The Rogue Historian

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!