In our latest podcast, we interviewed Samantha Seeley of the University of Richmond about her recent book Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States. This is a fantastic book about the idea of free migration as central to American history, how this excluded both Black and Native people, and how they resisted, largely rejecting calls for colonization (for free Black populations) and using any means necessary to hold onto their lands (for Native populations). We explored these issues in the podcast, as well as the broader implications of his history of the Early Republic on the present. Check it out!

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Here is our midseason NFL podcast. I was very, very tired this week so I probably sound terrible. And yes, I am the Josh McDaniels of NFL prognostication so don’t listen to me if you are betting! This also can be an open thread for tonight’s excellent Bengals-Ravens matchup, neither of which feature Oregon legend Jevon Holland, featured above.

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For our latest podcast, I interviewed Stephen Kantrowitz of the University of Wisconsin about his new book Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States. We talked about a lot of big picture issues in this conversation, including the struggles of liberals to take our terrible history with Native Americans as seriously as we do Black history, what it is like to teach the Civil War era at a northern university and how centering Native history cuts against the “we’re good, the South is bad” narrative that northern students love these days, the ways in which the nation defined citizenship to exclude indigenous people, how the Ho-Chunk were able to adopt some of this language to create some legal claim on their land, etc. We also closed with me asking if it is time for a new big history of Reconstruction to replace Eric Foner’s great work since that work is now old enough that it doesn’t cover any of the new material on Native history in Reconstruction, which is not only a huge piece of the historiography, but which also severely undermines his narrative of freedom.

It was a great conversation and a great book. Check it out!

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On the latest LGM Podcast I spoke with my co-authors, Dr. Charles Dainoff of the University of Idaho and Dr. Geoffrey Williams of Transylvania University, about our new book Waging War with Gold. We talk through the origins of the project, what each of us brought to the book and took away from it, and how the lens of the “Finance Domain” changes our interpretation of wars past, present, and future. More information about the book is available here. Transcript is available here.

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Here’s the second part of our NFL preview podcast. Putting up early so you can listen to it if you want before the games and the LGM game thread at 1. So check it out. Good thing we were so bullish on the Lions before we recorded this! For once, it paid off!!

Let this serve as an open thread for the opening slate of Sunday NFL games. Transcript is here.

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WELCOME TO OPENING DAY OF THE NFL, A DAY FAR BETTER THAN CHRISTMAS, THANKSGIVING, NEW YEAR’S AND YANKEE ELIMINATION DAY COMBINED.

As you prepare to watch the Chiefs/Lions game tonight, perhaps consider checking out the first half of our NFL podcast, in which we preview the AFC, where 80% of the good NFL teams and good NFL quarterbacks are.

And free free to use this as an open thread for the game–but not non-sports bullshit and anyone who says “sportsball” is getting banned.

NFC preview will be up in a couple of days.

Transcript is here.

Let this serve as an open thread for tonight’s NFL season opener.

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Lemieux, Farley, and I did a sports rundown, mostly focused on baseball, though with Scott entering into a lengthy discussion about problems with race in hockey. Check it out.

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Yesterday Erik and I had the extraordinary pleasure of having a conversation with Rich Brooks, former coach of the Kentucky Wildcats, the St. Louis Rams, and of course the Oregon Ducks. We talked realignment, the challenges of modern college coaching, the role of money in the sport, the differences between the SEC and the Pac-10, and finally the growth and development of Oregon’s football program. See also this interview with Coach Brooks about realignment.

Transcript is here.

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As I mentioned Monday, our latest podcast explores the legacy of Robbie Robertson. Elizabeth, Rob and I look at a lot of aspects of Robbie’s career — the Band’s catalog, his modest (really) but brilliant guitar, his very entertaining but not-so-modest memoir, the Levon-Robbie wars, and the affection Rob and I still have for Robbie’s CanCon classic first Geffen solo album. Elizabeth not only agrees with my radical-on-Twitter position that songwriting credits should generally go to the person who wrote the song rather than the guy whose bar anecdote vaguely inspired some of the lyrics, but goes further in defending the songwriter’s prerogative in what I thought was a fascinating discussion. And we also talk about The Paranoid Style’s new single and forthcoming album.

I will have a couple of follow-up posts adding some relevant links, etc. to our discussion. But enjoy in the meantime!

Transcript is here.

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Some weeks back I had the chance to sit down with Joe Dans, Producer & Host of the Creativity & Tech Show for WTBQ & WGHT radio. We talked military technology and the cross-straits balance. Give it a listen if you have the chance…