Geoff (Jeff) Wisner
Editor and writer who prepared the Library of America edition of George Templeton Strong's Civil War Diaries and discusses his editorial work and findings.
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Feb 23, 2026 • 1h
American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong with Brenda Wineapple and Geoff Wisner
Brenda Wineapple, historian of 19th-century American letters, and Geoff Wisner, editor of the Library of America Civil War diaries, discuss George Templeton Strong. They explore Strong's vivid wartime diary voice, his humorous and candid portraits of contemporaries, eyewitness accounts like the draft riots, editorial restorations, and how his views on race, duty, and posterity evolved during the Civil War.
