Today we chat with Amy Murrell Taylor about her book The Divided Family in Civil War America
Today we chat with Craig Thompson Friend about his book Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas
Today we chat with Jonathan D. Neu about his book Our Onward March: The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era
Today we chat with James Robbins Jewell and Eugene S. Van Sickle about their edited memoir Waging War for Freedom with the 54th Massachusetts: The Civil War Memoir of John W. M. Appleton
Today we chat with Benjamin Railton about his book Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism
Today we chat with AnneMarie Brosnan about her book A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina During the Civil War and Reconstruction
Today we chat with Thomas Helling about his book Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South
Today Andrew Houck and Niels Eichhorn chat with Gettysburg College Professor Scott Hancock about his experiences at the July 2025 reenactment and the memory landscape at Gettysburg National Military Park. We chat about various issue related to Gettysburg's memory landscape and Scott Hancock's work in complicating the Civil War history.
Today we chat with Michael S. Green about his book Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party in the Civil War
Today we chat with Louis A. Pérez Jr. about his book Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Today we chat with J. Matthew Ward about his book Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War
Today we chat with Andrew R. Parnell about his book The Forgotten Man: Walter Hines Page, New South Visionary
Today we chat with Mike Bunn about his book This Southern Metropolis: Life in Antebellum Mobile
Today we chat with Paul M. Pressly about his book A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country
Today we chat with Frank W. Garmon about his book A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam’s Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age
Today we chat with Natalie A. Zacek about her book Thoroughbred Nation: Making America at the Racetrack, 1791-1900
Today we chat with Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown about their book Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance
Today Andrew Houck and Niels Eichhorn chat with Gettysburg College Professor Scott Hancock about the memory landscape at Gettysburg National Military Park. We chat about various issue related to Gettysburg's memory landscape and Scott Hancock's work in complicating the Civil War history.
Please check out this video, which we chat about as well:https://youtu.be/Fg9nX67WxjI?si=0KzE302QElVbzLx4
Today Andrew Houck and Niels Eichhorn chat with Nicole Etcheson about her book Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. As her book just had its Twentieth Anniversary, Andrew, Nicole, and Niels chat about the book's continued importance and Civil War Causation historiography.
Today we chat with Shae Smith Cox about her book The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939