Civil War Talk Radio

Peter McCord, The Union Blockade in the American Civil War: A Reassessment

Julie L. Holcomb, Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures

John Avlon, Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

Jessica Ziparo, This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C.

Our 600th Show!! Harold Holzer, author/ co-author/ editor of over fifty(!) books on Lincoln and the Civil War

Fay Yarbrough, author of Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country

Bruce Chadwick, The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War, An Oral History

John M. Sacher, author of Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers

Dillon Carroll, author of Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers

Chris Bagley, author of The Horse at Gettysburg: Prepared for the Day of Battle

Rebecca Plant and Frances Clarke, authors of Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era

Gary Gallagher, editor of Bruce Cattons "Army of the Potomac" trilogy

Ed Achorn, author of The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History

Eric Michael Burke, author of Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Shermans Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-1863

Hampton Newsome, author of Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond

Steven Cowie, author of When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home

James Scythes, author of Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All

Gerry Prokopowicz talks about bad Civil War history books!

Donna McCreary, author of Mary Lincoln Demystified

Bradley Gottfried, author of Lee Invades the North: A Comparison of the Antietam and Gettysburg Campaigns

David. K. Thomson, author of Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union

Alexander Rose, author of The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

Clayton J. Butler, author of True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Wade Sokolosky, Save Wyse Fork Battlefield

Bryan Cheeseboro, National Archives/Alliance to Preserve the Civil War Defenses of Washington/Re-enactor

Jeffry D. Wert, author of The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers Struggle for Spotsylvanias Bloody Angle

M. Chris Bryan, author of Cedar Mountain to Antietam: A Civil War Campaign History of the Union XII Corps, July – September 1862

William A. Blair, author of The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction.

Jill Ogline Titus, author of Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in Americas Most Famous Small Town

Sheridan R. Barringer, author of Unhonored Service: The Life of Lee's Senior Cavalry Commander, Colonel Thomas Taylor Munford

Sue Boardman, LBG and co-author of The Gettysburg Cyclorama: The Turning Point of the Civil War on Canvas

Gerry Prokopowicz, our host....Almost Live, from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College

Sarah J. Purcell, author of Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era

Elizabeth D. Leonard, author of Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life

Michael Somerville, Bull Run to Boer War: How the American Civil War Changed the British Army

Vincent L. Burns, author of Voices of the Army of the Potomac

Tim Talbott, on the Battle of New Market Heights Memorial and Education Association

Gene Eric Salecker, Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History

Earnest Dollar, Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil Wars Final Campaign in North Carolina

Michael E. Block, author of The Carnage was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862

Jim Downs, Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

Roger Lowenstein, Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

Christopher Thrasher, Suffering in the Army of Tennessee: A Social History of the Confederate Army of the Heartland from the Battles for Atlanta to the Retreat from Nashville

Lorien Foote, Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War

Jacqueline Budell, Archives Specialist at the National Archives

Meg Groeling, First Fallen: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the Norths First Civil War Hero

Jonathan White, A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House and To Address You as My Friend: African Americans Letters to Abraham Lincoln

DeAnne Blanton, founder, Society for Women and the Civil War and co-author of They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War

John F. Messner, A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War: Joannes Wyllie of the Steamer Ad-Vance

Chuck Veit, A Lively Little Battle: New Perspectives on the Battle of Fort Butler, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, 28 July 1863