Niels Eichhorn

Hive mind: couple students and myself have taken on the school archive. We discovered a number of photos and negatives from the 1990s that are stuck together due to moisture or maybe getting wet. Is there anyway to salvage them?

Of course, we are also awaiting @civilwarmemory.bsky.social biography of Colonel Shaw.

The movie Glory has introduced millions to the 54th MA, but few know John W. M. Appleton. Today, I chat with James Jewell and Eugene Van Sickle about Appleton and their book _Waging War for Freedom_ @utpress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2fNo... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Do scholars have a crystal ball? It is a question you almost want to ask @americanstudier.bsky.social when you read his book _Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism_ @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3LYd... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Education is crucial. Reconstruction witnessed the opening of schools for many formerly enslaved. I chat w/ AnneMarie Brosnan about her book _A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina_ @fordhampress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0emN... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

We look at medical history with Thomas Helling as we discuss his new book _Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South_ @upmississippi.bsky.social Southerners thought of their region as different, which impacted medicine. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... open.spotify.com/episode/1ozM...

@ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and I are back chatting with Scott Hancock about #gettysburg and Gettysburg NMP about the recent Gettysburg reenactment and other issues with commemoration and memory at the Gettysburg battlefield. open.spotify.com/episode/51k7... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

What a great honor to co-author and published an article with a great student, scholar, and friend. @legg.bsky.social

20 Years of Republican Party during the Civil War scholarship has changed. @ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and I chat with Michael S. Green about _Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and his Party during the Civil War_ Fordham Press open.spotify.com/episode/6BdA... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

I have enjoyed Louis A. Perez's work since I read _War of 1898_. I had a chance to chat with Lou about one of his new books _Colonial Reckoning_ @dukepress.bsky.social‬ that looks at the Ten Years War and Independence War in Cuba.
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Military Occupation is a major topic in Civil War scholarship, especially in Louisiana with the likes of Benjamin Butler. J. Matthew Ward and I chat about _Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War_ @lsupress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7Bw3... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Today, Andrew R. Parnell and I dive into the history of Walter Hines Page, one time editor-in-chief of @theatlantic.com , as well as US Ambassador in London during WWI. We discuss Parnell's _The Forgotten Man_ @ugapress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5L3Y... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

#Mobile is a historic port city that was the cotton export center of Alabama, a seasonal commercial metropolis. Mike Bunn and I chat about Antebellum Mobile and his recent book _This Southern Metropolis_ @ugapress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2dDH... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

If you have access to C-Span 3, on Sunday May 25 at 2pm, you can watch the talk Duncan Campbell and I did at Shenandoah University about our book The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism. www.c-span.org/schedule/?ch... Or you can watch a recording here archive.org/details/CSPA...

Georgia's Sea Island, Spanish Florida, and the Muscogee Homeland offered runaway slaves different avenues to freedom. I chat with Paul Pressly about his provocative book _A Southern Underground Railroad_ @ugapress.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/3lqM... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

The 19C was an era where conman thrived and could make fortunes but also make a career out of lying. I chat with Frank Garmon about his book _A Wonderful Career in Crime_ from @lsupress.bsky.social where he introduces Charles Cowlam open.spotify.com/episode/00Je... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

In 2015, I took students on a summer trip. In their reflections, one of my students, conservative and only desiring to get a history degree to be a school coach, wrote an "interesting" paper. See two passages below. As the #nationalparkservice faces major cuts, their prediction rings sadly true.

If you enjoy horse racing or #KentuckyDerby, you will enjoy my conversation with Natalie Zacek about her new book _Thoroughbred Nation: Making America at the Racetrack, 1791-1900_ with @lsupress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... open.spotify.com/episode/3O8u...

The Zouave was a fancifully dressed, fiercely independent soldier with many imitators. I chat with Carol Harrison & Tom Brown about their book _Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance_ @lsupress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3AZi... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/z...

#gettysburg and Gettysburg NMP are important sites in the nation's memory landscape. Today, @andrewhouck.bsky.social and I chat with Scott Hancock about Gettysburg especially inclusive remembering and Lost Cause celebration open.spotify.com/episode/0bpi... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

I remember those stories. Reading the comments from the design company is not reassuring the museum will turn out well.

In another book anniversary podcast episode, @ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and I chat with Nicole Etcheson about her book _Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era_ open.spotify.com/episode/0DPD... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Can we know what Civil War uniforms looked like? Today we explore that and other material culture questions with @shaesmithcox.bsky.social as we talk about her book _The Fabric of Civil War Society_ @lsupress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/05UI... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

How did the idea of Great Reconstruction expand into foreign policy? Today, I chat with @semmesryan.bsky.social about his new book _Exporting Reconstruction: Ulysses S. Grant and a New Empire of Liberty_ Check out the podcast below open.spotify.com/episode/2Vy2... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Benefit of living abroad, being totally oblivious to that kind of stuff. Ironically, I asked my wife in the store this morning when the Super Bowl was.

We have a new review of _The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism_ It is an honor to get compared to @kenlburns.bsky.social's Civil War Documentary. More so, it is refreshing to see some love for the last chapters and comparative memory does need more attention repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol26/i...

For Ep 25, I chat with Sandra Bonura about her new book _The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels_ @univnebpress.bsky.social Claus Spreckels, a German immigrant, accomplished the American dream as a sugarbeet baron open.spotify.com/episode/5pZZ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

To start the year, I chat with Sydney Nathans about plantation slavery and the odyssey of Virgil Bennehan, which he chronicles in _Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile_ @uncpress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3Srq... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

I am not surprised. We visited a few years ago and the amount of creative word choice selection to cloud the truth was interesting.

No. Pears, bean, bacon, potato is a pool man main