Kenneth Heineman, author of "Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio"

Jeff Richman, author of "The Gallant Sims: A Civil War Hero Rediscovered"

Nancie W. Gudmestad, Director of the Shriver House Museum in Gettysburg, PA.

Mark A. Noll, author of "The Civil War as a Theological Crisis"

Mark Will-Weber, author of "Muskets and Applejack: Spirits, Soldiers, and the Civil War"

We start our 14th season, and 400th show, with Steven E. Sodergren, author of "The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns: Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864-1865"

Timothy B. Smith, author of "Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson"

Brian McCarthy, jazz composer, to discuss his "The Better Angels of Our Nature" jazz project

David Powell, discussing his 3rd book in his series on the Battle of Chickamauga, "Barren Victory: The Retreat in Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863"

Michael McCarthy, author of "Confederate Waterloo: The Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865 and the Controversy that Brought Down a General"