Civil War Talk Radio

Civil War Talk Radio

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.

Episodes

November 22, 2025 60 mins

Alexandre Caillot, Late to the Fight: Union Soldier Combat Performance from the Wilderness to the Fall of Petersburg

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Robert P. Watson, Rebels at the Gates: The Confederacy's Final Gamble and the Battle to Save Washington.

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Damian Shiels, Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865

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James Marten, The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment  .css-1t8gq41{border:none;background-image:none;background-color:transparent;box-shadow:none;color:#2F3133;cursor:pointer;font-size:inherit;padding:0;-webkit-text-decoration:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;width:-webkit-max-content;width:-moz-max-content;width:max-content;}.css-1t8gq41:hover,.css-1t8gq41:focus{-webkit-text-decoration:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;}

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Scott Ellsworth, Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America

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Jerilyn James Lee, The Kinship of War: Stories of the United States Colored Troops.

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Jonathan White and Lucas Morel, Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln

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Ryan Quint, Dranesville: A Northern Virginia Town in the Crossfire of a Forgotten Battle, December 20, 1861

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A. Wilson Greene, A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Vol. 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill

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Listen to an audio snapshot of Gettysburg as the town prepares to commemorate the anniversary of Lincoln's Address, with host Gerry Prokopowicz and guest David Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-election and the End of Slaver...

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In These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory, historian Thomaas Desjardin describes how the postwar efforts of John Bachelder, Dan Sickles, and others helped to create the modern view of what happened at the battle. 

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Professor Christopher Fonvielle of UNC- Wilmington, author of The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope, analyzes the important and fascinating events that marked the war in North Carolina in 1864-65.

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Prof. Catherine Clinton, biographer of Mary Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, and others, discusses her work. 

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Michael C. Hardy, Feeding Lee's Army of Northern Virginia

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Editor KT Shively and essay contributor Peter C. Luebke discuss  Read more

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Matthew Locke (co-author with Cliff Roberts), Holding Charleston by the Bridle: Castle Pinckney and the Civil War

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James Robbins Jewell and Eugene S. Van Sickle, eds., Waging War for Freedom with the 54th Massachusetts: The Civil War Memoir of John W. M. Appleton

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Michael deGruccio, The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole's America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era

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Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown, Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance

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