Episodes
Oct. 6, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - October 6, 2006 (Stephen R. Taaffe: How to Win Battles and Influence People)
Stephen R. Taaffe, author of Commanding the Army of the Potomac , argues that leadership issues were endemic in that underachieving organization.
Sept. 29, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - September 29, 2006 (Robert Hicks: Imagination and Preservation)
Robert Hicks, author of The Widow of the South , talks about the remarkable fate of the Confederates killed at the battle of Franklin
Sept. 22, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - September 22, 2006 (Phillip Shaw Paludan: Heroes and Victims)
Phillip Shaw Paludan, author of A People's Contest': The Union and Civil War 1861-1865 , discusses his work, covering topics from the Lincoln White House to the Shelton Laurel Massacre.
Sept. 15, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - September 15, 2006 (David Lee Poremba: Hearing Voices)
David Lee Poremba drew on years of experience at the Burton Historical Collection to create If I Am Found Dead: Michigan Voices from the Civil War .
Sept. 1, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - September 1, 2006 (Jonathan Sarris: Fire on the Mountain)
Dr. Jonathan Sarris, author of A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South , discusses the war that Georgians fought among themselves.
Aug. 25, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - August 25, 2006 (David W. Blight: Is History Written by the Winners?)
Dr. David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory presents the 1913 50-year reunion at Gettysburg in a new light.
June 23, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - June 23, 2006 (Allen C. Guelzo: The Lincoln Renaissance)
Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the first two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America .
June 16, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - June 16, 2006 (Harry S. Stout: Some Inconvenient Truths)
Dr. Harry S. Stout, author of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War , defends his controversial work.
June 9, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - June 9, 2006 (Kevin M. Levin: At the Front Lines)
Researcher/blogger/high school teacher Kevin Levin discusses the Battle of the Crater.
June 2, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - June 2, 2006 (Fergus M. Bordewich: Bound for Canaan on the Underground Railroad)
One of the paths that led to the Civil War was a hidden one: the Underground Railroad. Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America , reveals the reality behind...
May 26, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - May 26, 2006 (Timothy B. Smith: Shiloh Ranger)
Dr. Timothy B. Smith, author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg , tells what it's like to work as a NPS ranger at Shiloh.
May 19, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - May 19, 2006 (Brigadier General Harold W. Nelson: 5 X-ray)
Brigadier General Harold W. Nelson (ret), former Chief of Military History for the U.S. Army, has led hundreds of staff rides across Civil War battlefields, for everyone from ROTC students to civilian corporate leaders. Liste...
April 28, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - April 28, 2006 (Patrick Brennan: The Battle of Secessionville)
If Isaac Stevens hadn't been killed at Chantilly, he might have commanded the Army of the Potomac at Antietam. Find out more about Stevens and the other remarkable characters behind the Port Royal expedition of 1862 with Patr...
April 14, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - April 14, 2006 (Joshua Wolf Shenk: What Everybody Knows)
Everybody knows that Lincoln suffered from depression, right? Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness , takes closer look at what we really know about ...
April 7, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - April 7, 2006 (Robert Lee Hodge: Far From Farb)
You've seen him in movies, TV, and on the cover of Confederates in the Attic . Now he researches and produces his own Civil War films. Spend a fascinating hour with Robert Lee Hodge.
March 31, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - March 31, 2006 (Doris Kearns Goodwin: Living with Lincoln)
Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her prize-winning study of Lincoln and his Cabinet, Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln . NOTE: The interview was originally recorded in three segments, of which the firs...
March 24, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - March 24, 2006 (James P. Delgado: The Civil War Underwater)
Beyond the CSS Hunley, the Civil War saw the invention of other submersible warships, and Dr. James P. Delgado has found one of them intact.
March 10, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - March 10, 2006 (Thomas J. Brown: Why a Sphinx?)
Dr. Thomas J. Brown, author of The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration , analyzes the meaning of monuments
March 3, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - March 3, 2006 (James A. Morgan III: What Really Happened at Ball's Bluff?)
James A. Morgan III, A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry
Feb. 24, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - February 24, 2006 (Edwin C. Bearss: Chief of the Battlefield)
The legendary Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service.
Feb. 17, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - February 17, 2006 (Fritz Klein IS Abraham Lincoln)
Out of the more than one hundred people who make all or part of their living portraying Abraham Lincoln, none does it better than Richard "Fritz" Klein.
Feb. 3, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - February 3, 2006 (Mark L. Bradley: The War After Appomattox)
Mark Bradley, author of This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place , discusses the North Carolina campaign of 1865.
Jan. 27, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - January 27, 2006 (Wide Awake Films: If Brady had Video)
Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker of Wide Awake Films describe the process of making Civil War battle documentary videos.
Jan. 20, 2006
Civil War Talk Radio - January 20, 2006 (Thomas Lowry, MD: For Mature Audiences Only)
Unlike the soldiers themselves, author Thomas Lowry, MD, is happy to discuss The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War . Most CWTR programs unavoidably make reference to the massive bloodshed that marked the ...