Civil War Talk Radio

Gerry Prokopowicz 1958 - Civil War Talk Radio - September 9, 2026 (Robert Gudmestad: The United States Mississippi River Squadron

Since October 2004, host Gerry Prokopowicz (East Carolina University history professor) has held weekly in-depth conversations about Civil War history with various historians, authors, curators, artists and other people whose work is of interest to students of the Civil War era. Guests have included James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gary Gallagher, Caroline Janney, Peter Carmichael, Carol Reardon, and many others. Although the show is named "talk radio," it has little in common with traditional talk radio, in that the guests do most of the talking, on subjects of their choosing. There's no ranting by the host, and no callers. Lists and links to all previous episodes can be found at www.impedimentsofwar.org, along with titles of upcoming episodes.

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Civil War Talk Radio

Episodes

Civil War Talk Radio - September 9, 2026 (Robert Gudmestad: The United States Mississippi River Squadron

Civil War Talk Radio - September 2, 2026 (Anne Sarah Rubin: Sherman's March and America)

Civil War Talk Radio - August 26, 2026 (Paul Quigley: The Man Behind the Cane)

Civil War Talk Radio - June 24, 2026 (M. Chris Bryan and Theodore Savas: The Chancellorsville Papers)

Civil War Talk Radio - June 3, 2026 (Steve Gowler: The Burning Thoughts of William Goodell)

Civil War Talk Radio - May 27, 2026 (Jared Peatman: To Gettysburg and Beyond with the Twentieth Maine )

Civil War Talk Radio - May 20, 2026 (W. Fitzhugh Brundage: A Fate Worse Than Hell)

Civil War Talk Radio - April 29, 2026 (James A. Goecker: The Third Indiana Cavalry, East Wing)

Civil War Talk Radio - April 22, 2026 (Joseph Michael Boslet: Reassessing Little Round Top)

Civil War Talk Radio - April 15, 2026 (Kenneth Noe: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief)

Civil War Talk Radio - April 8, 2026 (Aaron Sheehan-Dean: Fighting with the Past)

Civil War Talk Radio - April 1, 2026 (J. Mark Powell: Witness to War)

Civil War Talk Radio - March 25, 2026 (Benjamin L. Cwayna: The Invincible Twelfth SC)

Civil War Talk Radio - March 18, 2026 (Lance J. Herdegen: Opening Manassas)

Civil War Talk Radio - March 4, 2026 (Edward J. Hagerty: Soldier of the South Richard Anderson)

Civil War Talk Radio - February 25, 2026 (Lindsay Rae Smith Privette: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign)

Civil War Talk Radio - February 18, 2026 (Joseph Stahl & Matthew Borders: Faces of Union Soldiers)

Civil War Talk Radio - February 11, 2026 (John M. Kinder & Jennifer M. Murray: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America)

Civil War Talk Radio - February 4, 2026 (Sarah Jones Weicksel: A Nation Unraveled)

Civil War Talk Radio - January 28, 2026 (Rob Edwards: Defiant, The Story of Robert Smalls)

Civil War Talk Radio - January 21, 2026 (Edwin P. Rutan II: Reclaiming the Honor of the High Bounty Men)

Civil War Talk Radio - January 14, 2026 (Matthew Pinsker: Boss Lincoln)

Civil War Talk Radio - December 10, 2025 (Jeffrey J. Harding & Jon M. Nese: Gettysburg Campaign Weather)

Civil War Talk Radio - December 3, 2025 (Jonathan S. Jones: Opioid Slavery)

Civil War Talk Radio - November 19, 2025 (Alexandre Caillot: Late to the Fight)

Civil War Talk Radio - November 12, 2025 (Robert P. Watson: Rebels at the Gates)

Civil War Talk Radio - October 29, 2025 (Damian Shiels: The Green and the Blue)

Civil War Talk Radio - October 22, 2025 (Nigel Lambert: The Battle of Hatcher's Run)

Civil War Talk Radio - October 8, 2025 (James Marten: Biography of the 6th Wisconsin)

Civil War Talk Radio - October 1, 2025 (Scott Ellsworth: Midnight on the Potomac)

Civil War Talk Radio - September 17, 2025 (Jerilyn James Lee: Stories of the USCT)

Civil War Talk Radio - September 10, 2025 (Jonathan White & Lucas Morel: F. Douglass on A. Lincoln)

Civil War Talk Radio - September 3, 2025 (Ryan Quint: Battle of Dranesville)

Civil War Talk Radio - August 27, 2025 (A. Wilson Greene: Petersburg Trilogy, vol. 2)

Civil War Talk Radio - November 18, 2005 (Live from Gettysburg, with David Long)

Civil War Talk Radio - September 23, 2005 (Thomas Desjardin: One, Two, Many Gettysburgs)

Civil War Talk Radio - September 9, 2005 (Chris Fonvielle, Jr.: The Last Port)

Civil War Talk Radio - March 4, 2005 (Catherine Clinton: Civil War the Next Generation)

Civil War Talk Radio - June 11, 2025 (Michael Hardy: Feeding Lee's Army)

Civil War Talk Radio - June 4, 2025 (KT Shively and Peter C. Luebke: The Second Manassas Campaign)

Civil War Talk Radio - May 28, 2025 (Matthew Locke: Charleston's Castle Pinckney)

Civil War Talk Radio - May 21, 2025 (James Robbins Jewell and Eugene S. Van Sickle: Memoir from the 54th)

Civil War Talk Radio - April 30, 2025 (Michael deGruccio: George Cole's Strange and Tragic Wounds)

Civil War Talk Radio - April 23, 2025 (Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown: Zouave Theaters)

Civil War Talk Radio - April 16, 2025 (Lesley Gordon: Cowardice and Combat in the Civil War)

Civil War Talk Radio - April 9, 2025 (Stuart W. Sanders: Anatomy of a Duel)

Civil War Talk Radio - April 2, 2025 (Michael Vorenberg: Lincoln's Peace)

Civil War Talk Radio - March 26, 2025 (Frank J. Cirillo: The Abolitionist Civil War)

Civil War Talk Radio - March 19, 2025 (Yael Sternhell: War on the Official Record)

Civil War Talk Radio - March 5, 2025 (Derrick S. Brown: Bentonville Battlefield)