Gerald J. Prokopowicz is a professor at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, who specializes in Public History and the Civil War era. Dr. Prokopowicz is the host of Civil War Talk Radio, a weekly, internet-based talk radio show that features interviews with leading historians, authors, and enthusiasts on the Civil War. He is the author of Did Lincoln Own Slaves? Frequently Asked Questions and Answers about Abraham Lincoln and All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862. He served nine years as the resident Lincoln Scholar at the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he helped create the award-winning exhibit, “Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment,” and edited Lincoln Lore.

Dr. Prokopowicz is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Lincoln Studies Center and the Lincoln Forum. He received a B.A. in History and a law degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University.