War of the Rebellion Podcast

For this episode, we get to chat with Robert D. Bland about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation

For this episode, we get to chat with Erika Pani about her book ⁠⁠⁠⁠Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848–1867.

For this episode, we get to chat with Mark F. Ehlers about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠Napoleon in America: Bonaparte and the Rhetoric of US Empire.

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

Today we chat with Louis A. Pérez Jr. about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Today we chat with J. Matthew Ward about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War

Today we chat with Andrew R. Parnell about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Forgotten Man: Walter Hines Page, New South Visionary

Today we chat with Mike Bunn about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠This Southern Metropolis: Life in Antebellum Mobile

Today we chat with Paul M. Pressly about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country

Today we chat with Frank W. Garmon about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam’s Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age

Today we chat with Natalie A. Zacek about her book ⁠⁠⁠⁠Thoroughbred Nation: Making America at the Racetrack, 1791-1900

Today we chat with Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown about their book ⁠⁠⁠Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance

Today Andrew Houck and Niels Eichhorn chat with Gettysburg College Professor Scott Hancock about 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.Please check out this video, which we chat about as well:https://youtu.be/Fg9nX67WxjI?si=0KzE302QElVbzLx4

Today Andrew Houck and Niels Eichhorn chat with Nicole Etcheson about her book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era⁠⁠. As her book just had its Twentieth Anniversary, Andrew, Nicole, and Niels chat about the book's continued importance and Civil War Causation historiography.

Today we chat with Shae Smith Cox about her book ⁠⁠The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939

Today we chat with Ryan P. Semmes about his new book ⁠Exporting Reconstruction: Ulysses S. Grant and a New Empire of Liberty

Today we chat with Sandra E. Bonura about her new book The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels

Today we chat with Sydney Nathans about his new book Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile

Today Andrew Houck and Niels Eichhorn chat with Ben H. Severance about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠Tennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard and its Role in Reconstruction, 1867-1869⁠. As his book approaches its Twentieth Anniversary, Andrew, Ben, and Niels chat about the book's continued importance and Reconstruction historiography.

Today we chat with Christina Cecelia Davidson about her book Dominican Crossroads: H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation

Today we chat with Marco Cabrera Geserick about his book The Legacy of the Filibuster War: National Identity and Collective Memory in Central America

Today Andrew Houck and I chat with William F. Hartford about his new book ⁠⁠⁠⁠Adams and Calhoun: From Shared Vision to Irreconcilable Conflict

Today we chat with Ian Delahanty about his new book ⁠Embracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840-1865

Today we chat with Aaron W. Marrs about his new book The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History.

Today we chat with Maria R. Montalvo about her new book ⁠⁠⁠Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past

Today we chat with Shannon Eaves about her new book ⁠⁠Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South