Civil War Talk Radio

Anne Sarah Rubin, Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and America

Paul Quigley, The Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War

M. Chris Bryan, compiler, and Theodore Savas, publisher, discuss the first two volumes of The Chancellorsville Campaign Papers and other collections of primary sources.

Steve Gowler, Thoughts That Burned: William Goodell, Human Rights, and the Abolition of American Slavery

Jared Peatman, A Hell of a Regiment: To Gettysburg and Beyond with the Twentieth Maine

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War

James A. Goecker, Hoosier Spies and Horse Marines: A History of the Third Indiana Cavalry, East Wing

Joseph Michael Boslet, Little Round Top at Gettysburg: A Reassessment of July 2, 1863

Kenneth Noe, Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend: Reconsidering Lincoln as Commander in Chief

Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War

J. Mark Powell, Witness to War: The Story of the Civil War Told By Those Who Lived It

Benjamin Cwayna, The Invincible Twelfth: The 12th South Carolina Infantry of the Gregg-McGowan Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia

Lance J. Herdegen, co-author (with Bill Backus), Opening Manassas: The Iron Brigade, Stonewall Jackson, and the Battle on Brawner's Farm, August 28, 1862

Edward J. Hagerty, Soldier of the South: Lieutenant General Richard H. Anderson at War and Peace.

Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War.

Joseph Stahl & Matthew Borders, Faces of Union Soldiers at Antietam and Faces of Union Soldiers at Culp's Hill

John M. Kinder & Jennifer M. Murray, eds., They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America

Sarah Jones Weicksel, A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era

Rob Edwards, Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls

Edwin P. Rutan II, High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor

Matthew Pinsker, Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln

Jeffrey J. Harding and Jon M. Nese, The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign

Jonathan S. Jones, Opium Slavery: The Civil War, Veterans, and America's First Opioid Crisis

Alexandre Caillot, Late to the Fight: Union Soldier Combat Performance from the Wilderness to the Fall of Petersburg

Robert P. Watson, Rebels at the Gates: The Confederacy's Final Gamble and the Battle to Save Washington.

Damian Shiels, Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865

Nigel Lambert, www.HatchersRunBattle.com.

James Marten, The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment

Scott Ellsworth, Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America

Jerilyn James Lee, The Kinship of War: Stories of the United States Colored Troops.

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Jonathan White and Lucas Morel, Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln

Ryan Quint, Dranesville: A Northern Virginia Town in the Crossfire of a Forgotten Battle, December 20, 1861

A. Wilson Greene, A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Vol. 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill

Listen to an audio snapshot of Gettysburg as the town prepares to commemorate the anniversary of Lincoln's Address, with host Gerry Prokopowicz and guest David Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-election and the End of Slavery.

In These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory, historian Thomaas Desjardin describes how the postwar efforts of John Bachelder, Dan Sickles, and others helped to create the modern view of what happened at the battle.

Professor Christopher Fonvielle of UNC- Wilmington, author of The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope, analyzes the important and fascinating events that marked the war in North Carolina in 1864-65.

Prof. Catherine Clinton, biographer of Mary Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, and others, discusses her work.

Michael C. Hardy, Feeding Lee's Army of Northern Virginia

Editor KT Shively and essay contributor Peter C. Luebke discussThe Second Manassas Campaign, edited by Kathryn J. Shively and Caroline E. Janney.

Matthew Locke (co-author with Cliff Roberts), Holding Charleston by the Bridle: Castle Pinckney and the Civil War

James Robbins Jewell and Eugene S. Van Sickle, eds., Waging War for Freedom with the 54th Massachusetts: The Civil War Memoir of John W. M. Appleton

Michael deGruccio, The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole's America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era

Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown, Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance

Lesley Gordon, Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War

Stuart W. Sanders, Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence

Michael Vorenberg, Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War

Frank J. Cirillo, The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union

Yael Sternhell, War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War

Derrick S. Brown, Operations Manager, Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site

Patrick Lewis, co-editor with James Hill Wellborn III, Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games

David A. Welker, "African American Intelligence Contributions During the American Civil War," in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.

Richard Carwardine, Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union

Allen C. Guelzo, author of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

Dr. Robert D. Hicks, Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War

Douglas Egerton, A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Bennett Parten, author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

Aaron Sheehan-Dean and Caroline Janney, co-editors of Janney, Carmichael, Sheehan-Dean, eds., THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher

William B. Styple, Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War

Nigel Hamilton, Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents

Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell, The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism.

Bjorn Skaptason, former Shiloh National Military Park Ranger and bibliopole for the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, joins Gerry to discuss Ambrose Bierce and the Civil War.

Michael Megelsh, Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America.

Andrew Sillen, Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White

Caroline Davis, co-author of Force of a Cyclone: The Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863.

David A. Powell, The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864.

James Hill Welborn III, Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era.

Robert Merry, Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

Peter Carmichael Memorial Show, with Aaron Sheehan-Dean and Caroline Janney, co-editors of Janney, Carmichael, Sheehan-Dean, eds., "THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher"

Edda L. Fields-Black, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.

Frank Garmon, A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlams Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age.

Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor of Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves.

Richard Upsher Smith, Jr., editor of A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence.

Intro - "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio. Tonight we start with two trash bags full of letters. But not just any letters. Not even just Civil War Soldier letters, but much rarer. Letters from both the soldier and the letters the soldier received from his fiancée, as well as from other family members, while Charles B. Lamborn was marching and fighting, his friend since childhood, Emily Taylor was at home learning to adjust to the trials of civilian life in wartime, while nurturing a growing bond with Charles. The letters of Emily and Charles, as well as some of those from their siblings, parents and friends have been assembled and edited by Richard Upsher Smith Jr. as the book, " A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence." We'll talk with Doctor Smith about them tonight on Civil War Talk Radio."

Carolyn Ivanoff, We Fought at Gettysburg: Firsthand Accounts by the Survivors of the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry.

Intro - "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...William Warren, the private in the 17th Connecticut, survived the Battle of Gettysburg and the rest of the War and then devoted much of the rest of his life to making sure that the story of his regiment was not forgotten. He compiled notes, photographs, letters from comrades, his own memories into 13 manuscripts volumes. But he never brought himself to complete the task of organizing and editing the material into a published regimental history, like so many other units have. Fortunately, Carolyn Ivanoff has taken up the task and distilled Warren's research into account that does justice to the story in the 17th Connecticut. It's a book called We Fought at Gettysburg: Firsthand Accounts by the Survivors of the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. We'll talk with her tonight on Civil War Talk Radio."

Robert K. D. Colby, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

Kyle Sinisi, The Last Hurrah: Sterling Prices Missouri Expedition Of 1864

Shae Smith Cox, The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859-1939.

Intro - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Way back in 2011, I looked forward to reading a newly published bestseller that I thought would make a great topic for this show. It was called "50 Shades of Grey," but to my intense disappointment it turned out to be an erotic romance that had nothing at all to say about variations in Confederate military uniform manufacturing. Tonight, happily, we finally have the thoughtful study of uniforms and their meaning that I thought we were getting 15 years ago. It's called "The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939". The author is Professor Shae Smith Cox, and she'll talk with us tonight on Civil War Talk Radio."

Jaime Amanda Martinez, Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South.

Intro - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Many historians, from David Herbert Donald to Stephanie McCurry, have advanced the idea that the Confederacy's war effort was hampered by ideologies of state's rights and individualism in contrast to the centralized power of the federal government. Professor Jaime Amanda Martinez says not so fast, the U.S. government never took slaves from their owners during or before the war. But the Confederate government, and states like Virginia and North Carolina, did so on a broad scale. She describes how this worked in her book, "Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South." We'll ask Professor Martinez about it, tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

Scott A. MacKenzie, The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872.

Intro - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Everyone listening to this show knows the basic story of the formation of the State of West Virginia. The hardy anti-slavery Mountaineers who wanted no part of the elite Virginia plantation owners rebellion. So in 1863 they formed their own state, secede from secession. Well, the first sentence of Dr. Scott Mckenzie's new book is "Every account of West Virginia's creation is wrong." Presumably that excludes his own account, which is titled the 'The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872.' We'll find out where West Virginia really came from when we talked with him tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

John Reeves, Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant.

Intro - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...The U.S. Grant Renaissance continues. Ron Chernow, Charles Calhoun, Fergus Bordewich, Ron White, Jonathan Sarna, John Wall, Frank Farney, Joseph Rose. Authors are continuing to present fresh interpretations and evaluations of Ulysses S. Grant's generalship, his presidency, his writing, and his character. The most recent of these books takes us from Grant's pre-war years to his wartime path through some troubled and sometimes surprising developments. We'll talk with the author John Reeves about his book 'Soldier of Destiny, Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S Grant.' That's tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

Victor Vignola, Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862

Cecily N. Zander, The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era

Intro: This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...The Civil War was fought almost entirely by vast armies of volunteer citizen soldiers, who dwarfed the tiny US regular army. The minor role that the regular Army played during the war has obscured its political significance before the war, when Republican politicians saw it as a tool of the southern slave power. And then after the war, when those same Republican's anti-military views had unintended effects on the course of reconstruction and westward expansion. Professor Cecily N. Zander describes these effects and more in 'The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era.' We'll talk with her tonight, on Civil War Talk Radio.

Scott Hippensteel, Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat

Introduction:

This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio, Members of the Civil War Talk Radio community, you and me, we are generally well read on the subject of Civil War battles. We usually know where they happened, and who won. What the tactics and weapons were, what the key terrain features were, but I didn't know and you might not either, because what kind of rock lies under the surface of the Civil War battlefield? What happened millions of years earlier to shape that landform? And how the geology of a historic site can contain clues about what happened there 160 years ago, someone who does know all that is professor of Earth Sciences, Scott Hippensteel, author of 'Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat.' We'll talk with him tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

Harold Holzer, author of Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration

Introduction:

"In recent years, nearly 10 million immigrants have upended the demography, culture and voting patterns of the nation, especially in its teeming urban centers. In the wake of such overwhelming change, resistance to immigration and immigrants metastasized, determined not only to restrict foreigners from entering the country, but to disenfranchise, demonize and occasionally terrorize those who have already arrived, settled and earned citizenship here."

Now in "recent years," I mean 1830 to 1860, and the rest of what I just said isn't quoted from a 2024 website. It's from Harold Holzer's newest book Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration. We'll talk with the author tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction.

Introduction:

"This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,......as listeners to this show already know, the Civil War didn't end at Appomattox Courthouse. We know about the rebel armies of Johnston and North Carolina, Kirby Smith and the Trans-Mississippi. We also know that the reconstruction years that followed were marked by so much political violence that some scholars consider it consider it a guerrilla continuation of the war. But less well known is what happened when the Federal government, under President Ulysses S. Grant, muster the political will to suppress that violence. In 1871, the US Army was deployed to South Carolina to destroy a large scale terrorist operation. We'll learn the result from Fergus M. Bordewich, author of 'Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,' that's tonight on Civil War Talk Radio."

Jonathan D. Sarna, When General Grant Expelled the Jews (Jewish Encounters Series)

Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War

Andrew Lang, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism

Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

Howell Raines, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta–and Then Got Written Out of History

John Banks, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond

Kornisorn Wongsrichanalai and David Sibey, editors of Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I

Robert Emmett Curran, American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era

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Darin Wipperman, author of Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East

Judith Sumner, author of Plants in the Civil War: A Botanical History

Gene Harmon, of Inheriting Heritage, LLC. Inheriting Heritage, LLC provides professional interpretive consulting, interpretive training, and heritage interpretation to sites nationwide and is passionate about helping people connect to historical, cultural, and natural resources.

Paul Hodnefield, Sherman's Woodticks: The Adventures, Ordeals and Travels of the Eighth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry During the Civil War

Minoa Uffelman, The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy: Life under Occupation in the Upper South