Behind The Lines
Our interview series featuring conversations with prominent members of the American Civil War community
Published: 4/19/13
An Interview with Marion Moser Jones
Our interview with Marian Moser Jones, an assistant professor of family science at University of Maryland’s School of Public Health and the author of The American Red Cross: From...Published: 3/15/13
An Interview with Ron Coddington
Our conversation with Ron Coddington, an assistant managing editor with the Chronicle of Higher Education and author of African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album, published by...Published: 3/8/13
An Interview with David Silkenat
Our conversation with David Silkenat, Assistant Professor of History and Education at North Dakota State University and author of Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce & Debt in Civil War...Published: 2/1/13
An Interview with Jill Titus
Our conversation with Jill Titus, associate director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. Dr. Titus discusses the upcoming Future of Civil War History Conference taking place in...Published: 1/25/13
An Interview with Scott Hartwig
Our Conversation with Scott Hartwig, Supervisory Historian at Gettysburg National Military Park and author of To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 (The Johns Hopkins University Press,...
Published: 1/18/13
An Interview with Brian Craig Miller
Our conversation with Brian Craig Miller, Assistant Professor of History and Associate Chair of History at Emporia State University and editor of A Punishment on the Nation: An Iowa...Published: 11/16/12
An Interview with Clay Risen
Our conversation with Clay Risen, editor of the New York Times Disunion blog. In this interview, Clay discusses the origins of the online version of the blog, the benefits...Published: 11/2/12
An Interview with Cathy Wright
Our conversation with Cathy Wright, curator for the Museum of the Confederacy. In her interview, Cathy discusses her responsibilities at the MOC, the new MOC branch at Appomattox, and...Published: 10/26/12
An Interview with Barbara Gannon
Our interview with Barbara Gannon, Assistant Professor of Military History at the University of Central Florida and author of The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand...Published: 10/19/12
An Interview with Lisa Brady
Our interview with Lisa Brady, Associate Professor of History at Boise State University and author of War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during...Published: 10/12/12
An Interview with Anne Rubin
Our interview with Anne Rubin, Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Rubin is the author of A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of...
Published: 10/5/12
An Interview with Kevin Levin
Our interview with historian Kevin Levin. Kevin maintains the popular blog “Civil War Memory” and is the author of Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War As Murder, now...Published: 9/28/12
An Interview with Glenn Brasher
Our interview with Glenn Brasher, Instructor of History at the University of Alabama and author of The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans & the Fight...Published: 9/19/12
An Interview with Aaron Astor
Our interview with Aaron Astor, associate professor of history at Maryville College and author of Rebels on the Border published by Louisiana State University Press. Dr. Astor’s work examines...Published: 9/14/12
An Interview with Ric Burns
Our interview with Ric Burns, director of the new PBS documentary “Death and the Civil War.” Based on Drew Gilpin Faust’s “This Republic of Suffering,” Burns details the documentary, his...Published: 9/7/12
An Interview with Jim Downs
Our interview with Jim Downs, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Connecticut College and author of Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War...Published: 8/31/12
An Interview with Keith Harris
The Civil War Monitor‘s interview with Keith Harris, host of “Cosmic America,” a Civil War multi-media platform. In the interview we discuss Keith’s goals with Cosmic America, other Civil...Published: 8/24/12
An Interview with Elizabeth Leonard
Our interview with Elizabeth Leonard, the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College and author of Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt...