Civil War Talk Radio

Sam Houston State University professor Susannah Ural Bruce, author of The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865.

Author and President of the College of Southern Maryland, Bradley M. Gottfried discusses his current book, The Maps of Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863 and his other works.

Civil War historian Gordon Rhea is the author of five major volumes on the Overland Campaign.

Thomas R. Flagel, author of History Buff's Guide To The Civil War, Thomas R. Flagel joins Jerry this week for a discussion of many "Top Ten" categories of the Civil War.

Dr. Laurence Schiller, of Northwestern University, discusses cavalry in the Civil War. Dr. Schiller is author of numerous articles on Cavalry. He is also the Fencing coach for Northwestern University and discusses common aspects between fencing and use of the cavalry saber.

Scott C. Patchan, author of Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign, gives an in-depth narrative of events in the Shenandoah Valley during the summer of 1864. Robert E, Lee directed Jubal Early to distract Union forces in the Valley to keep pressure off Lee's defending forces in Richmond and Petersburg.

David M. Owens, author of The Devil's Topographer: Ambrose Bierce and the American War Story

Brian C. Melton, author of Sherman's Forgotten General: Henry W. Slocum.

Jim Cullen, author of The Civil War in Popular Culture (A Reusable Past).

Aaron Sheehan-Dean, editor of Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War.

John Hennessy, Chief Historian of the National Park Service, talks about the Park Service's Re-Interpretations of Civil War battlefields.

George C. Bradley, author of From Conciliation to Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin

Hank H. Cox, author of Lincoln And The Sioux Uprising Of 1862

Dr. Michael P. Gray, author of The Business of Captivity: Elmira and its Civil War Prison, looks at activities in and outside the walls of the North's deadliest prison camp.

Michael W. Kauffman, author of American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies, clears up myths and misconceptions surrounding the assassination.

Dr. Albert A. Nofi, author of The Civil War Notebook and editor of Knapsack for North & South magazine, shares a wide range of fascinating facts.

William W. Freehling, author of The Road to Disunion, vol. 2: Secessionists Triumphant: 1854-1861

O. Edward Cunningham wrote a dissertation on Shiloh more than forty years ago; Dr. Gary D. Joiner, co-editor of Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 has brought it to the light of day.

Alan Archambault, artist and Curator, Fort Lewis Military Museum, inspires a new generation of Civil War students.

Ethan Rafuse, author of McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union, re-evaluates the Young Napoleon.

Theodore Savas, of Savas Beatie LLC, talks about the business of publishing of books on the Civil War and other historical subjects.

Thomas P. Nanzig, editor of The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman: Lt. Robert T. Hubard, Jr., reveals what life was really like among Lee's cavaliers.

Dr. Chandra Manning, author of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War talks about the motivations of the blue and gray.

Peter S. Carmichael, author of The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion

Dr. Bruce Levine, author of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War, challenges neo-Confederate mythology.

Wade Sokolosky and Mark A. Smith, authors of "No Such Army Since The Days Of Julius Caesar": Sherman's Carolinas Campaign From Fayetteville To Averasboro.

Joseph R. Reinhart, editor/translator of August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen, describes the career of the 32nd Indiana infantry regiment.

Cavalry genius? War criminal? Both? The war produced no character more controversial than the man Grant called that devil, Forrest. Dr. Brian Steel Wills, author of The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest offers his views.

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 controversial The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, and is at work on a monumental four-volume Lincoln biography.

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

Phillip Shaw Paludan, author of A People's Contest': The Union and Civil War 1861-1865, discusses his work, covering topics from the Lincoln White House to the Shelton Laurel Massacre.

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. Jonathan Sarris, author of A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South, discusses the war that Georgians fought among themselves.

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.

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the first two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America.

Dr. Harry S. Stout, author of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, defends his controversial work.

Researcher/blogger/high school teacher Kevin Levin discusses the Battle of the Crater.

One of the paths that led to the Civil War was a hidden one: the Underground Railroad. Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America, reveals the reality behind a much mythologized historical phenomenon.

Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.

Brigadier General Harold W. Nelson (ret), former Chief of Military History for the U.S. Army, has led hundreds of staff rides across Civil War battlefields, for everyone from ROTC students to civilian corporate leaders. Listen in and hear what they learn.

If Isaac Stevens hadn't been killed at Chantilly, he might have commanded the Army of the Potomac at Antietam. Find out more about Stevens and the other remarkable characters behind the Port Royal expedition of 1862 with Patrick Brennan, author of Secessionville: Assault on Charleston.

Everybody knows that Lincoln suffered from depression, right? Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, takes closer look at what we really know about Lincoln's temperament.