War of the Rebellion Podcast

For this episode, we get to chat with Timothy Mason Roberts about his book ⁠ ⁠⁠ After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires.

For this episode, we get to chat with Beau Cleland about his book ⁠ ⁠⁠ Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy.

For this episode, we get to chat with Eran A. Zelnik about his book ⁠ ⁠ American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750–1850.

For this episode, we get to chat with Eric C. Smith about his book ⁠ ⁠ Between Worlds: John A. Broadus, the Southern Baptist Seminary, and the Prospects of the New South .

For this episode, we get to chat with Isadora Moura Mota about her book ⁠ Freedom's Horizon: Black Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil .

For this episode, Andrew Houck and I chat with Court Carney, author of ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory ⁠ , about Shelby Foote and the Ken Burns' Civil War Documentary.

For this episode, we get to chat with Jack Furniss about his book Between Extremes: Seeking the Political Center in the Civil War North .

For this episode, we get to chat with Bridget Bennett about her book ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic: Archives and Unquiet Libraries, 1776–1865 ⁠⁠ .

For this episode, we get to chat with Jennifer Lynn Gross about her book ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New South ⁠ . I tried a new recording platform and the audio was not quite to par, sorry.

Today we chat with Elizabeth D. Leonard about her book ⁠⁠ ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky

For this episode, we get to chat with Court Carney about his book ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory .

For this episode, we get to chat with Damian Shiels about his book ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865

For our fiftieth episode, we get to chat with Sarah K. M. Rodríguez about her book ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ One National Family: Texas, Mexico, and the Making of the Modern United States, 1820–1867

For our holiday episode, we chat with Robert E. May about his book ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Debunking the Yule Log Myth: The Disturbing History of a Plantation Legend

Today we chat with Andrew Sillen about his book ⁠⁠ ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White

Today Andrew Houck and I continue our conversation with Benjamin Railton about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism

Today we chat with Amy Murrell Taylor about her book ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Divided Family in Civil War America

Today we chat with Craig Thompson Friend about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas

Today we chat with Jonathan D. Neu about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Our Onward March: The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era

Today we chat with James Robbins Jewell and Eugene S. Van Sickle about their edited memoir ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Waging War for Freedom with the 54th Massachusetts: The Civil War Memoir of John W. M. Appleton

Today we chat with Benjamin Railton about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism

Today we chat with AnneMarie Brosnan about her book ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina During the Civil War and Reconstruction

Today we chat with Thomas Helling about his book ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South

Today Andrew Houck and Niels Eichhorn chat with Gettysburg College Professor Scott Hancock about his experiences at the July 2025 reenactment and the memory landscape at Gettysburg National Military Park. We chat about various issue related to Gettysburg's memory landscape and Scott Hancock's work in complicating the Civil War history.

Today we chat with Michael S. Green about his book ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party in the Civil War