Reading the Civil War in Real Time Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Smoke fills the air after several cannons were fired during a civil war reenactment in Naperville, Illinois ( Tom Gill / flickr ) Produced by Hsi-Chang Lin and Kristen Meinzer Produced by New York Times, PRI and WNYC