Civil War Talk Radio

A tribute to Lincoln biographer and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Herbert Donald (1920-2009).

Michael F. Nugent, co-author (with Eric J. Wittenberg and J. David Petruzzi) of One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863.

Dana B. Shoaf, editor of both America's Civil War and Civil War Times magazines.

Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn, Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War.

Nina Silber, Gender and the Sectional Conflict.

Roger L. Ransom, The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been.

Thomas D. Mays, Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson's Civil War.

Michael D. Pierson, Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans.

Orville Vernon Burton, The Age of Lincoln.

Howard University professor Edna Greene Medford, co-author of The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views, discusses parallels between Lincoln's time and our own.

Lance Herdegen, Those Damned Black Hats!: The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign

The State of Civil War History, including the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth and the paperback release of Gerald Prokopowicz, Did Lincoln Own Slaves? And Other FAQ About Abraham Lincoln.

Matthew Borowick, Civil War Roundtable columnist for the Civil War News.

University of Richmond president Edward L. Ayers, What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History.

Gregg S. Clemmer, Old Alleghany: The Life and Wars of General Ed Johnson.

Matthew Pinsker, Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home.

Joseph W. Stahl, Identification Discs Of Union Soldiers In The Civil War: A Complete Classification Guide and Illustrated History.

Darrell Collins, Major General Robert E. Rodes Of The Army Of Northern Virginia: A Biography.

James M. Schmidt, Lincoln's Labels: America's Best Known Brands and the Civil War.

George C. Rable, Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!

Peter Cozzens, Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign

Noah Andre Trudeau, Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea.

Gary Ecelbarger, Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester.

Russell S. Bonds, Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor.

Jim Campi, Policy and Communications Director for the Civil War Preservation Trust (later to become the American Battlefield Trust) discusses preservation issues.

Host Gerry Prokopowicz, former Lincoln Scholar and Director of Public Programs at Fort Wayne's Lincoln Museum (1928-2008), discusses the history of the institution and the decision by Lincoln Financial Group to close this world-class historical treasure.

Gary W. Gallagher, Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War.

Kirby Ross, Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri Bushwhacker.

The scheduled guest was Gary Gallagher, discussing his new book Causes Lost, Won, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shaped What We Know About the Civil War. Weather at the World Talk Radio studio interfered with the connection and forced cancellation of the interview after 5 minutes. Prof. Gallagher was rescheduled for June 6, 2008.

Richard M. Reid, Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era.

William Barney, author of The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir's Civil War, discusses slavery and secession.

Michael A. Flannery, author of many books discussing Civil War medical practices and editor of Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall.

Michael A. Palmer, Lee Moves North: Robert E. Lee on the Offensive

John G. Zinn, The Mutinous Regiment: The Thirty-third New Jersey In The Civil War.

Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War

Patrick Schroeder, park historian with the National Park Service at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park.

William Marvel, Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862 and many other books.

A. Wilson Greene, director of The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, at Pamplin Park in Petersburg, Virginia.

Timothy S. Good, of the National Park Service, author of Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Making of a President and editor of We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts.

Victoria E. Ott, Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War

Stephen W. Berry II, All that Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South and House of Abraham: Lincolns & the Todds, a Family Divided by War

Host Gerry Prokopowicz shamelessly promotes his Lincoln biography, in q-and-a format, Did Lincoln Own Slaves? and other Frequently Asked Questions abut Abraham Lincoln.

Robin Ansell, Archivist for the American Civil War Roundtable UK, discusses this unique British Roundtable group.

Frank Milligan, Director of President Lincoln's Cottage, discusses this little known site as well as his book, Washington in Crisis: The Wartime Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865.

Jeffrey Richman, Final Camping Ground: Civil War Veterans at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.

Jacqueline Glass Campbell, When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, makes his second appearance on Civil War Talk Radio.

Kirk C. Jenkins, The Battle Rages Higher: The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry

Stewart Bennett, co-editor (with Barbara Tillery) of The Struggle for the Life of the Republic: A Civil War Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Dana Miller, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Legal historian Paul Finkelman, author of Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown.