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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…

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    Civil War Talk Radio - December 11, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 56:17


    Aaron Sheehan-Dean and Caroline Janney, co-editors of Janney, Carmichael, Sheehan-Dean, eds., THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher

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    Civil War Talk Radio - December 4, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 58:32


    William B. Styple, author of Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War

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    Civil War Talk Radio - November 20, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2024 56:09


    Nigel Hamilton, author of Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents

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    Civil War Talk Radio - November 13, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2024 56:10


    Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell, authors of The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism.

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    Civil War Talk Radio - October 30, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 55:33


    Bjorn Skaptason, former Shiloh National Military Park Ranger and bibliopole for the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, joins Gerry to discuss Ambrose Bierce and the Civil War.

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    Civil War Talk Radio - October 23, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 55:05


    Michael Megelsh, author of Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America.

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    Civil War Talk Radio - October 16, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 52:42


    Andrew Sillen, author of Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White

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    Civil War Talk Radio - October 2, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2024 55:33


    Caroline Davis, co-author of Force of a Cyclone: The Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863.

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    Civil War Talk Radio - September 25, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2024 55:39


    David A. Powell, author of The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864.

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    Civil War Talk Radio - September 18, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2024 55:28


    James Hill Welborn III, author of Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era.

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    Civil War Talk Radio - September 11, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2024 54:12


    Robert Merry, author of Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

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    Civil War Talk Radio - September 4, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2024 54:39


    Peter Carmichael Memorial Show, with Aaron Sheehan-Dean and Caroline Janney, co-editors of Janney, Carmichael, Sheehan-Dean, eds., "THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher"

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    Civil War Talk Radio - August 28, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2024 55:57


    Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.

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    Civil War Talk Radio - June 12, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 54:18


    Frank Garmon, author of A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlams Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age.

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    Civil War Talk Radio - May 29th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2024 54:18


    Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor of Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves.

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    Civil War Talk Radio - May 22nd, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2024 55:42


    Richard Upsher Smith, Jr., editor of A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence. Gerry's Opening Monologue - "This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio. Tonight we start with two trash bags full of letters. But not just any letters. Not even just Civil War Soldier letters, but much rarer. Letters from both the soldier and the letters the soldier received from his fiancée, as well as from other family members, while Charles B. Lamborn was marching and fighting, his friend since childhood, Emily Taylor was at home learning to adjust to the trials of civilian life in wartime, while nurturing a growing bond with Charles. The letters of Emily and Charles, as well as some of those from their siblings, parents and friends have been assembled and edited by Richard Upsher Smith Jr. as the book, ” A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence.” We'll talk with Doctor Smith about them tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.”

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    Civil War Talk Radio - May 8th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2024 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - May 1st, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2024 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - April 24th 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2024 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - April 17th 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2024 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - April 10th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2024 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - April 3rd, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2024 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - March 27th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2024 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - March 20th 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2024 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - March 13th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2024 60:00


    Victor Vignola, author of Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862

    Civil War Talk Radio - February 28th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024 60:00


    Dr. Cecily N. Zander, author of The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...The Civil War was fought almost entirely by vast armies of volunteer citizen soldiers, who dwarfed the tiny US regular army. The minor role that the regular Army played during the war has obscured its political significance before the war, when Republican politicians saw it as a tool of the southern slave power. And then after the war, when those same Republican's anti-military views had unintended effects on the course of reconstruction and westward expansion. Professor Cecily N. Zander describes these effects and more in 'The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era.' We'll talk with her tonight, on Civil War Talk Radio.

    Civil War Talk Radio - February 28th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024 60:00


    Dr. Cecily N. Zander, author of The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...The Civil War was fought almost entirely by vast armies of volunteer citizen soldiers, who dwarfed the tiny US regular army. The minor role that the regular Army played during the war has obscured its political significance before the war, when Republican politicians saw it as a tool of the southern slave power. And then after the war, when those same Republican's anti-military views had unintended effects on the course of reconstruction and westward expansion. Professor Cecily N. Zander describes these effects and more in 'The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era.' We'll talk with her tonight, on Civil War Talk Radio.

    Civil War Talk Radio - February 21st, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 60:00


    Scott Hippensteel, author or Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio, Members of the Civil War Talk Radio community, you and me, we are generally well read on the subject of Civil War battles. We usually know where they happened, and who won. What the tactics and weapons were, what the key terrain features were, but I didn't know and you might not either, because what kind of rock lies under the surface of the Civil War battlefield? What happened millions of years earlier to shape that landform? And how the geology of a historic site can contain clues about what happened there 160 years ago, someone who does know all that is professor of Earth Sciences, Scott Hippensteel, author of 'Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat.' We'll talk with him tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

    Civil War Talk Radio - February 21st, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 60:00


    Scott Hippensteel, author or Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio, Members of the Civil War Talk Radio community, you and me, we are generally well read on the subject of Civil War battles. We usually know where they happened, and who won. What the tactics and weapons were, what the key terrain features were, but I didn't know and you might not either, because what kind of rock lies under the surface of the Civil War battlefield? What happened millions of years earlier to shape that landform? And how the geology of a historic site can contain clues about what happened there 160 years ago, someone who does know all that is professor of Earth Sciences, Scott Hippensteel, author of 'Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat.' We'll talk with him tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

    Civil War Talk Radio - February 14th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2024 60:00


    Harold Holzer, author of Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration

    Civil War Talk Radio - February 14th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2024 60:00


    Harold Holzer, author of Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Nearly 10 million immigrants have upended the demography, culture and voting patterns of the nation, especially in its teeming urban centers. In the wake of such overwhelming change, resistance to immigration and immigrants metastasized, determined not only to restrict foreigners from entering the country, but to disenfranchise, demonize and occasionally terrorize those who have already arrived, settled and earned citizenship here. Now in recent years, I mean 1830 to 1860, and the rest of what I just said isn't quoted from 2024 website. It's from Harold Holzer's newest book 'Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration.' We'll talk with the author tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

    Civil War Talk Radio - February 7th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2024 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - February 7th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2024 60:00


    Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction. Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,......as listeners to this show already know, the Civil War didn't end at Appomattox Courthouse. We know about the rebel armies of Johnston and North Carolina, Kirby Smith and the Trans-Mississippi. We also know that the reconstruction years that followed were marked by so much political violence that some scholars consider it consider it a guerrilla continuation of the war. But less well known is what happened when the Federal government, under President Ulysses S. Grant, muster the political will to suppress that violence. In 1871, the US Army was deployed to South Carolina to destroy a large scale terrorist operation. We'll learn the result from Fergus M. Bordewich, author of 'Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,' that's tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

    Civil War Talk Radio - January 31st, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2024 60:00


    Jonathan D. Sarna, author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews (Jewish Encounters Series)

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    Civil War Talk Radio - January 31st, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2024 60:00


    Jonathan D. Sarna, author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews (Jewish Encounters Series)

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    Civil War Talk Radio - January 24th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2024 60:00


    Matthew Christopher Hulbert, author of Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War

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    Civil War Talk Radio - January 24th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2024 60:00


    Matthew Christopher Hulbert, author of Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War

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    Civil War Talk Radio - January 17th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2024 60:00


    Andrew Lang, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism

    Civil War Talk Radio - January 17th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2024 60:00


    Andrew Lang, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism

    Civil War Talk Radio - January 10th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2024 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - January 10th, 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2024 60:00


    Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

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    Civil War Talk Radio - December 13th, 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2023 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - December 13th, 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2023 56:11


    Howell Raines, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta–and Then Got Written Out of History

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    Civil War Talk Radio - December 6th, 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2023 55:21


    John Banks, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond

    Civil War Talk Radio - December 6th, 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2023 55:21


    John Banks, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond

    Civil War Talk Radio - November 29th, 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2023 53:48


    Kornisorn Wongsrichanalai and David Sibey, editors of Wars Civil and Great: The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I

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    Civil War Talk Radio - November 29th, 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2023 60:00


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    Civil War Talk Radio - November 15th, 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2023 55:25


    Andrew Dalton, director, Beyond the Battle Museum, Gettysburg

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    Civil War Talk Radio - November 15th, 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2023 55:25


    Andrew Dalton, director, Beyond the Battle Museum, Gettysburg

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    Civil War Talk Radio - November 11th, 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2023 52:33


    Robert Emmett Curran, American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era

    Civil War Talk Radio - November 11th, 2023

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2023 52:33


    Robert Emmett Curran, American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era

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