Speaking

I regularly give talks to university and public audiences about the American Civil War and other topics.

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.)