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Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 19, 2025David A. Welker, "African American Intelligence Contributions During the American Civil War," in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.2025-02-211h 02Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 12, 2025Richard Carwardine, Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union2025-02-141h 07
Emerging Civil WarTalking Civil War Talk Radio (with Gerry Prokopowicz)Gerry Prokopowicz, host of Civil War Talk Radio, brings his smooth radio voice to the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about his 20+ years of interviewing some of the top luminaries in the field. Prokopowicz began podcasting in 2004--before "podcasting" was even a thing!This episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast is brought to you by Civil War Trails, the world’s largest open-air museum, offering more than 1,500 sites across six states. Request a brochure atcivilwartrails.org to start planning your trip today.2025-02-1150 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 5, 2025Allen C. Guelzo, author of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment2025-02-071h 03Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 29, 2025Dr. Robert D. Hicks, Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War2025-02-031h 01Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 22, 2025Douglas Egerton, A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson2025-01-3155 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 15, 2025Bennett Parten, author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation2025-01-1558 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - December 11, 2024Aaron 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. Gallagher2024-12-1356 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - December 4, 2024William B. Styple, author of Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War2024-12-0858 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 20, 2024Nigel Hamilton, author of Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents2024-11-2256 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 13, 2024Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell, authors of The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism.2024-11-1756 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 30, 2024Bjorn 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.2024-11-0155 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 23, 2024Michael Megelsh, author of Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America.2024-10-2455 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 16, 2024Andrew Sillen, author of Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White2024-10-1852 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 2, 2024Caroline Davis, co-author of Force of a Cyclone: The Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863.2024-10-0355 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 25, 2024David A. Powell, author of The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864.2024-09-2755 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 18, 2024James Hill Welborn III, author of Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era.2024-09-2055 min
Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 11, 2024Robert Merry, author of Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-18612024-09-1254 min
Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 4, 2024Peter 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"2024-09-0554 min
Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - August 28, 2024Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.2024-08-2955 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 12, 2024Frank Garmon, author of A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlams Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age.2024-06-1354 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 29th, 2024Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor of Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves.2024-06-1054 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 22nd, 2024Richard Upsher Smith, Jr., editor of A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence. Gerry's Opening Monologue - "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 a...2024-06-1055 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 8th, 2024Carolyn Ivanoff, author of We Fought at Gettysburg: Firsthand Accounts by the Survivors of the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. Gerry's Opening Monologue - "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...2024-05-0856 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 1st, 2024Robert K. D. Colby, author of An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South2024-05-0155 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 24th 2024Kyle Sinisi, author of The Last Hurrah: Sterling Prices Missouri Expedition Of 18642024-04-2458 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 17th 2024Shae Smith Cox, author of The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859-1939. Gerry's Monologue - 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 and Confederate military uniform manufacturing. Tonight, happily, you finally have the thoughtful study of uniforms and their meaning that I thought we w...2024-04-1755 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 10th, 2024Jaime Amanda Martinez, author of Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South. Gerry's Monologue - 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 br...2024-04-1055 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 3rd, 2024Tom Saielli, Land Stewardship Manager, American Battlefield Trust. Website: https://www.battlefields.org/2024-04-0354 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 27th, 2024Scott A. MacKenzie, author of The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872. Gerry's Monologue - 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 th...2024-03-2757 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 20th 2024John Reeves, author of Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant. Gerry's Monologue - 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...2024-03-2055 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 13th, 2024Victor Vignola, author of Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 18622024-03-1356 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 28th, 2024Dr. Cecily N. Zander, author of The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era 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...2024-02-2856 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 21st, 2024Scott Hippensteel, author or Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat Gerry's Monologue - 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...2024-02-2156 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 14th, 2024Harold Holzer, author of Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...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...2024-02-1456 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 7th, 2024Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction. Gerry's Monologue - 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...2024-02-0755 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 31st, 2024Jonathan D. Sarna, author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews (Jewish Encounters Series)2024-01-3148 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 24th, 2024Matthew Christopher Hulbert, author of Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War2024-01-2452 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 17th, 2024Andrew Lang, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism2024-01-1757 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 10th, 2024Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South2024-01-1058 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - December 13th, 2023Howell Raines, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta–and Then Got Written Out of History2023-12-1358 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - December 6th, 2023John Banks, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond2023-12-0657 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 29th, 2023Kornisorn Wongsrichanalai and David Sibey, editors of Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I2023-11-2955 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 15th, 2023Andrew Dalton, director, Beyond the Battle Museum, Gettysburg2023-11-1556 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 11th, 2023Robert Emmett Curran, American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era2023-11-0853 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 1st, 2023Darin Wipperman, author of Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East2023-11-0155 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 25th, 2023Judith Sumner, author of Plants in the Civil War: A Botanical History2023-10-2556 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 18th, 2023Gene 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.2023-10-1857 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 4th, 2023Paul Hodnefield, author of Shermans Woodticks: The Adventures, Ordeals and Travels of the Eighth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry During the Civil War2023-10-0457 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 27th, 2023Minoa Uffelman, author of The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy: Life under Occupation in the Upper South2023-09-2754 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 20th, 2023D. Scott Hartwig, author of I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign2023-09-2057 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 13th, 2023Jonathan W. White, author of Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade2023-09-1356 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 6th, 2023Patrick Brennan and Dylan Brennan, authors of Gettysburg in Color: Volume 1 Brandy Station to the Peach Orchard & Volume 2: The Wheatfield to Falling Waters2023-09-0657 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - August 30th, 2023Angela Esco Elder, author of Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss2023-08-3055 min
Addressing GettysburgGettysburg CWI 2023 Conference- Reflecting on Lincoln in the 21st Century- Gerry ProkopowiczGerry Prokopowicz (Civil War Talk Radio) is not just a podcast pioneer. Gerald J. Prokopowicz specializes in Public History and the Civil War era. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Michigan, and practiced law for several years in Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and served for nine years as the Lincoln Scholar at the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he co-wrote the award winning permanent exhibit “Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment,” and edited the quarterly bulletin Lincoln Lore. As a professor of public histo...2023-06-2358 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 21st, 2023Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause2023-06-2158 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 14th, 2023Gerry's Almost Live Show from Civil War Institute, Gettysburg, PA2023-06-141h 02Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 7th, 2023Allison M. Johnson, The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans2023-06-0754 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 31st 2023Peter McCord, The Union Blockade in the American Civil War: A Reassessment2023-05-3157 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 24th 2023Julie L. Holcomb, Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures2023-05-2458 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 3rd 2023John Avlon, Lincoln and the Fight for Peace2023-05-0356 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 26th 2023Jessica Ziparo, This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C.2023-04-2657 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 19th 2023Our 600th Show!! Harold Holzer, author/ co-author/ editor of over Fifty(!) books on Lincoln and the Civil War2023-04-1956 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 12th 2023Fay Yarbrough, author of Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country2023-04-1258 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 5th 2023Bruce Chadwick, The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War, An Oral History2023-04-0557 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 29th 2023John M. Sacher, author of Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers2023-03-2957 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 22nd 2023Dillon Carroll, author of Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers2023-03-2257 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 15th 2023Chris Bagley, author of The Horse at Gettysburg: Prepared for the Day of Battle2023-03-1558 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 22nd 2023Rebecca Plant and Frances Clarke, authors of Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era2023-02-2256 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 15th 2023Gary Gallagher, editor of Bruce Cattons “Army of the Potomac” trilogy2023-02-1557 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 8th 2023Ed Achorn, author of The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History2023-02-0857 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 1st 2023Eric Michael Burke, author of Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Shermans Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-18632023-02-0157 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 25th, 2023Hampton Newsome, author of Gettysburgs Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond2023-01-2557 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 18th, 2023Steven Cowie, author of When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home2023-01-1856 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 11th, 2023James Scythes, author of Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All2023-01-1157 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio December 14th, 2022Gerry Prokopowicz talks about bad Civil War history books!2022-12-1456 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - December 7th, 2022Donna McCreary, author of Mary Lincoln Demystified2022-12-0757 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 30th, 2022Bradley Gottfried, author of Lee Invades the North: A Comparison of the Antietam and Gettysburg Campaigns2022-11-3057 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 16th, 2022David. K. Thomson, author of Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union2022-11-1656 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 9th, 2022Alexander Rose, author of The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy2022-11-0956 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 2nd, 2022Clayton J. Butler, author of True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction2022-11-0257 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 26th, 2022Wade Sokolosky, Save Wyse Fork Battlefield2022-10-2656 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 19th, 2022Bryan Cheeseboro, National Archives/Alliance to Preserve the Civil War Defenses of Washington/Re-enactor2022-10-1957 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 5th, 2022Jeffry D. Wert, author of The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers Struggle for Spotsylvanias Bloody Angle2022-10-0556 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 28th, 2022M. Chris Bryan, author of Cedar Mountain to Antietam: A Civil War Campaign History of the Union XII Corps, July – September 18622022-09-2857 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 21st, 2022William A. Blair, author of The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction.2022-09-2156 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 14th, 2022Jill Ogline Titus, author of Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in Americas Most Famous Small Town2022-09-1456 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 7th, 2022Sheridan R. Barringer, author of Unhonored Service: The Life of Lees Senior Cavalry Commander, Colonel Thomas Taylor Munford2022-09-0757 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 15th, 2022Gerry Prokopowicz, our host....Almost Live, from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College2022-06-1557 minCivil War Talk RadioGerry Prokopowicz: Did Lincoln Own Slaves?...and more.Gerry Prokopowicz, author of Did Lincoln Own Slaves? Gerry discusses Lincoln and other topics in this special call-in show where listeners get to talk directly with Gerry and ask any questions they may have about the Lincoln, the Civil War and more.2014-02-1257 minCivil War Talk RadioDoug Batson: Confederate General D.H. HillDoug Batson, a General D.H. Hill Presenter, pays Gerry a visit. Gerry's Introduction: ...our subject today is Conferedate General Daniel Harvey Hill. Related by marriage to Stonewall Jackson. D. H. Hill led troops in action from Big Bethal, Virginia, in June 1861 to Benntonville, North Carolina, in March of 1865. From Seven Pines to South Mountain, Antietam to Gettysburg to Chickamauga. He served on both fronts throughout the war. We will have two guests on our show for this topic today, Doug Batson, an expert in the history of D. H. Hill, will be with us. But before that, we will...2013-03-0159 minCivil War Talk RadioTony Horowitz: Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil WarTony Horowitz, author of Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. Gerry's Introduction - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio, John Brown was the sacrificial lamb. The man who freely gave his life in accordance with God's will, to free us all from the bondage of sin. John Brown was the long bearded religious fanatic who commanded a suicide attack on a building that symbolized the power of the United States; killed 19 of his followers and touched off a long and costly war. Who was John Brown? The 19th century version of...2013-02-2259 minCivil War Talk RadioBrian Dirck: Abraham Lincoln and White AmericaBrian Dirck, author of Abraham Lincoln and White America. Episode 915 (Season 9 Show 15) Show#252 Gerry's Introduction - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,it's February 2013, and we're approaching the 204th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. With well over 16,000 books already written about our 16th President, what new left to say? Surprisingly, a lot. Lincoln had more impact on race relations than perhaps any othTer individual in American history. This week we'll talk with Professor Brian Dirck about one of Lincoln's qualities that is so significant, relevant and obvious, that it is astonishing that no one has...2013-02-0857 minCivil War Talk RadioAnthony Gaughan: The Last Battle of the Civil War, United States Versus LeeAnthony Gaughan, author of The Last Battle of the Civil War, United States Versus Lee, 1861-1883 CWTR Episode 914 (Season 9, Show 14) Show#251 Gerry's Introduction: “…today our topic is the Last Battle. That, of course, means Bentonville, North Carolina 1865? No. It means Appomattox in Virginia in April 1865? No, not that either. How about CSS Shenandoah in the wastes of the North Pacific, fighting Union ships months after the shooting stopped on land? No, it’s not that either. It’s the battle on the United States vs. Lee and the battleground is the United States Supreme Court. Our guest, Anthony J. Gaughan is the a...2013-02-0159 minCivil War Talk RadioMichael Weeks: The Complete Civil War Road Trip GuideMichael Weeks, author of The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide: 10 Weekend Tours and More than 400 Sites, from Antietam to Zagonyi's Charge CWTR Episode #913 (Season 9, Show 13) Show#250 Gerry's Introduction: ...’no book can take the place of being there, of seeing the landscape, walking the fields and communing with the ghost of the people who made this war a defining moment in America’s history.’ That is a line from the introduction of a book that you need to take with you when you go on one of these trips to where the war happened. The book is “The Complete Civil War Road...2013-01-1159 minCivil War Talk RadioInterview with Susannah BruceSam Houston State University professor and author, Susannah Bruce joins Gerry to discuss her current book, The Harp and The Eagle2007-10-1220 minCivil War Talk RadioInterview with Bradley M. GottfriedAuthor and President of College of Southern Maryland, Bradley M. Gottfried joins Gerry to discuss his current book, The Maps of Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863 and his other works.2007-10-0519 minCivil War Talk RadioThe Best of Civil War TalkWe're featuring one of Gerry's favorite shows while he's away. Tune in and enjoy. Gerry will return LIVE September 7th.2007-06-2957 min