Augusta University Anthropology Lecturer Stacey Thompson joins The Research Report to talk about her new book, Augusta Arsenal, which she co-authored with David Tucker. The book is a pictorial history of the Arsenal, which now is Augusta University. The book, which includes nearly 200 photos, is published by Arcadia Publishing. Thompson is the director of the Guard House Museum on the Summerville Campus. The Research Report is anchored by Dr. David W. Bulla, chair of the Department of Communication at AU, and produced by Jasmine Garcia, who coordinates the TVCP Lab on the Summerville Campus. The opinions are those of the guest and anchor, not Augusta University. 

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On this episode of The Research Report, Professor Emerita of History Carol Sue Humphrey talks with host David W. Bulla about the press of the American Revolution and Early Republic Eras. Humphrey is the author ofThe Press of the Young Republic, 1783-1833 from Greenwood Press. She also wrote The American Revolution and the Press: The Promise of Independence with David Copeland (Northwestern University Press) and This Popular Engine: New England Newspapers During the American Revolution, 1775-1789 (University of Delaware Press). Humphrey, who taught at Oklahoma Baptist University and long served as secretary of the American Journalism Historians Association, gave the fifth annual Future of the First Amendment Lecture at Augusta University's JSAC Coffeehouse on March 10. The Research Report is a production of the Department of Communication at Augusta University. The opinions are those of the guest and host, not Augusta University. The producer is Jasmine Garcia. The podcast is recorded in the TVCP Lab in University Hall on the Summerville Campus of AU. 

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On this edition of The Research Report, Associate Professor Angela Zombek of the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington talks with host Professor David W. Bulla about her Civil War research. She is In Augusta to give the Hazel DIcken-Garcia Distinguished Lecture at the Sachsman Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, which is being held at Augusta University on NOv. 13-15, 2025. Zombek talks about her books Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War, from Kent State University Press, published in 2018, and Stronghold of the Union: Key West Under Martial Law, from the University Press of Florida. The comments and opinions of the guest and host are purely their own, and not those of Augusta University. This podcast is produced by Jasmine Garcia. The Research Report comes from the Department of Communication at Augusta University. It is recorded in the TVC Lab on the Summerville Campus of Augusta University. 

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On this edition of The Research Report from Augusta University, Assistant History Professor Melissa DeVelvis discusses her new book Gendering Secession: White Women and Politics in South Carolina, 1859–1861. Examining diaries and letters, Dr. DeVelvis looks at how Palmetto State women responded to the state's secession from the United States, which occurred on December 20, 1860. Her book was published by Cambridge University Press. Here is the link to the book. This podcast was produced by Jasmine Garcia, and David Bulla is the host. The Research Report is a production of the Department of Communication at Augusta University. The podcast is record in the TVC Lab in University Hall on the Summerville Campus of AU. The opinions stated here are those of the individuals, not Augusta University.

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On this edition of The Research Report, Jim Ogden, the historian at Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Parks, talks about doing history for the National Park Service.  He discusses his own education and work at these two key Civil War battle sites with host David Bulla. Ogden participated in the 32nd annual Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press. The comments and opinions of the guest and host are purely their own, and not necessarily the views of Augusta University. This podcast is produced by Jaxon Garner, and Jasmine Garcia is the director of the TVC Lab on the Summerville Campus of AU. 

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On this edition of The Research Report, Lincoln scholars Orville Vernon Burton of Clemson University and Greg Borchard of UNLV talk about research on Abraham Lincoln. Burton is the author of The Age of Lincoln, and Borchard is the author of Lincoln Mediated and Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley. They discuss with host David Bulla what upcoming Lincoln research they are working on--and what is still needed in Lincoln studies. Burton and Borchard were in Augusta as participants in the 32nd annual Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press. The comments and opinions of the guests and host are purely their own, and not necessarily the views of Augusta University. This podcast is produced by Jaxon Garner, and Jasmine Garcia is the director of the TVC Lab on the Summerville Campus of AU. The Research Report will soon have another episode with researchers at the  Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press. Have a good day.

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On this edition of The Research Report, Dr. Joel O. Iverson, communication professor at the University of Montana, discusses risk and crisis communication as it pertains to wildfires. Iverson works with U.S. Forest Service on communication strategies as community fire destruction has become a major national (and international) crisis, as witnessed this past summer with the fire in the town of Lahaina in Maui, Hawaii, or the 2018 fire in Paradise, California. The Research Report is produced by the Department of Communication at Augusta University. Dr. David Bulla is the host and producer. The audio engineer is Jasmine Garcia. The podcast is recorded in the TVC Lab in University Hall on the Summerville Campus of AU.  The opinions are those of the guest and the host, not those of Augusta University. 

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On this edition of The Research Report, Katrina Quinn, professor at Slippery Rock University, talks with David Bulla about her book The Civil War Soldier and the Press. Quinn wrote the book with the late David Sachsman and Dea Lisica. It is the latest in a series of books from the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression. It is published by Routledge.

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Dianne Bragg, Hub Burton, and Jennifer Moore join David Bulla for a discussion about the history of the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, which was started in the early 1990s by Dr. David Sachsman at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Sachsman was the West Chair of Excellence in the Department of Communication at UTC, and he ran the conference for three decades. A generation of mass communication historians cut their teeth at the conference, and the panelists discuss its impact on their careers. Bragg is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Alabama; Burton is a retired administrator from the University of Maine, and Moore is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Minnesota at Duluth. The Research Report is produced by Jasmine Garcia and Ethan Ballducci. It is recorded in the TVC Lab at Augusta University. It is a production of the AU Department of Communication, for which Bulla serves as chair. 

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Professor Emeritus of History Hubert van Tuyll and Professor of Political Science Craig Albert join David Bulla for a discussion on the war in Ukraine. Van Tuyll and Albert provide a historical, political and military analysis of the conflict. Ethan Balducci is the producer. The Research Report podcast is produced at the TVC Lab at Augusta University. The opinions are those of the panelists and host, not AU. The Research Report is produced by the Department of Communication at AU. Jasmine Garcia is the TVC Lab coordinator.

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