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
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Civil War Talk Radio - April 26th 2023
26/04/2023 Duration: 57minJessica Ziparo, This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C.
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Civil War Talk Radio - April 19th 2023
19/04/2023 Duration: 56minOur 600th Show!! Harold Holzer, author/ co-author/ editor of over Fifty(!) books on Lincoln and the Civil War
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Civil War Talk Radio - April 12th 2023
12/04/2023 Duration: 58minFay Yarbrough, author of Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country
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Civil War Talk Radio - April 5th 2023
05/04/2023 Duration: 57minBruce Chadwick, The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War, An Oral History
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Civil War Talk Radio - March 29th 2023
29/03/2023 Duration: 57minJohn M. Sacher, author of Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers
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Civil War Talk Radio - March 22nd 2023
22/03/2023 Duration: 57minDillon Carroll, author of Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers
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Civil War Talk Radio - March 15th 2023
15/03/2023 Duration: 58minChris Bagley, author of The Horse at Gettysburg: Prepared for the Day of Battle
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Civil War Talk Radio - February 22nd 2023
22/02/2023 Duration: 56minRebecca Plant and Frances Clarke, authors of Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era
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Civil War Talk Radio - February 15th 2023
15/02/2023 Duration: 57minGary Gallagher, editor of Bruce Cattons “Army of the Potomac” trilogy
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Civil War Talk Radio - February 8th 2023
08/02/2023 Duration: 57minEd Achorn, author of The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History
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Civil War Talk Radio - February 1st 2023
01/02/2023 Duration: 57minEric Michael Burke, author of Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Shermans Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-1863
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Civil War Talk Radio - January 25th, 2023
25/01/2023 Duration: 57minHampton Newsome, author of Gettysburgs Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond
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Civil War Talk Radio - January 18th, 2023
18/01/2023 Duration: 56minSteven Cowie, author of When Hell Came to Sharpsburg: The Battle of Antietam and its Impact on the Civilians Who Called it Home
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Civil War Talk Radio - January 11th, 2023
11/01/2023 Duration: 57minJames Scythes, author of Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All
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Civil War Talk Radio December 14th, 2022
14/12/2022 Duration: 56minGerry Prokopowicz talks about bad Civil War history books!
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Civil War Talk Radio - December 7th, 2022
07/12/2022 Duration: 57minDonna McCreary, author of Mary Lincoln Demystified
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Civil War Talk Radio - November 30th, 2022
30/11/2022 Duration: 57minBradley Gottfried, author of Lee Invades the North: A Comparison of the Antietam and Gettysburg Campaigns
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Civil War Talk Radio - November 16th, 2022
16/11/2022 Duration: 56minDavid. K. Thomson, author of Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union
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Civil War Talk Radio - November 9th, 2022
09/11/2022 Duration: 56minAlexander Rose, author of The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy
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Civil War Talk Radio - November 2nd, 2022
02/11/2022 Duration: 57minClayton J. Butler, author of True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction