Help from historians / C. Vann Woodward -- Ken Burns's The Civil War as an interpretation of history / Robert Brent Toplin -- How familiarity bred success : military campaigns and leaders in Ken Burns's The Civil War / Gary W. Gallagher -- "Noble women as well" / Catherine Clinton -- Lincoln and Gettysburg : the hero and the heroic place / Gabor S. Boritt -- Ken Burns and the romance of reunion / Eric Foner -- Telling the story : the historian, the filmmaker, and the Civil War / Leon F. Litwack -- Refighting the Civil War / Geoffrey C. Ward -- Four o'clock in the morning courage / Ken Burns.