The Rogue Historian

Chris and I discuss some of the finer points in public history.  Disclaimer: the views expressed on this episode of The Rogue Historian do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Park Service or Gettysburg National Military Park 

Rick and I discuss his new book, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home  

I love having guests who share my passion! Kate, a veteran herself, weighs in on recent scholarship on Civil War vets and offered some new and quite valuable perspective. Listen up!! 

I was reading though Dr. Robert Greene II's excellent blog, 40 Acres and a Starship ...and he got me to thinking. It's a good thing, y'all. 

A great chat  about celebrity dogs, American identity, and local history with Kelli Huggins, the author of Curiosities of Elmira . Animal loves (and everyone else) enjoy the show! 

Richard Bell’s new book, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home ,  is a beautifully crafted narrative tracing the story of five young boys - free African Americans from Philadelphia - who were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 1820s.

Niels and I discuss his first book, Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War ...and think about the American Civil War in global terms. For realz.

I’ve wanted Matt on the show for ages…for the simple reason that he knows his Civil War history and makes me laugh when he discusses it.

I took a crack at “Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken”: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg, July 4-14, 1863 by Thomas J. Ryan and Richard R. Schaus - and I think you can tell that I liked it :) 

Cory and I hash it out over the arguments in his new book, , Longstreet at Gettysburg: A Critical Reassessment.  

This was a fantastic and very enlightening interview…and I am especially happy because Ashleigh’s forthcoming work on black intellectual activity will most certainly influence my own work.

Greetings! Today I am reviewing Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow . by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Black people - their voices, their aspirations, their actions - take center stage in Gates’s book, and rightfully so. Have a listen. 

Julio and I discuss his book Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940 - about a city that embraced gender and sexuality difference long before the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. This is fascinating stuff that helps broaden our understanding of a transnational borderland.

The United States is currently in the midst of an opioid crisis...but it's not the first time this has happened. I speak with Jonathan Jones about "opium slavery" and Civil War veterans. Tragic indeed. 

It was great to have Diane on the show...we discussed her latest book, Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War Era South . And...she schooled me on some stuff about which I was misinformed. I love it when that happens :) 

I was very happy to speak with Matt Clavin, a professor of history at the University of Houston. We take on his most recent publication, The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community . Listen up y'all - this is a very good show. 

I'm stoked to welcome Pat to the show - when he not at work practicing immigration law in New York, he's busy blogging some first-rate stuff on the Civil War and Reconstruction. You'll for sure know him the Immigrant's Civil War series and the Reconstruction Era blog. 

James Longstreet can't catch a break...and folks love to hate on him. Pfarr's book attempts to resurrect the general's reputation. 

We get right down to discussing the finer points of 19th-century masculinity during and following the Civil War and how soldiers’ damaged minds and bodies compromised Victorian standards of masculinity.

I am always happy to speak with folks who have an interesting and innovative approach to exploring their passion for history. Today I speak with Todd Adyelotte - an ultrarunner who traces some of New York City's most salient historical events...one mile at a time! 

Okay admit it. The Peach Orchard at Gettysburg confuses the hell out of you. Want to figure it out and impress your friends on the battlefield? Grab a copy of this book. 

It's great to welcome Kevin BACK to the show...we discuss his new book, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth - and get down to why the myth is so compelling to so many. We also talk about blogging as academics and using social media effectively. Listen up!! 

It was great to speak to NPS ranger Nick Sacco about his work in public history at the Ulysses S. Grant Historic Site in St. Louis Mo. 

Join me as I speak with Heath Hardage Lee about the women who defied gender assumptions and red tape to lobby the US government and bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. 

Ronald D. Kirkwood's new study, “ Too Much for Human Endurance”: The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg , really helps us understand the significance of a vital piece of farmland just east of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge.