For this episode, Andrew Houck and I chat with Timothy B. Smith about military history, working for the National Park Service, historic battlefields, and memory.

For this episode, we get to chat with David T. Ballantyne about his book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fractured Freedoms: Reconstructing Central Louisiana

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.