David McCullough

as Narrator

9 episodes

Sam Waterston

as Abraham Lincoln

9 episodes

Julie Harris

as Mary Chestnut

9 episodes

Jason Robards

as Ulysses S. Grant

9 episodes

Morgan Freeman

as Frederick Douglass

9 episodes

Paul Roebling

as Joshua Chamberlain

9 episodes

Garrison Keillor

as Walt Whitman

9 episodes

George Black

as Robert E. Lee

9 episodes

Arthur Miller

as William Tecumseh Sherman

9 episodes

Christopher Murney

as Elisha Hunt Rhodes

9 episodes

Charles McDowell

as Samuel R. Watkins

9 episodes

Horton Foote

as Jefferson Davis

9 episodes

George Plimpton

as George Templeton Strong

9 episodes

Philip Bosco

as Horace Greeley

9 episodes

Terry Courier

as George B. McClellan

9 episodes

Jody Powell

as Stonewall Jackson

(+1 more)

9 episodes

Studs Terkel

as Benjamin Butler

(+1 more)

9 episodes

Hoyt Axton

as Various

9 episodes

John Hartford

as Various

9 episodes

Colleen Dewhurst

as Various

9 episodes

Shelby Foote

as Various

9 episodes

Ronnie Gilbert

as Various

9 episodes

Jeremy Irons

as Various

9 episodes

Gene Jones

as Various

9 episodes

Derek Jacobi

as Various

9 episodes

Kurt Vonnegut

as Various

9 episodes

Laurence Fishburne

as Various

9 episodes

Pamela Reed

as Various

9 episodes

M. Emmet Walsh

as Various

9 episodes

Barbara Fields

as Various

9 episodes