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.
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)
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)
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
- March 20: Keynote Address, Bertoti Graduate Conference, Virginia Tech [canceled]
- March 24: Lecture, University of Buffalo/Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site [postponed]
- May 4: Tattered Cover Bookstore (Colfax location) [canceled; possibly virtual]
- May 9: Pikes Peak Region History Lecture, Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum [canceled; possibly virtual]
- May 27: Boston Athenaeum
- June 6: Quail Ridge Books event with Tim Silver and Judkin Browning
- June 14: Filmed Lecture for C-SPAN3, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College [air date TBD]
- June 17: Massachusetts Historical Society
- June 25: Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky
- August 9: Franklin, Tenn. Civil War Roundtable
- September 29: Clements Center for Southwestern Studies, Southern Methodist University
- October 8: Penn State University
- October 21: Oklahoma State University
- November 12: University of Kentucky
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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)