Episodes

Dec. 13, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - December 10, 2025 (Jeffrey J. Harding & Jon M. Nese: Gettysburg Campaign Weather)

Jeffrey J. Harding and Jon M. Nese, The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign
Dec. 6, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - December 3, 2025 (Jonathan S. Jones: Opioid Slavery)

Jonathan S. Jones, Opium Slavery: The Civil War, Veterans, and America's First Opioid Crisis
Nov. 22, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - November 19, 2025 (Alexandre Caillot: Late to the Fight)

Alexandre Caillot, Late to the Fight: Union Soldier Combat Performance from the Wilderness to the Fall of Petersburg
Nov. 15, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - November 12, 2025 (Robert P. Watson: Rebels at the Gates)

Robert P. Watson, Rebels at the Gates: The Confederacy's Final Gamble and the Battle to Save Washington.
Nov. 1, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - October 29, 2025 (Damian Shiels: The Green and the Blue)

Damian Shiels, Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865
Oct. 11, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - October 8, 2025 (James Marten: Biography of the 6th Wisconsin)

James Marten, The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment
Oct. 4, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - October 1, 2025 (Scott Ellsworth: Midnight on the Potomac)

Scott Ellsworth, Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
Sept. 20, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - September 17, 2025 (Jerilyn James Lee: Stories of the USCT)

Jerilyn James Lee, The Kinship of War: Stories of the United States Colored Troops . Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/182460225500764
Sept. 13, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - September 10, 2025 (Jonathan White & Lucas Morel: F. Douglass on A. Lincoln

Jonathan White and Lucas Morel, Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln
Sept. 6, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - September 3, 2025 (Ryan Quint: Battle of Dranesville)

Ryan Quint, Dranesville: A Northern Virginia Town in the Crossfire of a Forgotten Battle, December 20, 1861
Aug. 30, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - August 27, 2025 (A. Wilson Greene: Petersburg Trilogy, vol. 2)

A. Wilson Greene , A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Vol. 2: From the Crater’s Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
June 26, 2025

Civil 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-electi...
June 26, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - September 23, 2005 (Thomas Desjardin - One, Two, Many Gettysburgs)

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 hap...
June 26, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - September 9, 2005 (Chris Fonvielle, Jr. - The Last Port)

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.
June 25, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - March 4, 2005 (Catherine Clinton: Civil War the Next Generation)

Prof. Catherine Clinton, biographer of Mary Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, and others, discusses her work.
June 13, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - June 11, 2025

Michael C. Hardy, Feeding Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
June 6, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - June 4, 2025

Editor KT Shively and essay contributor Peter C. Luebke discuss The Second Manassas Campaign, edited by Kathryn J. Shively and Caroline E. Janney.
May 31, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - May 28, 2025

Matthew Locke (co-author with Cliff Roberts), Holding Charleston by the Bridle: Castle Pinckney and the Civil War
May 24, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - May 21, 2025

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
May 3, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - April 30, 2025

Michael deGruccio, The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole's America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era
May 1, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - April 23, 2025

Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown, Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance
April 19, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - April 16, 2025

Lesley Gordon, Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War
April 11, 2025

Civil War Talk Radio - April 9, 2025

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