This is an older episode that was previously published as a video. In the episode, I chat with Ana-Lucia Araujo about her new book Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past, which came out in October 2020 with Bloomsbury Academic.

Today we chat with Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes about their new book ⁠Great Plains Forts

This is an older episode that was previously published as a video. In the episode, I chat with Kevin Waite about his book West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, which was released by the University of North Carolina Press.

Today we chat with Benjamin T. Jenkins about his new book Octopus's Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California

This is an older episode that was previously published as a video. In the episode, I chat with Alaina E. Roberts about her book ⁠I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land⁠, by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Today we chat with James H. Read about his new book ⁠"Sovereign of a Free People: Abraham Lincoln, Majority Rule, and Slavery"

This is an older episode that was previously published as a video. In the episode, I chat with Jonathan Noyalas about his new book Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era, which was released by the University Press of Florida.

Today we chat with Mark R. Cheathem about his new book ⁠"Who Is James K. Polk? The Presidential Election of 1844"

This is an older episode that was previously published as a video. In the episode, I chat with Sarah Handley-Cousins about her book Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North, which came out in July 2019 with the University of Georgia Press.

Today we chat with Caryn Cossé Bell about her new book "Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877"