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S3E18 Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy - University of Virgnia
Military Historians are People, Too!
05/30/23 • 72 min
Our guest today is the brilliant and entertaining Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. Andrew is Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the former Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. From 2015-2022 he was the Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Andrew also spent thirteen years at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he served as the Chair of the Department of History and held the Rosebush Professorship. Andrew attended Columbia University before earning a BA, MA, and PhD in History from Oriel College at Oxford University.
Andrew is the author of The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University (University of Virginia Press), and is the co-editor with John Ragosta and Peter Onuf of The Founding of Thomas Jefferson’s University (University of Virginia Press) and European Friends of the American Revolution with John A. Ragosta and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press). Andrew is perhaps best known for The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the Revolutionary War and the Fate of Empire (Yale University Press), which won numerous awards, including the George Washington Book Prize, The Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award in US History, the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution’s Excellence in American History Book Award, and the New-York Historical Society Annual American History Book Prize. His first book, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (University of Pennsylvania), has now gone through its third printing. In addition, Andrew is widely published in many of the top journals in the field.
Andrew is an award-winning teacher and he has held numerous visiting professorships and fellowships. Most recently, he was a Visiting International Fellow at the Wilberforce Institute at Hull University. In 2016-17, he was the Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King’s College, London. Andrew is a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society and, of course, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Andrew first researched in an archive when he was only 15, and has never looked back. Join us as we chat about growing up in the US and the UK, the American War for Independence, the Grenadier Guards band, hosting Presidents at Monticello, and Virginia wines!
S3E11 Lesley Gordon - University of Alabama
Military Historians are People, Too!
04/11/23 • 58 min
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 History Book Club Selection. She published “This Terrible War”: The Civil War and its Aftermath with Daniel E. Sutherland and Michael Fellman in 2003 and the book is now in its third edition. In 2014, Lesley published A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War (LSU Press). She has also co-edited four volumes, including Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives, with Carol K. Bleser (Oxford), and Race and Gender at War: Writing American Military History, with Friend-of-the-Pod Andrew Huebner, which is forthcoming with the University of Alabama Press. She has also written more than a dozen essays and articles.
Lesley is extremely active in her field and she is currently the president of the Society of Civil War Historians. She chairs the editorial board at the University of Alabama Press and served on the editorial board of The Journal of the Civil War Era. She is a current member of the advisory board for Civil War Times. Since 2009, Lesley has been an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer.
Join us for a fun and fascinating chat with Lesley Gordon. We'll talk girls drawing Civil War soldiers in middle school, being a tour guide at Mark Twain's home, sports bandwagons, Noah Wyle, writing biography, a little Alison Krause, and Daisy Joines & The Six, so tune in!
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Rec.: 03/14/2023
S3 Bonus Brian K. Feltman - Georgia Southern University
Military Historians are People, Too!
03/30/23 • 56 min
By popular demand, we are finally interviewing each other! Today, Bill convinced Brian to sit down with him in Bill's American Military Experience class at Georgia Southern University for a live recording, in front of students no less!
Brian K. Feltman, not to be confused with the notorious other Brian Feltman from Georgia, is Professor of History (newly promoted!) at Georgia Southern University. He is a scholar of Modern Germany and the First World War and teaches courses on the same at Georgia Southern. He earned his BA and MA from Clemson University and his PhD from The Ohio State University.
Brian is the author of The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond (University of North Carolina), which won the Society for Military History’s Coffman Prize, and with Matthias Reiss co-edited Prisoners of War and Local Women in Europe and the United States, 1914-1956: Consorting with the Enemy (London: Palgrave, 2022). He has several essays in edited collections as well as articles in Gender & History, the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, and War in History. He is currently working on a book-length project titled Sacrifice on Display: The Culture of Everyday Remembrance in Germany, 1914-1933.
Brian is active in the German Studies Association and the Society for Military History, and is a Fellow of the Society for First World War Studies. He has held several fellowships and grants, including the Thyssen-Heideking Postdoctoral Fellowship at the German Historical Institute & Universität zu Köln, an Albert’s Researcher Reunion Grant also at the Universität zu Köln, a Deutscher Akademischer Austaush Dienst (DAAD) Grant at the Free University of Berlin, and several research support grants from Georgia Southern University.
Join us for what you asked for! We'll talk growing up in rural Upstate South Carolina, discovering German history, networking as a graduate student, and BBQ in Valdosta, Georgia, and we even let students ask some questions!
Rec.: 03/22/2023
S2E18 Jay Lockenour - Temple University
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11/01/22 • 63 min
Our guest today is Jay Lockenour. Jay is a Professor of History at Temple University, where he has been on the faculty since July 1996. He served as the Chair of the Department of History from 2014-2020, and the director of the MA program from 1996-2001 and again in 2005. Jay is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple and sits on the University’s Advisory Board, Center for the Advancement of Teaching. He started his academic career as a visiting assistant professor at Franklin and Marshall College and he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy in 2013-2014. Jay received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jay is the author of two monographs, Soldiers as Citizens: Former Wehrmacht Officers in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1955 (University of Nebraska Press, 2001) and Dragonslayer: The Life and Legend of Erich Ludendorff (Cornell, 2021). His articles have been published in the Journal of Military History and The German Studies Review. His article “Black and White Memories of War: Victimization and Violence in West German War Films of the 1950s” won the Society for Military History’s Moncado Prize. Jay’s research has been supported by the German Academic Exchange (DAAD), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and many others. He is a highly decorated teacher and has won four teaching awards at Temple.
Jay has been part of the digital scene for decades. He was an editor for H-German back in the list serv’s early days and served as the host of the New Books in Military History podcast from 2009-2019. Join us as we discuss with Jay making career choices, learning German, doing research in Germany, Porsches, and The Clash!
Shout-out, by the way, to the National BBQ and Grilling Association in Douglas, Georgia!
Rec.: 09/15/2022
S2 Bonus Short: Jahnyiah Davis - Georgia Southern University
Military Historians are People, Too!
10/25/22 • 15 min
Today Bill recorded live from a Historical Methods class at Georgia Southern University. For the record, Brian is doing a Huey Lewis - he's "working for a living" teaching a class, so Bill was left without a minder (very dodgy). Apparently, students in this class expressed an interest in history podcasting, so they got in touch with us (which may not have been the best decision). To show how the Military Historians are People, Too! podcast works, Bill is interviewing one of the students in the class - Jahnyiah Davis. Jahnyiah is a McNair Scholar and History Major at Georgia Southern University from Perry, Georgia (also home to Georgia State Fair!). We'll talk about her background, how she came to Georgia Southern, why she decided to major in history, and, of course, her BBQ preference!
Special thanks to Prof. Cathy Skidmore-Hess for inviting Bill to invade her class and to her students for their interest in podcasting! So, enjoy this Bonus Short with an undergraduate history major! We hope the class got something out of it and that you will, too.
Rec.: 10/25/2022
S2E14 Susannah Ural - University of Southern Mississippi
Military Historians are People, Too!
10/04/22 • 61 min
Our guest today is the absolutely delightful Susannah Ural! Susannah J. Ural is a professor of history and co-director of the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. She also directs USM’s Center for Digital Humanities. Susannah was previously the Charles W. Moorman Distinguished Alumni Professor of the Humanities at USM and the Blount Professor of Military History at the Dale Center. Before coming to USM, Susannah was an associate professor at Sam Houston State University. She earned her BA in History and Political Science at the University of Vermont and her MA and PhD in History at Kansas State University.
Susannah is a prolific scholar of the American Civil War. Her books include Hood’s Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy's Most Celebrated Unit (Louisiana State University Press); Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: Soldiers and Families in America’s Civil War (Osprey); The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 (NYU Press). She also edited a collection of essays titled Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict (NYU Press), and her work has been published in the Journal of Military History, The Journal of the Civil War Era, and America’s Civil War.
Susannah was awarded the Mississippi Historical Society’s Merit Award for her work on the Beauvoir Veteran Project and the Edwin H. Simmons Award for service to the Society for Military History. In addition, she has received teaching awards from Kansas State, Sam Houston State, and USM. Susannah has been a member of the Society for Military History’s Board of Trustees since 2019. She is the former chair of the Editorial Board at The Journal of Military History and currently serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of the Civil War Era. Her digital history work includes the fascinating Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project. We could go on, but the point is that Susannah Ural is in the know when it comes to the Civil War.
We'll discuss why unit history is important, the use of digital history, Brett Favre and his current woes, quiet-time near the deer feeder in the backyard, and, of course, BBQ. Join us for a fun and interesting chat with Susannah Ural! Shout-outs to Lucky Rabbit fleamarket in Hattiesburg and Adams Nursery and Garden Center in Petal, Mississippi! And follow Susannah on Twitter @susannahjural!
Rec.: 09/23/2022
S2E9 Randy Papadopoulos - US Navy Staff
Military Historians are People, Too!
08/02/22 • 89 min
Since June 2021, Dr. Sarandis (Randy) Papadopoulos is a Senior Strategy Analyst with the US Navy Staff. He previously served as the Secretariat Historian in the Department of the Navy since 2010 and was a historian with the Navy Heritage Command from 2000-2010. Randy is also an experienced teacher, having taught courses on a range of military history and international relations topics at George Washington University and the University of Maryland at College Park. He received his BA in History from the University of Toronto before earning an MA in Military and Naval History from the University of Alabama. Randy then received his PhD from George Washington University, working with Ronald Spector.
Randy is principal co-author with Alfred Goldberg, et al, of Pentagon 9/11 (Washington: USGPO, 2007), which is a must-read for anyone interested in the Sept. 11 attacks. Most recently, he co-edited Conceptualizing Maritime and Naval Strategy: Festschrift for Captain Peter M. Swartz, United States Navy (ret.) (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020). He has also authored more than a dozen articles and essays on naval power and submarine warfare. Randy’s dedication to the discipline of military history is unsurpassed. He has served as Vice President & Trustee of the Society for Military History, and currently serves as the Society for Military History’s delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies. The Society for Military recognized Randy’s service to the organization in 2022 by awarding him the Edwin H. Simmons Award for service to the Society for Military History. He has also received the Department of the Navy Award for Distinguished and Superior Civilian Service, and the Navy Civilian Service Achievement Medal. Randy is also active in the US Commission on Military History and has held the offices of vice-president and president of that organization.
Randy has been the long-time organizer of the Military Classics Seminar in the DC area, which often meets at Ft. Myers. If you attend the Society for Military History annual conference, you'll see Randy, often!
So tune in - Randy has the inside take on official military history, "For All Mankind," and techno-pop, and shares his Greek-Canadian-US background, and learning German the hard way. Check it out!
Rec.: 07/20/2022
S2E8 JP Clark - US Army War College
Military Historians are People, Too!
07/26/22 • 76 min
As listed on his own webpage, Colonel JP Clark is “an army officer and historian.” He is a new instructor in the Department of Military Strategy, Planning, and Operations, at the US Army War College in Carlisle, PA, where he also served as Director of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute in 2018-2019. Prior to serving at the War College, Colonel Clark did two stints as a uniformed instructor in the Department of History at the US Military Academy at West Point. He completed a BS in Russian-German Language with a concentration in Systems Engineering. He later earned an MA and PhD in history from Duke University and also has a master's degree in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College.
JP started his military career as an armor officer and served in northern Iraq, but shifted to the Strategist MOS, in which he has severd for several years. Among other appointments, he did stints in the Immediate Office of the Secretary of the Army and the Army Transition Team for the Chief of Staff-designate, and was an exchange officer with the Initiatives Group of the British Army’s Chief of the General Staff. JP is the author of Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815-1917 (Harvard University Press, 2017) and Striking the Balance: U.S. Army Force Posture in Europe, 2028 (Strategic Studies Institute, 2020), which he co-wrote with C. Anthony Pfaff. JP has also authored numerous articles and essays in such publications as Parameters, Military Review, War Room, The Strategy Bridge, British Army Review, The Three Swords, War on the Rocks, Strategos, and Armor, and is a podcaster himself with the Army War College's excellent pod War Room.
JP is an experienced researcher, military educator, and soldier, and we’re going to try to get to all of it. And in case you are wondering - yep, Fury and Kelly's Heroes are go-to-war film choices! He's even bringing the kids up on Blackadder AND Monty Python. Enjoy our chat with JP Clark!
Rec.: 07/18/2022
S2E7 Debbie Gershenowitz - University of North Carolina Press
Military Historians are People, Too!
07/19/22 • 87 min
Debbie Gershenowitz is an executive editor at the University of North Carolina Press, where she both acquires and edits manuscripts. It is worth mentioning that Debbie works out of UNC's “northern office” in NYC. Debbie earned a BA in History from Clark University and an MA in the same discipline at Indiana University. Her historical interests are extensive, and include but are not limited to black history, borderlands, military history, women, gender, and sexualities, and Latinx history. She favors bottom-up histories that give voice to underrepresented people and institutions. Debbie oversees four series at Chapel Hill, including the New Cold War History series.
Before joining UNC press in 2019, Debbie spent more than seven years as Senior Acquisitions Editor for American and Latin American History at Cambridge University Press after serving Senior Editor in History & Law at NYU Press for ten years. She also served as an acquisitions editor for Palgrave MacMillan’s History list and was a reference editor for Scribner. Debbie started her career working in journals, first at the American Historical Review, then with Perspective Publishing in the UK.
If you are an academic, you have likely seen Debbie at one of the many conferences she attends each year, and she also provides a great service to our profession by frequently participating in publishing roundtables at conferences around the country. Debbie has played a tremendous role in shaping military history published by university presses, and we are excited to hear what she has to say about the academic press business. Pay close attention - Big 10 expansion, David Bowie, the Hartford Whalers, and Brooklyn hipsters sneak into the conversation!
Rec.: 07/11/2022
S4 Bonus Bill Allison - Georgia Southern University
Military Historians are People, Too!
09/05/23 • 78 min
As we prepare to kick off Season 4, by popular demand and return of the favor today Brian interviews Bill! Bill Allison is Professor of History and former chair of the Department of History at Georgia Southern University. He started his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of St. Francis (Indiana) and then spent several years at Weber State University. Bill earned a BA and MA in History at East Texas State University and took his PhD at Bowling Green State University, where he started as a diplomatic historian before embracing military history. He has done several stints in professional military education, first as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Strategy and International Security at the USAF Air War Colle,ge followed by a Distinguished Professorship in Military History at the USAF School for Advanced Air and Space Studies. From 2012-2014, he was General Harold K. Johnson Visiting Chair in Military History at the US Army War College.
Bill is the author of several books, including My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War (Johns Hopkins), Military Justice in Vietnam: The Rule of Law in an American War (University Press of Kansas), and The Gulf War, 1990-1991 (Palgrave). His first book, American Diplomats in Russia: Case Studies in Orphan Diplomacy, 1916-1919 (Praeger) was published in 1997. He is co-author with Janet Valentine and the late Jeffrey Grey of American Military History: A Survey from Colonial Times to the Present (Routledge), which is now in its third edition.
Bill's professional service is a sign of his dedication to our profession. He is a former Trustee and Vice-President of the Society for Military History and was awarded the Society's Edwin Simmons Award for Distinguished Service in 2019. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Military History and is series editor for Routledge's Critical Moments in American History Series and Modern War Studies at the University Press of Kansas. In 2014, he was awarded the Department of the Army's Meritorious Public Service Medal. In June 2023, Bill served as the Program Director at the Society for Military History Summer Seminar in Military History, held at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, and he is a current member of the Department of the Army's Historical Advisory Subcommittee.
Join us for a fun and interesting chat with one of the co-hosts of Military Historians are People, Too! We'll talk growing up in East Texas, Vietnam, music, guitars, blocked algebra memories, reinventing yourself, and Rudy's BBQ in Texas!
Rec.: 08/18/2023
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