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 - October 26th, 2022
26/10/2022 Duration: 56minWade Sokolosky, Save Wyse Fork Battlefield
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Civil War Talk Radio - October 19th, 2022
19/10/2022 Duration: 57minBryan Cheeseboro, National Archives/Alliance to Preserve the Civil War Defenses of Washington/Re-enactor
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Civil War Talk Radio - October 5th, 2022
05/10/2022 Duration: 56minJeffry D. Wert, author of The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers Struggle for Spotsylvanias Bloody Angle
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Civil War Talk Radio - September 28th, 2022
28/09/2022 Duration: 57minM. Chris Bryan, author of Cedar Mountain to Antietam: A Civil War Campaign History of the Union XII Corps, July – September 1862
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Civil War Talk Radio - September 21st, 2022
21/09/2022 Duration: 56minWilliam A. Blair, author of The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction.
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Civil War Talk Radio - September 14th, 2022
14/09/2022 Duration: 56minJill Ogline Titus, author of Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in Americas Most Famous Small Town
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Civil War Talk Radio - September 7th, 2022
07/09/2022 Duration: 57minSheridan R. Barringer, author of Unhonored Service: The Life of Lees Senior Cavalry Commander, Colonel Thomas Taylor Munford
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Civil War Talk Radio - August 31st, 2022
31/08/2022 Duration: 56minSue Boardman, LBG and co-author of The Gettysburg Cyclorama: The Turning Point of the Civil War on Canvas
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Civil War Talk Radio - June 15th, 2022
15/06/2022 Duration: 57minGerry Prokopowicz, our host....Almost Live, from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
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Civil War Talk Radio - June 8th, 2022
08/06/2022 Duration: 56minSarah J. Purcell, author of Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
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Civil War Talk Radio - June 1st, 2022
01/06/2022 Duration: 57minElizabeth D. Leonard, author of Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life
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Civil War Talk Radio - May 25th, 2022
25/05/2022 Duration: 57minMichael Somerville, author of Bull Run to Boer War: How the American Civil War Changed the British Army
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Civil War Talk Radio May 4th 2022
04/05/2022 Duration: 55minVincent L. Burns, author of Voices of the Army of the Potomac
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Civil War Talk Radio April 27th 2022
27/04/2022 Duration: 48minTim Talbott, on the Battle of New Market Heights Memorial and Education Association
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Civil War Talk Radio April 20th, 2022
20/04/2022 Duration: 56minGene Eric Salecker, author of Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History
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Civil War Talk Radio April 13th 2022
13/04/2022 Duration: 54minEarnest Dollar, author of Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil Wars Final Campaign in North Carolina
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Civil War Talk Radio April 6th 2022
06/04/2022 Duration: 54minMichael E. Block, author of The Carnage was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862
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Civil War Talk Radio March 30th 2022
30/03/2022 Duration: 48minJim Downs, author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
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Civil War Talk Radio March 23rd 2022
23/03/2022 Duration: 50minRoger Lowenstein, author of Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
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Civil War Talk Radio March 16th 2022
16/03/2022 Duration: 55minChristopher Thrasher, author of Suffering in the Army of Tennessee: A Social History of the Confederate Army of the Heartland from the Battles for Atlanta to the Retreat from Nashville