Bennett Parten, author of Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

Aaron Sheehan-Dean and Caroline Janney, co-editors of Janney, Carmichael, Sheehan-Dean, eds., THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher

William B. Styple, author of Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War

Nigel Hamilton, author of Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents

Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell, authors of The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism.

Bjorn Skaptason, former Shiloh National Military Park Ranger and bibliopole for the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, joins Gerry to discuss Ambrose Bierce and the Civil War.

Michael Megelsh, author of Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America.

Andrew Sillen, author of Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White

Caroline Davis, co-author of Force of a Cyclone: The Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863.

David A. Powell, author of The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864.