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.

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

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

09-06
59:30

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

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

08-30
59:29

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

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

06-13
01:01:25

Civil War Talk Radio - June 4, 2025

Editor KT Shively and essay contributor Peter C. Luebke discuss The Second Manassas Campaign, edited by Kathryn J. Shively and Caroline E. Janney.

06-06
01:00:31

Civil War Talk Radio - May 28, 2025

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

05-31
01:03:26

Civil War Talk Radio - May 21, 2025

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

05-24
01:02:27

Civil War Talk Radio - April 30, 2025

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

05-03
01:01:22

Civil War Talk Radio - April 23, 2025

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

05-01
01:00:49

Civil War Talk Radio - April 16, 2025

Lesley Gordon, Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War

04-19
01:03:28

Civil War Talk Radio - April 9, 2025

Stuart W. Sanders, Anatomy of a Duel: Secession, Civil War, and the Evolution of Kentucky Violence   

04-12
01:01:21

Civil War Talk Radio - April 2, 2025

Michael Vorenberg, Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War

04-04
01:01:43

Civil War Talk Radio - March 26, 2025

Frank J. Cirillo, The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union

03-29
01:01:17

Civil War Talk Radio - March 19, 2025

Yael Sternhell, War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War

03-21
01:03:34

Civil War Talk Radio - March 5, 2025

Derrick S. Brown, Operations Manager, Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site

03-07
01:01:20

Civil War Talk Radio - February 26, 2025

Patrick Lewis, co-editor with James Hill Wellborn III, Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games

02-28
01:04:15

Civil War Talk Radio - February 19, 2025

David A. Welker, "African American Intelligence Contributions During the American Civil War," in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.

02-21
01:02:39

Civil War Talk Radio - February 12, 2025

Richard Carwardine, Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union

02-14
01:07:29

Civil War Talk Radio - February 5, 2025

Allen C. Guelzo, author of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

02-07
01:03:52

Civil War Talk Radio - January 29, 2025

Dr. Robert D. Hicks,  Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War

02-03
01:01:24

Tom Macoy

terrible podcast. total BS. AVOID

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