McCreary, Fashionable First Lady: The Victorian Wardrobe of Mary Lincoln.

Howard Jones, Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations.

Kraig McNutt, creator of https://battleoffranklin.wordpress.com/ , a blog/website dedicated to the Battle of Franklin.

Carol Berkin, Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant.

Gary Yee, Sharpshooters (1750-1900): The Men, Their Guns, Their Story.

Christian G. Samito, Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship During the Civil War Era.

Orville Vernon Burton, editor, The Essential Lincoln: Speeches and Correspondence.

Guy R. Hasegawa, co-editor (with James M. Schmidt), Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine.

Daniel E. Sutherland, A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War.

Joan Waugh, U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth.

Christian Keller, US Army Command and Staff College, author of Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory.

Caroline E. Janney, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause.

Daniel W. Stowell, Director and Editor of the "Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project.)

Ted Alexander is the Chief Historian at Antietam National Battlefield. He is the author, editor and contributor to seven books about Antietam and other aspects of the Civil War. He has also written more than 200 articles and book reviews for publications such as Civil War Times Illustrated, Blue and Gray Magazine, Maryland Historical Magazine and The Washington Times. He lectures frequently for organizations such The Civil War Preservation Trust, Johns Hopkins University's Odyssey Program and The Smithsonian Associates.

George S. Burkhardt, Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War.

Elizabeth R. Varon, Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859.

Ronald D. Smith, Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General.

Judith Giesberg, Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front.

Steven Stanley, cartographer for The Complete Gettysburg Guide: Walking and Driving Tours of the Battlefield, Town, Cemeteries, Field Hospital Sites, and other Topics of Historical Interest.

James Hessler, Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg.

Rod Andrew Jr., Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer.

Mark Hughes, The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages.

Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War.

Craig A. Warren, Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction.

Robert Kenzer, Professor of History and American Studies at University of Richmond, discusses his research.