Niels Eichhorn

For those headed over to Mastodon, you can find me at @nielseichhorn@h-net.social Of BlueSky @nielseichhorn.bsky.social

I have enjoyed Louis A. Perez's work since I read _War of 1898_. I had a chance to sit down with Lou and chat about one of his new books _Colonial Reckoning_ @DukePress that looks at the Ten Years War and Independence War in Cuba. open.spotify.com/episode/4erLrg… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/war…

Military Occupation is a major topic in Civil War scholarship, especially in Louisiana with the likes of Benjamin Butler. @jmatthewward23 and I chat about _Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War_ @lsupress open.spotify.com/episode/7Bw3jl… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gar…

Today, Andrew R. Parnell and I dive into the history of Walter Hines Page, one time editor-in-chief of @TheAtlantic, as well as US Ambassador in London during WWI. We discuss Parnell's book _The Forgotten Man_ with UGA Press open.spotify.com/episode/5L3Y3r… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

#Mobile is a historic port city that was the cotton export center of Alabama, a seasonal commercial metropolis. Mike Bunn (@blakeleypark) and I chat about Antebellum Mobile and his recent book _This Southern Metropolis_ UGA Press open.spotify.com/episode/2dDHYW… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thi…

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. c-span.org/schedule/?chan… Or you can watch a recording here archive.org/details/CSPAN2…

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

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 new book _A Wonderful Career in Crime_ from @lsupress where he introduces Charles Cowlam open.spotify.com/episode/00JeK8… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-w…

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, it has become 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 We talk about many historic tracks podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tho… open.spotify.com/episode/3O8u4k…

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

#gettysburg and @GettysburgNMP are important sites in the nation's memory landscape. Today, @AHouckinFrance and I chat with @scotthancockOT about Gettysburg especially inclusive remembering and Lost Cause celebration open.spotify.com/episode/0bpiwl… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con…

In another book anniversary podcast episode, @AHouckinFrance and I chat with Nicole Etcheson about her book _Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era_ @Kansas_Press open.spotify.com/episode/0DPDS1… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ble…

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

How did the idea of Great Reconstruction expand into foreign policy? Today, I chat with Ryan Semmes about his new book _Exporting Reconstruction: Ulysses S. Grant and a New Empire of Liberty_ Check out the podcast below: open.spotify.com/episode/2Vy2Oo… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exp…

My review of @niels_eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell’s “The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism” was published in Civil War Book Review (@lsupress & @CWBookReview) repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol26/iss…

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

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_ @UNC_Press @HistStagville open.spotify.com/episode/3Srq2x… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fre…

Today, @AHouckinFrance and I chat with Ben Severance about his book _Tennessee's Radical Army_ published 20 years ago by @utennpress We explore Reconstruction Historiography, the importance of state history studies, and Governor Brownlow. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ten…

"Provides an excellent and thorough overview of the age of nationalism and the Civil War’s place within that larger story."—@FilsonHistory's Ohio Valley History on "The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism," by @niels_eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell: bit.ly/4g9z2ky

I continue the podcast's venture into Latin America with @CeceDavidson. We talk about her excellent new book _Dominican Crossroads H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation_ @DukePress open.spotify.com/episode/5INtEZ… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dom…