I regularly give talks to university and public audiences, and speak with radio hosts and podcasters about the American Civil War, U.S. western history, American popular culture, and other topics.
Podcast Interviews related to “Saving Yellowstone”
- Big if True: Yellowstone
- History’s Biggest Screwups: A Taxman Gets Lost in Yellowstone
- Ranger Chats on Reconstruction: Yellowstone National Park
Radio and Podcast Interviews about “The Three-Cornered War”:
- The Rogue Historian
- Civil War Talk Radio
- New Books Network: Native American Studies
- History Unplugged
- Texas Standard
- Writing Westward
- Perspectives: KETP (El Paso, Tex.)
- Constant Wonder
- American Rambler
- Backstory
- Within the Realm
- Author Stories
- Civil War Book Review
- The Curious Man
- Kirby Wilbur Show (Seattle, Wash.)
- Here and There (Santa Fe, NM)
- Storey Time
TV and Livestream Talks about “The Three-Cornered War”:
- C-Span 2: BookTV (Concord Bookshop)
- A House Divided (Abraham Lincoln Bookshop, Chicago)
- Virtual Book Talk (March 29, 2020, 7:00 p.m. EST)
- Tattered Cover Bookstore Instagram Livestream (first 18 minutes, before the tech taketh away)
- The Clements Library (U of Michigan) Bookworm Livestream Conversation (April 17, 2020)
Speaking Schedule: 2020
- February 7: Annual Lincoln Dinner, Union Club, Boston
- February 11: Distinguished Lecture in History and Literature, Harvard University. 6:00 p.m.
- February 13: Concord Bookshop (Concord, Mass). 7:00 p.m. – filmed for CSPAN2 Book TV
- February 14: General Lander Civil War Roundtable (Lynn, Mass.)
- February 27: Annaley Naegle Redd Lecture, Charles Redd Center, Brigham Young University
- March 5: Texas Tech University
- March 14: Divided Nation livestream interview, Abraham Lincoln Bookshop, Chicago
- May 9: Pikes Peak Region History Lecture, Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum, 2:00 PM MST [virtual event]
- May 27: Boston Athenaeum, noon EST [virtual event]
- June 17: Massachusetts Historical Society [virtual event]
- June 23: Teddy Roosevelt Inaugural Site [virtual event]
- June 25: Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky [virtual event]
- July 22: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation [virtual event]
- October 8: Penn State University
- November 12: University of Kentucky
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Filmed Lectures on other topics (American History TV, C-SPAN3) and Interviews:
- Native Americans in the Civil War (Western History Association Meeting, October 2018)
- “Harvard Sexism and ‘Locker Room Talk,'” The Take with Sue O’Connell (New England Cable News, November 9, 2016)
- Battle Logs: Visualizing the Destruction of Forests in the American Civil War (ALA 2015, San Francisco)
- Looking at Landscapes of War: The Ruins of Columbia, S.C. (February 2015)
- Ruins of Revenge: The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (June 2014)
- Guerrilla Warfare during the Civil War (October 2013). Virginians, be warned: I mispronounce “Mosby” throughout. My apologies.
- Images of the Dead at Antietam (June 2012)
Radio and Podcast Interviews:
- Talking with Ed O’Donnell about Mercy Street, In the Past Lane (2016)
- Interview with Liz Covart, Ben Franklin’s World (2016)
- Interview with Al Zambone, Historically Thinking (2015)
- Interview with David Silkenat, American History Untucked (2014)
- Interview with Gerald Prokopowicz, Civil War Talk Radio (2013)
- “The Sleeve Makes the Man,” interview with Ed Ayers, BackStory with the American History Guys (2012)