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