Civil War Talk Radio
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, children’s 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
April 24, 2024 • 60 mins
Kyle Sinisi, author of The Last Hurrah: Sterling Prices Missouri Expedition Of 1864
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April 17, 2024 • 60 mins
Shae Smith Cox, author of The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859-1939.
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This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Way back in 2011, I looked forward to reading a newly published bestseller that I thought would make a great topic for this show, it was called “50 Shades of Grey,” but to my intense disappointment it turned out to be an erotic romance that had nothing at all ...
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April 10, 2024 • 60 mins
Jaime Amanda Martinez, author of Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South.
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This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Many historians, from David Herbert Donald to Stephanie McCurry, have advanced the idea that the Confederacy's war effort was hampered by ideologies of state’s rights and individualism in contrast to the centralized power of the federal government. Professor Jaime Amanda Mart...
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April 3, 2024 • 60 mins
Tom Saielli, Land Stewardship Manager, American Battlefield Trust. Website: https://www.battlefields.org/
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March 27, 2024 • 60 mins
Scott A. MacKenzie, author of The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872.
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This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Everyone listening to this show knows the basic story of the formation of the State of West Virginia. The hardy anti-slavery Mountaineers who wanted no part of the elite Virginia plantation owners rebellion. So in 1863 they formed thei...
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March 20, 2024 • 60 mins
John Reeves, author of Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant.
Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...The U.S. Grant Renaissance continues. Ron Chernow, Charles Calhoun, Fergus Bordewich, Ron White, Jonathan Sarna, John Wall, Frank Farney, Joseph Rose. Authors are continuing to present fresh interpretations and evaluations of Ulysses S. Grant's generalship...
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March 13, 2024 • 60 mins
Victor Vignola, author of Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862
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February 28, 2024 • 60 mins
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 i...
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February 21, 2024 • 60 mins
Scott Hippensteel, author or Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat
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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 y...
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February 14, 2024 • 60 mins
Harold Holzer, author of Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
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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 t...
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February 7, 2024 • 60 mins
Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction.
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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 ...
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January 31, 2024 • 60 mins
Jonathan D. Sarna, author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews (Jewish Encounters Series)
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January 24, 2024 • 60 mins
Matthew Christopher Hulbert, author of Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War
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January 17, 2024 • 60 mins
Andrew Lang, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism
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January 10, 2024 • 60 mins
Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
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December 13, 2023 • 56 mins
Howell Raines, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta–and Then Got Written Out of History
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December 6, 2023 • 55 mins
John Banks, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond
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November 29, 2023 • 53 mins
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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November 15, 2023 • 55 mins
Andrew Dalton, director, Beyond the Battle Museum, Gettysburg
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November 8, 2023 • 52 mins
Robert Emmett Curran, American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era
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