Interview on the Civil War Talk Radio show. Gerry Prokopowicz said "Now that the [Civil War] sesquicentennial is upon us, is it time for a new way of thinking about and understanding what the nation went through 150 years ago? If it is, the first book of that new wave just might be The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War.…Listeners, you will want to read this book.”