Civil War Talk Radio

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  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 577:31:17
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Synopsis

Each week since October 2004, host Gerald Prokopowicz and a guest discuss the various aspects of Civil War History. Each show consists of an hour long conversation with guests from the very well known historians James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Gallagher to mention a few. Gerald also speaks with artists such as Don Troiani, filmmakers Ken Burns, re-enactors Rob Hodge, novelists Jeff Shaara, curators, game designers, childrens authors, collectors, and others. In addition to well known names like the ones mentioned, the show often features authors of first books who are just starting to make their reputations.

Episodes

  • Martin Johnson: Writing the Gettysburg Address

    05/02/2014 Duration: 56min

    Martin Johnson, author of Writing the Gettysburg Address.

  • Frank Varney: General Grant and the Rewriting of History

    29/01/2014 Duration: 55min

    Frank Varney, author of General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War.

  • Kristopher White: Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front

    15/01/2014 Duration: 54min

    Kristopher White, author of Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, May 3, 1863

  • James Oakes: Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

    11/12/2013 Duration: 55min

    James Oakes, author of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

  • Eric Jacobson: Baptism of Fire: The Battle of Franklin

    04/12/2013 Duration: 58min

    Eric Jacobson, author of Baptism of Fire: 44th Missouri, 175th Ohio and 183rd Ohio at the Battle of Franklin

  • Charles W. Calhoun: The Gilded Age of Politics

    20/11/2013 Duration: 58min

    Charles W. Calhoun, author of From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age and working on a new book about Ulysses S. Grant.

  • Tom Vossler: A Field Guide to Gettysburg

    13/11/2013 Duration: 58min

    Tom Vossler, co-author of A Field Guide to Gettysburg.

  • David S. Cecelski: Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War

    06/11/2013 Duration: 55min

    David S. Cecelski, author of Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War

  • Tom Horrocks: Brown University Library Special Collections

    30/10/2013 Duration: 57min

    Tom Horrocks, Director of Special Collections at Brown University

  • Philip Leigh: Company Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show by Sam Watkins

    16/10/2013 Duration: 56min

    Philip Leigh, Annotator and Editor of Sam Watkins classic memoir Company Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show.

  • Stephen Ramold: Baring the Iron Hand: Discipline in the Union Army

    02/10/2013 Duration: 58min

    Stephen Ramold, author of Baring the Iron Hand: Discipline in the Union Army

  • Sarah Risty-Davis: The CSS Neuse

    25/09/2013 Duration: 57min

    Sarah Risty-Davis, Site Manager at CSS Neuse, Kinston, NC

  • Louis Masur: Lincoln's Hundred Days

    18/09/2013 Duration: 55min

    Louis Masur, author of Lincoln's Hundred Days.

  • Rodney Steward: David Schenck and the Contours of Confederate Identity

    11/09/2013 Duration: 57min

    Rodney Steward, author of David Schenck and the Contours of Confederate Identity

  • Tom Huntington: Searching for George Gordon Meade

    04/09/2013 Duration: 50min

    Tom Huntington, author of Searching for George Gordon Meade

  • Jake Boritt and Gabor Boritt: "The Gettysburg Story" - "The Gettysburg Gospel"

    21/06/2013 Duration: 59min

    Jake Boritt, filmmaker, The Gettysburg Story, w/ appearance by Gabor Boritt, The Gettysburg Gospel

  • Megan Kate Nelson: Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War

    07/06/2013 Duration: 56min

    Megan Kate Nelson, author of Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War.

  • Jonathan Wells: A House Divided: The Civil War and Nineteenth Century America

    31/05/2013 Duration: 01h08s

    Jonathan Wells, author of A House Divided: The Civil War and Nineteenth Century America.

  • Bland Simpson: Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt and the Coming of the Civil War

    24/05/2013 Duration: 57min

    Bland Simpson, author of Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt and the Coming of the Civil War.

  • Chris Mackowski: Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg

    17/05/2013 Duration: 58min

    Chris Mackowski, author of Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg

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