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

April 4, 2026 62 mins

J. Mark Powell, Witness to War: The Story of the Civil War Told By Those Who Lived It

 

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Benjamin Cwayna, The Invincible Twelfth: The 12th South Carolina Infantry of the Gregg-McGowan Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia

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Lance J. Herdegen, co-author (with Bill Backus), Opening Manassas: The Iron Brigade, Stonewall Jackson, and the Battle on Brawner's Farm, August 28, 1862

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Edward J. Hagerty, Soldier of the South: Lieutenant General Richard H. Anderson at War and Peace.

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Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War.

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Joseph Stahl & Matthew Borders, Faces of Union Soldiers at Antietam and Faces of Union Soldiers at Culp's Hill

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John M. Kinder & Jennifer M. Murray, eds., They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polariz...

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Sarah Jones Weicksel, A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era

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Rob Edwards, Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls

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Edwin P. Rutan II, High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor

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Matthew Pinsker, Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Jeffrey J. Harding and Jon M. Nese, The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign

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Jonathan S. Jones, Opium Slavery: The Civil War, Veterans, and America's First Opioid Crisis

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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  Read more

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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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