Author Amanda Foreman talks about her book, "A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War." It’s an event hosted by the New-York Historical Society.

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Author Jeff Shaara discusses historical fiction - and his father Michael Shaara’s book Killer Angels about the Battle of Gettysburg.  Shaara wrote a prequel and a sequel to Killer Angels, and has also written novels set during the American Revolution, World War One, and World War Two.

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In August the Old State House Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas held a symposium on the Civil War.
Speaking were three history professors from the University of Central Arkansas.

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The 1862 battle between the C.S.S. Virginia and the U.S.S. Monitor off Hampton Roads, Virginia marked the first time ironclad ships met in combat. The Civil War ushered in a number of advances in naval technology beyond the use of ironclads, including gains in mine, torpedo and artillery design, as well as the first-time use of a submarine to sink an enemy ship.

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History professor Mary DeCredico speaks about the South’s mobilization for war.

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This week on The Civil War, a talk by A. Wilson Greene on the West Virginia campaigns in the summer and fall of 1861.  Greene is the executive director of Pamplin Historical Park, and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia.  He gave this talk in June to conference attendees at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.

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This weekend Charlotte, NC is our featured city on Book TV and American History TV.  Hosted by our Time-Warner cable partners, our Local Content Vehicles visited numerous locations to showcase the history and literary culture of the city that will host the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

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This week on The Civil War, historians and professors discuss Confederate officer Edward Porter Alexander’s memoir, “Fighting for the Confederacy,” which he wrote in the 1890s about his wartime experiences and observations.

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In 1864, the city of Atlanta fell after a four-month siege by Union troops.  Union General William Sherman would later issue an order to burn Atlanta to the ground, sparing only its churches and hospitals.
 
Historian Bob Davis talks about the attack and how the city was reborn at the Atlanta Cyclorama Museum.

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In 1850, Kentucky U.S. Senator Henry Clay brokered the Compromise of 1850 between the North and the South.
That compromise eventually collapsed and gave way to secession and the Civil War.

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