Military Historians are People, Too!
Join Georgia Southern University military history professors Brian Feltman and Bill Allison as they chat with fellow military historians, public historians, scholars of war and society, and other exciting people about military history, career paths, BBQ, and life in general…
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S7E2 Steve Vogel - Journalist and Historian (opens the original)
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Today's guest is historian and Washington Post journalist Steve Vogel . Born in West Berlin as the Wall went up, Steve was there decades later as a journalist when it came down in 1989. He's reported from the streets of DC, the Pentagon during 9/11, the Gulf War, Iraq, the Balkans, Rwanda - he's seen a lot. Like Washington Post colleague Rick Atkinson, whom Steve worked first worked for in Berlin, he's turned to his lifelong passion: military history. His books include The Pentagon: A History ,
From the Vault: S3E13 Kate Clarke Lemay - National Portrait Gallery/AHEC (opens the original)
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Our guest today is the artsy, funny, and brilliant Kate Clarke Lemay . Kate WAS s an historian at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, and is NOW the Director of the US Army Heritage and Education Center (AHEC) at Carlisle Barracks, PA. She was the lead historian for the signature exhibitions America’s Presidents and Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence . and is currently curating a major exhibition titled 1898: American Imperial Visions and Revisions , which will open on April
S7E1 Jessica H. Clark - Florida State University (opens the original)
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We're back with Season 7! Today's guest is Classicist Jessica H. Clark of Florida State University. Jessica is Professor of Classics and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Classics, coming to Tallahassee from California State University, Chico. Among her many scholarly pursuits, Jessica studies the Roman military during the Republic Period. Her publications include Triumph in Defeat: Military Loss and the Roman Republic (Oxford), Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancien
From the Vault: S3E12 David Kieran - Columbus State University (opens the original)
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Our guest today is the guitar-playing, hiking, marathon-running, American Studies guy-turned-historian David Kieran ! Dave is an Associate Professor and the Colonel Richard R. Hallock Distinguished Chair in Military History at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Before coming to Columbus State, he was associate professor and chair of the history department at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA, where he also served as coordinator for the American Studies program. Dave w
From the Vault: S3E11 Lesley Gordon - University of Alabama (opens the original)
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Our guest today is Civil War scholar Lesley Gordon . Lesley is the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama. Prior to moving to Tuscaloosa, she was a professor of history at the University of Akron, and she started her academic career at Murray State University. Lesley received her BA from the College of William and Mary, and her M.A. and PhD from the University of Georgia. Lesley’s first book General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (UNC Press) was a Hist
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