From March 2017: “Jim Hall worked as a newspaper writer for decades. Now, he’s publishing history.”
Jim and Colin talk about Jim’s journalism career in Bowling Green and Fredericksburg and his long study of racial violence in Virginia, which he began as a graduate student at VCU. Now, he has a book that examines the last lynching in northern Virginia.
via Podcast 43: Jim Hall — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Feb. 2017: “Bud talks with Colin about studying at Emory, being in the White House when JFK died, and his relationship with Robert Duvall.”
Bud talks with Colin about studying at Emory, being in the White House when JFK died, and his relationship with Robert Duvall.
via Podcast 39: James I. Robertson — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Nov. 2016: “Colin’s recent visit to Fredericksburg took place in the wake of what historians should be calling the Revolution of 2016.”
Fredericksburg is a nice place to spend a day thinking about and experiencing history. It’s also a good place to get a cup of coffee. But Colin’s recent visit to Fredericksburg took place in the wake of what historians should be calling the Revolution of 2016.
via Podcast 32: Fredericksburg. The Revolution of 2016. — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Nov. 2016: “Gary and Colin talk about everything from Scorsese to Hitchcock, to D. W. Griffith and Spielberg (and how ‘Jaws’ may have both saved and ruined Hollywood).”
Gary Olsen lives in Virginia, but he grew up in the Boston area, where he studied film at Emerson College. After thirty years in the Justice Department, Gary now spends his retirement days lecturing on movies.
via Podcast 31: Gary Olsen — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Oct. 2016: “Ira Berlin has been called ‘one of the greatest living historians of slavery in the United States.’ “
Dr. Berlin talks about his first plane ride, activism in the 1960s, and why he chose to exchange a lab coat for the historian’s garb. Also, Ira and Colin share their thoughts about the 2016 election.
via Podcast 28: Ira Berlin — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Oct. 2016: “William C. Davis is one of the most prolific and prodigious of American historians.”
Over the past forty years, he has focused on the Civil War era and southern history, writing about everything from Jefferson Davis to the Texas Revolution to — as he shows in his newest book — a New Orleans prostitute who claimed to be a Confederate soldier.
via Podcast 27: William C. Davis — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Sept. 2016: “He is the author of ‘Reluctant Confederates’ and more recently ‘Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery.’ “
Here, he talks with Colin about growing up in Chicago, studying under C. Vann Woodward at Yale, and his adventures teaching in China, following in the footsteps of his missionary grandfather.
via Podcast 25: Daniel Crofts — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From July 2016: “Ed Ayers and Gary Gallagher are two of the best southern historians working today.”
Ed Ayers and Gary Gallagher are two of the best southern historians working today. Ed Ayers is from Tennessee, taught at UVA, and is now president emeritus and professor at the University of Richmond. Gary Gallagher came to UVA by way of Penn State, University of Texas, Colorado, and Los Angeles. Both are now working in the field of Civil War studies.
via Podcast 15: Ed Ayers and Gary Gallagher — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From April 2016: “James McPherson is the Dean of Civil War historians.”
He has also won the Lincoln Prize twice, for “For Cause and Comrades:Why Men Fought in the Civil War” and “Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief.” He is the author more recently of “Embattled Rebel” and “The War that Forged a Nation” both published in 2015.
via Podcast, Episode 9: James M. McPherson — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
From Feb. 2016: “Perhaps the best example of the do-it-for-free trap is the book review.”
Teaching can be a very rewarding job — financially and personally. Unfortunately, however, many academics, especially aspiring ones, do far too much for free. Often, it’s part of their job. Other times, it becomes a kind of borderline bad habit. And yet, it’s easy for historians to get into the habit of writing or talking too often for free. Perhaps the best example of the do-it-for-free trap is the book review.
via Historians and the Do-It-for-Free Trap — Amerikan Rambler: Everybody Has a Story
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