I regularly give talks to university and public audiences about the American Civil War and other topics.
Speaking Schedule: 2020
- June 12-15: Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College
- May 9: Pikes Peak Region History Lecture, Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum, Colorado Springs
- March 25: Central Massachusetts Civil War Roundtable (Worcester)
- March 24: New Bedford (Mass.) Civil War Roundtable
- March 20: Keynote Address, Virginia Tech Graduate Conference
- February 14: General Lander Civil War Roundtable (Lynn, Mass.)
Speaking Schedule: 2019
- October 18: South Meets West Panel, Western History Association Meeting, Las Vegas
- October 12: Writing the West Breakfast, Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Meeting, Denver
Speaking Schedule: 2018
- November 13: New Bedford Civil War Roundtable (Fort Taber, New Bedford)
- October 19: “Bosque Redondo,” Native Americans in the Civil War West roundtable, Western History Association Meeting, San Antonio
- October 4: Sponsored talk, Public Lands History Center and the History Department, Colorado State University
- October 2: Biennial Pettit Lecture, Colorado College
Filmed Lectures (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)
Speaking Schedule: 2017
- October 26: C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture, Center for the Southwest, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)
Speaking Schedule: 2016
- January 9: roundtable, “Remapping the Civil War,” American Historical Association meeting (Atlanta, Ga.)
- January 21: Olde Colony Civil War Roundtable (Dedham, Mass.)
Speaking Schedule: 2015
- February 17: Columbia Burning Symposium (Columbia, S.C.)
- March 12: North Shore (N.Y.) Civil War Roundtable
- April 15: Boca Grande Civil War Reflections Symposium (Boca Grande, FL)
- June 28: Readex Breakfast, American Library Association Meeting (San Francisco, Calif.)
- July 7: Summer Institute, JFK Library (Boston, Mass.)
- August 6: Summer Institute, American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Mass.)
- October 16-17: Objects as Subjects Roundtable, West Virginia University (Morgantown, W.V.)
- October 22: Roundtable on Civil War Wests, Western History Association Meeting (Portland, OR)
Speaking Schedule: 2014
- January 23: Out of Rubble Gallery Opening and Plenary (Gettysburg, Pa.)
- February 7-8: Civil War and the West Symposium: Autry National Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- February 19: Rhode Island Civil War Roundtable
- March 19: Keynote Speaker, Graduate Student Symposium, Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Va.)
- March 25: Invited Lecture, High Point University Department of History (High Point, N.C.)
- March 29: Invited Participant, University of Georgia Graduate Student Symposium (Athens, Ga.)
- April 9: Invited Lecture, Frances Summersell Center for the Study of the South, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
- June 20-25: Faculty, Civil War Institute 2014 (Gettysburg, Pa.)
- June 25: Central Massachusetts Civil War Roundtable (Holden, Mass.)
- July 17: Principal Faculty, NEH summer institute, “The Visual Culture of the American Civil War,” City University of New York (New York, New York)
- October 18: Invited Speaker, Stones River National Battlefield Park Civil War Symposium (Murfreesboro, Tenn.)