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Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 18, 2005 (Live from Gettysburg, with David Long)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.
2025-06-2740 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 19, 2025 (David A. Welker: African American Intel in the Civil War)David 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, 2025 (Richard Carwardine: Righteous Strife, Religious Nationalism, and Lincoln's Union)Richard Carwardine, Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union
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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, 2025 (Allen C. Guelzo: Lincoln's Ancient Faith)Allen C. Guelzo, author of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
2025-02-071h 03Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 29, 2025 (Dr. Robert D. Hicks: Wounded for Life)Dr. Robert D. Hicks, Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War
2025-02-031h 01Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 22, 2025 (Douglas Egerton: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson)Douglas Egerton, A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
2025-01-3155 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 15, 2025 (Bennett Parten: America's Largest Emancipation))Bennett Parten, author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation
2025-01-1556 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - December 11, 2024 (Aaron Sheehan-Dean and Caroline Janney: Essays for Gary Gallagher))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
2024-12-1351 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - December 4, 2024 (William B. Styple: Generals in Bronze)William B. Styple, Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War
2024-12-0853 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 20, 2024 (Nigel Hamilton: Lincoln vs. Davis)Nigel Hamilton, Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents
2024-11-2251 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 13, 2024Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell, The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism.
2024-11-1751 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.
2024-11-0150 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 23, 2024Michael Megelsh, Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America.
2024-10-2450 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 16, 2024Andrew Sillen, Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White
2024-10-1847 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.
2024-10-0350 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 25, 2024David A. Powell, The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864.
2024-09-2750 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 18, 2024James Hill Welborn III, Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era.
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Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 11, 2024Robert Merry, Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
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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"
2024-09-0549 min
Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - August 28, 2024Edda L. Fields-Black, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.
2024-08-2951 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 12, 2024 (Frank Garmon: A Wonderful Career in Crime)Frank Garmon, A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlams Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age.
2024-06-1349 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 29, 2024 (Brian Matthew Jordan: Final Resting Places)Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor of Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves.
2024-06-1049 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 22, 2024 (Richard Upsher Smith, Jr.: Letters of a Quaker at War)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 t...
2024-06-1051 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 8, 2024Carolyn 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...
2024-05-0856 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 1, 2024Robert K. D. Colby, author of An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South
2024-05-0155 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 24, 2024Kyle Sinisi, The Last Hurrah: Sterling Prices Missouri Expedition Of 1864
2024-04-2458 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 17, 2024Shae Smith Cox, author of 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...
2024-04-1755 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 10, 2024Jaime 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...
2024-04-1055 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 3, 2024Tom Saielli, Land Stewardship Manager, American Battlefield Trust. Website: https://www.battlefields.org/
2024-04-0354 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 27, 2024Scott 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...
2024-03-2757 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 20, 2024John Reeves, author of 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 w...
2024-03-2055 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 13, 2024Victor Vignola, Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862
2024-03-1356 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 28, 2024Cecily N. Zander, author of 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 o...
2024-02-2856 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 21, 2024Scott Hippensteel, author of 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 m...
2024-02-2156 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 14, 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...
2024-02-1456 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 7, 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...
2024-02-0755 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 31, 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 24, 2024Matthew Christopher Hulbert, author of Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War
2024-01-2452 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 17, 2024Andrew Lang, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism
2024-01-1757 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 10, 2024Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
2024-01-1058 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - December 13, 2023Howell Raines, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta–and Then Got Written Out of History
2023-12-1358 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - December 6, 2023John Banks, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond
2023-12-0657 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 29, 2023Kornisorn Wongsrichanalai and David Sibey, editors of Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I
2023-11-2955 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 15, 2023Andrew Dalton, director, Beyond the Battle Museum, Gettysburg
2023-11-1556 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 8, 2023Robert Emmett Curran, American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era
2023-11-0853 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 1, 2023Darin Wipperman, author of Burnside's Boys: The Union's Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East
2023-11-0155 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 25, 2023Judith Sumner, author of Plants in the Civil War: A Botanical History
2023-10-2556 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 18, 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 4, 2023Paul Hodnefield, author of Shermans Woodticks: The Adventures, Ordeals and Travels of the Eighth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry During the Civil War
2023-10-0457 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 27, 2023Minoa Uffelman, author of The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy: Life under Occupation in the Upper South
2023-09-2754 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 20, 2023D. Scott Hartwig, author of I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
2023-09-2057 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 13, 2023Jonathan W. White, author of Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
2023-09-1356 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 6, 2023Patrick Brennan and Dylan Brennan, authors of Gettysburg in Color: Volume 1 Brandy Station to the Peach Orchard & Volume 2: The Wheatfield to Falling Waters
2023-09-0657 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - August 30, 2023Angela Esco Elder, author of Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss
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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 h...
2023-06-2358 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 21, 2023Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
2023-06-2158 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 14, 2023Gerry's Almost Live Show from Civil War Institute, Gettysburg, PA
2023-06-141h 02Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 7, 2023Allison M. Johnson, The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans
2023-06-0754 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 31, 2023Peter McCord, The Union Blockade in the American Civil War: A Reassessment
2023-05-3157 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 24, 2023Julie L. Holcomb, Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures
2023-05-2458 min2023-05-0356 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 26, 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 19, 2023Our 600th Show!! Harold Holzer, author/ co-author/ editor of over fifty(!) books on Lincoln and the Civil War
2023-04-1956 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 12, 2023Fay Yarbrough, author of Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country
2023-04-1258 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - April 5, 2023Bruce Chadwick, The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War, An Oral History
2023-04-0557 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 29, 2023John M. Sacher, author of Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers
2023-03-2957 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 22, 2023Dillon Carroll, author of Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers
2023-03-2257 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 15, 2023Chris Bagley, author of The Horse at Gettysburg: Prepared for the Day of Battle
2023-03-1558 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 22, 2023Rebecca Plant and Frances Clarke, authors of Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era
2023-02-2256 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 15, 2023Gary Gallagher, editor of Bruce Cattons "Army of the Potomac" trilogy
2023-02-1557 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 8, 2023Ed Achorn, author of The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
2023-02-0857 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 1, 2023Eric Michael Burke, author of Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Shermans Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-1863
2023-02-0157 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 25, 2023Hampton Newsome, author of Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond
2023-01-2557 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 18, 2023Steven Cowie, author of When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home
2023-01-1856 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 11, 2023James Scythes, author of Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All
2023-01-1157 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio December 14, 2022Gerry Prokopowicz talks about bad Civil War history books!
2022-12-1456 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - December 7, 2022Donna McCreary, author of Mary Lincoln Demystified
2022-12-0757 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 30, 2022Bradley Gottfried, author of Lee Invades the North: A Comparison of the Antietam and Gettysburg Campaigns
2022-11-3057 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 16, 2022David. K. Thomson, author of Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union
2022-11-1656 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 9, 2022Alexander Rose, author of The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy
2022-11-0956 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - November 2, 2022Clayton J. Butler, author of True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction
2022-11-0257 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 26, 2022Wade Sokolosky, Save Wyse Fork Battlefield
2022-10-2656 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 19, 2022Bryan Cheeseboro, National Archives/Alliance to Preserve the Civil War Defenses of Washington/Re-enactor
2022-10-1957 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - October 5, 2022Jeffry D. Wert, author of The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers Struggle for Spotsylvanias Bloody Angle
2022-10-0556 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 28, 2022M. Chris Bryan, author of Cedar Mountain to Antietam: A Civil War Campaign History of the Union XII Corps, July – September 1862
2022-09-2857 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 21, 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 14, 2022Jill Ogline Titus, author of Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in Americas Most Famous Small Town
2022-09-1456 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 7, 2022Sheridan R. Barringer, author of Unhonored Service: The Life of Lee's Senior Cavalry Commander, Colonel Thomas Taylor Munford
2022-09-0757 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 15, 2022Gerry Prokopowicz, our host....Almost Live, from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
2022-06-1557 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 19, 2019Gerry Prokopowicz, Almost Live, from the 2019 Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
2019-06-1959 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - May 3, 2017Host Gerry Prokopowicz provides a virtual version of the "This Hallowed Ground" bus tour offered by Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours.
2017-05-0356 minCivil War Talk Radio1016-Gerry 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.
2014-02-1200 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 12, 2014 (Gerry Prokopowicz: Did Lincoln Own Slaves? Redux)Host Gerry Prokopowicz, discusses his book Did Lincoln Own Slaves? and Other FAQ About Abraham Lincoln, in this special call-in show where listeners ask any questions they may have about the Lincoln, the Civil War and more.
2014-02-1257 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 22, 2013 (Tony Horwitz: John Brown Rises Again)Tony Horowitz, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. "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 Jesus Christ? O...
2013-02-2259 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - February 8, 2013 (Brian Dirck: Abraham Lincoln and White America)Brian Dirck, Abraham Lincoln and White America. "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 other 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 addressed in detail before. Professor Dirck...
2013-02-0857 minCivil War Talk Radio524-Gerry Prokopowicz-A Tribute to David Herbert Donald, Lincoln ScholarThe late David Herbert Donald passed one week prior to this show. He was a Lincln scholar. A mentor and friend of Gerry Prokopowicz. Gerry talks about the life and works of David Herbert Donald.
2009-05-2200 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 9, 2009 (Best and Worst of 2008 in Civil War Studies)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.
2009-01-0952 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - June 13, 2008 (Corporate Vandalism: The Closing of Fort Wayne's Lincoln Museum)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.
2008-06-1353 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - January 18, 2008 (Gerald Prokopowicz: Did Lincoln Own Slaves?)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.
2008-01-1849 min