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  • Today's special Leap Year guest is World War II social historian and oral history advocate G. Kurt Piehler. Kurt is the Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience at Florida State University. He has held academic appointments at the City University of New York and Drew University, and was the founding director of the Rutgers Oral History Archives and served as Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee. He was a Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies at Kobe University and Kyoto University and served as a National Historical Publications and Records Commission Fellow in Historical Editing at the Peale Family Papers in the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery (that's a mouthful!). Kurt earned his BA in History at Drew University before taking an MA and PhD at Rutgers.

    Kurt is the author of A Religious History of the American GI in World War II (Nebraska), Remembering War the American Way (Smithsonian Institution Press) and World War II (Greenwood), which is part of the American Soldiers' Lives series. He edited the Encyclopedia of Military Science (2013) and The United States in World War II: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell). He has co-edited at least five volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of World War II. Kurt is the series editor of Fordham University Press' World War II: The Global, Human, Ethical Dimension series and the Legacies of War series at the University of Tennessee Press. He is on the advisory board of the NEH-funded American Soldier Project at Virginia Tech University (Shoutout to GFOP Ed Gitre!) and a member of the editorial board of the Service Newspapers of World War II digital publication. Kurt is an active member of the Society for Military History, and he organized the 2003 annual meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the 2017 conference in Jacksonville, Florida (seriously, he did that TWICE!).

    Join us for a fun and fascinating chat with the very affable Kurt Piehler. We'll talk fun shirts, Fresh Meadows, congressional internships, Pink Martini, oral history and veterans' stories, and John le Carré novels, among many other topics. This is a good one (as they all are!)!

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    Rec.: 02/29/2024

  • Our guest today is a historian of the Civil War, the Vietnam era, and the prisoner-of-war experience - Glenn Robins in Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia. He formerly served as the Director of GSW University, and was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and spent one year at Brewton-Parker prior to his arrival in Americus. Glenn received his BA from Carson Newman College, an MA from East Tennessee State University, and his PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi. Glenn was a West Point Summer Fellow in 2009.

    Glenn is the author of The Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson (Kentucky), and The Bishop of the Old South: The Ministry and Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk (Mercer). He is the editor of They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry (Kent State), which was a finalist for the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, the co-editor of America and the Vietnam War: Re-Examining the Culture and History of a Generation (Routledge) and co-author with Paul Springer of Transforming Civil War Prisons: Lincoln, Lieber, and the Politics of Captivity (Routledge: 2014). Glenn’s new book, A Debt of Gratitude: How Jimmy Carter put Vietnam Politics on the National Agenda, is forthcoming from the University Press of Kansas.

    Join us for a very interesting chat with Glenn Robins. We'll talk chance and circumstance in becoming a historian, working for NASA, POWs, veterans in Congress, the Ford EXP, Eminem, and home-cooked viz retail BBQ!

    Rec.: 02/15/2024

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  • Today’s guest is the amazing teacher, Civil War historian, and former Gettysburg battlefield guide Dr. Jennnifer Murray. Jennifer is a teaching associate professor of history at Oklahoma State University and was formerly an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia at Wise and served as a historian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Jennifer was also, for several summers, a seasonal ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park and has led hundreds of battlefield tours. She earned a BS at Frostburg State University and an MA from James Madison University before being awarded a PhD from Auburn University.

    Jennifer is the author of On A Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933–2013 (Tennessee), which won the Bachelder-Coddington Award in 2014, and The Civil War Begins: Opening Clashes, 1861, which is part of the US Army Center of Military History’s Campaign Series. Her current book project is a biography of General George Gordon Meade. Jennifer has participated in dozens of Civil War Roundtables and has been featured on C-SPAN and NPR. She also consulted for “Who Do You Think You Are?” Jennifer is a member of the editorial board of Kent State University Press’ Interpreting the Civil War: Texts and Contexts Series and formerly served in the same capacity at Gettysburg Magazine.

    Join us for a fun and interesting chat with Jennnifer Murray. We’ll talk Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen, “Stump the Ranger,” college softball, Mrs. Maisel, and writing a massive biography of an often underrated Civil War general.

    Content warning: Brian reveals he has attended a Billy Joel concert!

    Shoutout to Wright’s BBQ in Johnson, Arkansas!

    Rec.: 02/16/2024

  • Today’s guest is the funny and brilliant Matthias Strohn. Matthias is Head of the Historical Analysis Program at the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research and an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Buckingham. Matthias has also served as a senior lecturer in War Studies at the UK Ministry of Defence and a Military History Instructor at the German Staff College in Hamburg. He is a Lieutenant-Colonel in the German Bundeswehr and as a member of the German Military Attaché Reserve served in Paris, London, and Madrid. Matthias deployed to Iraq with the British Army and Afghanistan with the British Army and Bundeswehr. In 2022, he was awarded the Golden Cross of Honour, the German Armed Forces’ highest non-combat decoration.

    Matthias was educated at the University of Münster before earning his MSt and DPhil at the University of Oxford. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including The German Army and the Defence of the Reich (Cambridge), How Armies Grow: The Expansion of Military Forces in the Age of Total War 1789-1945 (Casemate), Winning Wars: The Enduring Nature and Changing Character of Victory from Antiquity to the 21st Century (Casemate), and World War I Companion (Osprey). His forthcoming book Blade of a Sword: Ernst Jünger and the 73rd Fusilier Regiment on the Western Front, 1914–18, will be published by Osprey in 2025. Outside of his military and academic life, Matthias gives battlefield tours through The Cultural Experience.

    “So join us for an energetic and wide-ranging discussion of speaking English, studying at Oxford, growing up in Muenster (the “most livable place on Earth”), being a historian while deployed, Stalingrad staff rides, pink Stetsons, and Johnny Cash!

    Rec. 02/08/2024

  • Our guest today is Ohio University PhD candidate Cody J. Billock. Cody is a Fellow at the Contemporary History Institute Fellow at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he is completing a dissertation titled “Huế & The Global Vietnamese Civil War, 1945-1980,” under the direction of Alec Holcombe. Cody completed his BA and MA in History at San Diego State University, working with Pierre Asselin, and has studied at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi, Vietnam. Cody is the recipient of several Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) grants and is fluent in Vietnamese. He has worked in three of the four main national archives in Vietnam.

    Chatting with an advanced doctoral student is essential to what we do here on Military Historians are People, Too. Join us as we discuss growing up around Marines, high school doldrums, discovering Vietnam’s rich history, learning Vietnamese and working in Vietnam’s Nation Archives, White Buffalo, and Chakhokhbili! For our graduate student listeners - it’s great to hear from a young scholar.

    Shoutout to Kiser’s BBQ in Athens, Ohio!

    Rec.: 02/09/2024

  • Today's guest is the delightful First World War scholar Dr. Jennifer Wellington. Jennifer is Assistant Professor in Late 19th/20th Century Continental and Global History at University College, Dublin, where she is also a member of the UCD Centre for War Studies. She earned a BA in English and an LLB, both with Honors, at Australian National University, Canberra. At Canberra, she was awarded the Tillyard Prize, the "oldest and most prestigious prize available to bachelor degree students of the University." She later earned an MA, MPhil, and PhD at Yale University and was awarded the Hans Gatzke Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in a Field of European History. She was a postdoctoral researcher at King's College, London, before joining the faculty at UCD. In 2022-23, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College, London.

    Jennifer is the author of Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums and Memory in Britain, Canada and Australia (Cambridge). Her essays and articles have appeared in 1914-1918 Online: The International Encyclopedia of the First World War, The Journal of Contemporary History, and Century Ireland, among many others. Jennifer is on the Editorial Advisory Board at the British Journal of Military History and a Section Editor for 1914-1918 Online. Her current research examines the history of wartime trophy-taking.

    Join us for a really interesting chat with Jennifer Wellington. We'll talk about growing up in rural Australia (that narrows it down, right?), graduate studies at Yale, war museums and war art, the Priestly 11, Vegemite, and Moden Pizza in New Haven.Rec.: 02/01/2024

  • Today's guest is a historian of the Romanian military experience Grant Thomas Harward. Grant is a historian with the US Army Center of Military History in Washington, DC. Before going to Ft. McNair, Grant was a historian with the US Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage in San Antonio. He received his BA in History from Brigham Young University, then took an MA at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He completed his PhD at Texas A&M University, under Friend-of-the-Pod and brisket coneseur Roger Reese.

    Grant is the author of Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust (Cornell), which was awarded the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He is also the co-author, with Johnny Shumate, of the forthcoming book Romania 1944: The Turning of Arms against Nazi Germany (Osprey). Grant's articles have been published in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Studies in Ethnicity & Nationalism, Army History, and Air & Space Power History. In 2017, he was the Norman Raab Foundation Fellow at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He also held a Fulbright US Student Award to Romania in 2016-2017 and an Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship in 2013.

    Join us for a delightful and uplifting chat with Grant Harward. We'll discuss BYU quarterbacks, New Order, serving an LDS mission in Romania, the Battlefield documentary series, and the best Balkan food in DC, among many other topics. Lots packed in this one!

    Shoutout to Ambar Restaurant in Arlington, VA!

    Rec.: 12/28/2023

  • Our guest today takes into the world of women and war in Habsburg Spain. Sandra Suárez García is a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Modern and American History at the University of Granada in Spain. She studied History as an undergraduate at the University of Santiago de Compostela before earning two MA degrees at the University of Granada. She earned her PhD in History and Arts at Granada with a dissertation titled "Aristocratic Property in the Kingdom of Granada (13th-16th centuries): The Vega and the Periurban Surroundings of the Capital." Her current project, "Women and War in Habsburg Spain (16th century): Theory, Law and Praxis," is part of the research project "Narrations, Discourses, and Management of Memory and the Past of Agents and Intermediaries in the Hispanic Monarchy" (Europeans always have such long titles for these big projects!). Sandra is also a member of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action working group titled “People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean." She has published over a dozen articles in journals such as Historia Medieval and Medievalismo, and she has numerous articles currently under review in English and Spanish. She is fluent in four languages and reads a few more. She's participated in study programs in Germany, Italy, and Tunisia and was a visiting scholar at the University of Bologna (Italy).

    Join us for a delightful and interesting chat - we'll discuss women, war, and the historical record in the 16th century, reading about medicinal plants, pastel de natas, growing up in Germany then going to school in Spain. This is a fun one, spiked with some intense historical stuff!

    Rec.: 12/15/2023

  • Our guest today is former British diplomat and First World War scholar Dr. Tony Cowan. While in the Foreign Service, Tony held postings to Beijing, Hong Kong, Brussels, and The Hague. He was educated at Oxford, and following his retirement, he earned a PhD in military history from Kings College, London.

    Tony’s publications include ‘The Introduction of New German Defensive Tactics in 1916-1917’ in the British Journal for Military History and “A Picture of German Unity? Federal Contingents in the German Army, 1916-1917’, in Jonathan Krause, ed., The Greater War: Other Combatants and Other Fronts, 1914–1918 (Palgrave Macmillan). He is the editor of The Catastrophe of 8 August 1918, which is a translation of Thilo von Bose’s Die Katastrophe des 8 August 1918, which was part of the German semi-official Schlachten des Weltkrieges (Battles of the World War) series. Most recently, Tony published Holding Out: The German Army and Operational Command in 1917 with Cambridge University Press’ Military Histories Series.

    Tony has participated in the British Army’s staff rides for the First World War, and he is a member of the British Commission for Military History, Society of Military History, and Western Front Association.

    Join us for a very interesting and entertaining chat with Tony Cowan. We'll talk reading Thucydides in Greek, the Hong Kong hand-over, command and the German Army, Augustiner Beer, and other "terrible confessions."

    Rec.: 12/12/2023

  • Today’s guest is historian and closet economist Clifford J. Rogers. Cliff is Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Before arriving in West Point, he was a Fulbright fellow at the Institute for Historical Research in London and an Olin Fellow in Military and Strategic History at Yale. He was also a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Wales, Swansea. Cliff triple-majored in Economics, History, and Policy Studies for his BA at Rice University, and earned his MA and PhD in History from The Ohio State University.

    Cliff is the author of War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360 (Boydell and Brewer) and Soldiers’ Lives through History: The Middle Ages (Greenwood), among other works. He has twice won De Re Militari’s Verbruggen Prize, once for War Cruel and Sharp and again for Soldiers’ Lives, and also received that association’s Bachrach Medal. Cliff is the recipient of the Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize Medal and has been awarded the Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award on three occasions.

    In addition to his monographs, Cliff has edited and co-edited multiple volumes, including the Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, which received the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award. He has published articles in The Journal of Medieval History, War in History, English Historical Review, and the Journal of Military History, among many others. His article “The Military Revolutions of the Hundred Years War” was awarded the Society for Military History’s Moncado Prize. Cliff co-founded The Journal of Medieval Military History and serves as co-Senior Editor of the digital West Point History of Warfare. In 2016, he received the George C. Marshall Foundation Prize for the Use of Digital Technology in Teaching Military History for his work on that project.

    Join us for a deep chat about forks in the road, Dungeons and Dragons, Van Morrison, and New York BBQ. Cliff unwittingly delivers a master-class on military revolutions and revolutions in military affairs - you won’t be disappointed.

    Shoutout to Smoky Rock BBQ in Rhinebeck, New York!

    Rec.: 11/10/2023

  • Today's guest is Russian/Soviet historian and maroon-blooded Aggie Roger Reese! Roger is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Texas A&M University. He specializes in the social history of the Imperial Russian and Soviet militaries and has written seven books on the Russian armed forces. He received his BA in history from Texas A&M and moved to Austin to earn his MA and PhD from the University of Texas. Following his commissioning from Texas A&M, Roger served in the United States Army from 1981-1984.

    Roger's many books include Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army, 1925-1941 (Kansas), Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II (Kansas), and The Imperial Russian Army, in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917 (Kansas). The latter won the World War One Historical Association's Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize. His most recent book is Russia's Army: A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine (Oklahoma).

    Roger's articles have been published in leading journals that include the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, War & Society, and the Journal of Military History. In 2003, he was awarded The Society for Military History's Moncado Prize for the outstanding article in military history for "Red Army Professionalism and the Communist Party, 1918-1941." He sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, and Histories. Roger is an exceptional teacher and received Texas A&M's University Distinguished Achievement Award in the Area of Teaching in 2009.

    Join us for a very interesting chat with Roger about the Russian military through time, researching in post-Cold War Russian archives, being in the Aggie Corps of Cadets, Aggie football, Willie Nelson, Tolstoy, and the common theme it seems of this podcast - serendipity.

    Shoutout to Fargo's Pit BBQ in Bryan, Texas (though Roger claims his brisket is the best around)!

    Rec.: 11/03/2023

  • Today's guest is the highly intellectual and equally highly satirical Philipp Stelzel. Philipp is an Associate Professor of History and Graduate Director for History at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before finding his academic home at Duquesne, Philipp taught at Duke University and Boston College, and also served as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Munich. He earned his BA in History from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich, an MA in History from Columbia University, and a PhD in Modern European Transnational and Global History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

    Philipp is the author of History after Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise (Penn) and has published articles in History Compass and Central European History. He has worked with the American-German Institute and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. Philipp is also the author of the brilliant tongue-in-cheek cocktail commentary on academia titled The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics (Indiana). Philipp has received funding from the German Historical Institute, the Fulbright Foundation, and the American Historical Association, among others.

    Join us for a deep dive into German history, Shirley Horn, lederhosen, Birkenstocks, and, yes, cocktails.

    Shoutout to Q Shack in Durham, North Carolina!

    Rec.: 10/25/2023

  • Our guest to the generous and brilliant Andrew A. Wiest. Andy is a Distinguished Professor of History and Founding Director of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is also the current General Buford "Buff" Blount Professor of Military History from 2023-2025 at USM. He served as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy at the United States Air Force Air War College and a Visiting Senior Lecturer in the War Studies Department at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, England. Andy received his BS and MA degrees in History from Southern Mississippi and earned his Ph. from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

    Andy is the author of seventeen books (that's right - seventeen!), including two best-sellers: Boys of 67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam (Osprey) and Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN (NYU Press). The Boys of 67 was also released as Brothers in War, a documentary film by Lou Reda Productions for National Geographic Television, which received an Emmy nomination. Vietnam's Forgotten Army won the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award. Andy also authored Charlie Company's Journey Home: The Boys of '67 and the War They Left Behind; The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans (Osprey/Bloomsbury), and he has published books on the First and Second World Wars, edited or co-edited several volumes, and published more than a dozen articles and book chapters. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and many other news publications.

    Andy has twice received the University of Southern Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Award and was awarded the Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher of the Year Award in 2002. In 2021, he was inducted into the Hattiesburg Publish School District's Hall of Fame. He leads an annual WWII study abroad program to London and Normandy and has developed an award-winning Vietnam Study Abroad Program.

    Join us for a remarkable and enjoyable chat with Andy Wiest. We'll talk growing up in the South, working and traveling with Vietnam veterans, founding a major center for the study of war and society, Dirty Manhattans, Electric Light Orchestra, and the sad naps from being a lifelong Minnesota Vikings fan. This is why we do this podcast.

    Shoutout to Leatha's BBQ in Petal, Mississippi!

    Rec.: 10/13/2023

  • Today's guest is the in-demand Radical War guy, Matthew Ford! Matthew Ford is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor specializing in war and security at the Swedish Defence University (the Försvarshögskolan) in Stockholm. A former West Point fellow and visiting scholar at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, Matthew is an Honorary Historical Consultant for the Royal Armouries Museum. He was a Strategic Analyst for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at the UK Ministry of Defence and served as Deputy Head and Director of Teaching and Learning at the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Matthew received his BA in Philosophy at the University of Reading and an MA and PhD in War Studies from King's College, London.

    Matthew is the author of Weapon of Choice: Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation (Oxford) and, with Andrew Hoskins of the University of Glasgow, Radical War: Data Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford). His current book project is tentatively titled "War in the Age of the Smartphone" and is set to be published by Oxford in 2025. Matthew has published in many of the top journals in the field, including the Journal of International Security, International History Review, the Journal of Strategic Studies, and War in History. He is the founding editor of the British Journal for Military History.

    Join us for a fun but intense chat with Matthew Ford. We'll talk attending job fairs, the pros and cons of being a bureaucrat and an academic, warfare in the 21st century, moving to Sweden, the Rugby World Cup, Stanley Tucci, and The Smiths, among many other topics. Strap yourself in for this one!

    Rec.: 10/20/2023

  • Today's guest is the energetic and enthusiastic Jason Herbert. Jason is a Tribal Liaison with the United States Forest Service in Colorado. He is also the creator and host of Historians at the Movies, a podcast that features historians talking about movies ranging from Pretty Woman to Con Air. Jason is an experienced high-school teacher, having taught US History, World History, and economics at the Pine School and the Highlands Career Institute in Florida. He also served as an ethnographer for the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Jason received his PhD in History from the University of Minnesota, where he completed a dissertation titled "Beast of Many Names: Cattle, Conflict, and the Transformation of Indigenous Florida, 1519- 1858." He took his MA and BA in History from Wichita State University and an AA in General Studies from Tallahassee Community College.

    Jason has published articles in the Florida Historical Quarterly, Ohio Valley History, and Chronicles of Oklahoma. He has also published in the American Historian and Smithsonian magazine. His scholarship has been supported by Florida Atlantic University and the Huntington Library, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the American Historical Association, the Agricultural History Society, and the Newberry Renaissance Consortium. Jason excels in front of a classroom - he's won teaching awards at the University of Minnesota, Wichita State University, and the Highlands Career Institute. Additionally, he was nominated for the Gilder Lehrman National History Teacher of the Year Award.

    Join us for a fast and furious chat with Jason Herbert. We'll talk undergraduate woes, Kentucky and Indiana, Lyle Lovett, Black Sails, Whataburger, and a little Hemingway.

    Shoutout to Front Range BBQ in Colorado Springs!

    Rec.: 10/11/2023

  • Whether this is your first Military Historians are People, Too, or you are a long-time listener, you are in for an amazing story with today's guest, Robert K. Brigham. Bob is Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations and Faculty Director of the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Vassar College. Bob also taught at Southern Vermont College and the University of Kentucky. He earned his BA from SUNY College at Brockport, an MA from the University of Rhode Island, and his PhD from the University of Kentucky, directed by the late George Herring.

    Bob has authored or co-authored ten books, including Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam (PublicAffairs), Is Iraq Another Vietnam? (PublicAffairs), Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (PublicNLF'srs), and Guerilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Vietnam War (Cornell). His forthcomingAdoptee'sThis is a True War Story: An Adoptee's Bob'sr (University of Chicago Press). Bob's research has been funded by the Rockefeller, Mellon, Ford, and Smith Richardson foundations and the National Endowment for Humanities. He has held endowed lectureships and visiting professorships at Johns Hopkins University, Cambridge University (Clare College), Brown University, and University College Dublin.

    Bob is an accomplished teacher and has received teaching awards at the University of Kentucky, Southern Vermont College, and the Semester at Sea Program. Vassar College's Alumnae/i Association presented Bob with its Outstanding Faculty Award in 2019. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations recognized his dedication to the profession earlier this year when the organization awarded him the Peter L. Hahn Distinguished Service Award.

    Join us for a truly remarkable chat with Bob Brigham. We'll talk discovering birth parents, the serendipity of being interested in Vietnam, how so many of us had no idea how to become a history professor, teaching at sea, Beamish Stout, Bruce Springsteen, Hallberg-Rassy sailboats, Korean BBQ, and other essential matters.

    Shoutout to Korpot Korean Food & Drink in Poughkeepsie, New York!

    Rec.: 09/29/2023

  • Our guest today is Sarah Parry Myers, author of the new book Earning Their Wings: The WASPS of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition (UNC Press). Sarah is an Associate Professor of History at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty at Messiah after spending three years at St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, where she also served as the director of the Keirn Family World War II Museum. She received her BA in History Education at the University of Missouri-Rolla and an MA in History at Missouri State. Sarah completed her PhD at Texas Tech University.

    A specialist in gender and the military, Sarah is the author of “‘The Women Behind the Men Behind the Gun’: Gendered Identities and Militarization in the Second World War” in The Routledge Handbook of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military, ed. Kara Dixon Vuic (Routledge) and “Battling Contested Air Spaces: The American Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II,” in Gender and the Second World War: The Lessons of War, edited by Corinna Peniston-Bird and Emma Vickers (Palgrave). Her first book, Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition was published in Sept. 2023 with UNC Press.

    In 2020, Sarah was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogues on the Experience of War Grant for her project “We are Veterans Too: Women’s Experiences in the U.S. Military.” She is active in the Society for Military History, the American Historical Association, and The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, among other professional associations.

    Join us for a delightful chat with the delightful Sarah Myers. We'll talk WASPs, financial exigency in higher ed, growing up in Missouri, being a Swiftie, not taking a class from Friend of the Pod John McManus, and yes, washing feet!

    Shoutout to Borough BBQ in Gettysburg!

    Rec.: 09/15/2023

  • Today's guest is the delightful Joy Porter. Joy is Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History at the University of Hull. She is a principal investigator of the Treatied Spaces Research Group and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow. Joy is also the principal investigator for the Arts and Humanities Research Council's project "Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Iroquois and the British Crown." Joy was a Fulbright Scholar at Dartmouth College and has also held visiting professorships at Paris Diderot University and The Clinton Institute, Dublin. She started her career as a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, and she also spent eight years as a Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean at Swansea University. Joy was educated at the University of Nottingham, where she received her MA and PhD.

    Joy has more than 38 publications to her credit, including her fascinating recent monograph Trauma, Primitivism, and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (Bloomsbury). Her other monographs include Native American Environmentalism (Nebraska), Native American Indian Freemasonry: Associationalism & Performance in America, (Nebraska) and To Be Indian: The Life of Seneca-Iroquois Arthur Caswell Parker (Oklahoma), which won a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. Joy also won the 2006 Writer of the Year Award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers for the Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Her forthcoming book is titled Canada's Green Challenge (McGill-Queen's). Joy is a lead editor of the Cambridge University Press book series, Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a National Teaching Fellow.

    Join us for a fun, quirky, and very interesting chat with Joy Porter. We'll talk growing up in Derry during The Troubles, interdisciplinary approaches to military history, the compulsion to write, John Prine, soldier trauma in the First World War, and fish tacos, among other topics!

    Shoutout to Deckhand Dave's in Juneau, Alaska!

    Rec.: 09/08/2023

  • Our guest today is the introspective yet outgoing Samuel Fury Childs Daly. Sam is an Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, History, and International Comparative Studies at Duke University. From 2016-17, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers University. Sam earned his BA in African Studies and History at Columbia University, an MA in Historical Research Methods from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and an M Phil in African Studies from King’s College, University of Cambridge. He returned to the US to complete his PhD in History at Columbia University.

    Sam is the author of A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge). The book has won several awards, including the 2020 Law and Society Association’s J. Willard Hurst Book Prize for the best book in legal history in any region or time period and the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom’s Fage & Oliver Prize for the best book on Africa published in 2020 or 2021. Sam’s articles have appeared in Law & History Review, Past & Present, Journal of African History, African Studies Review, and many others. His research has been funded by, among others, the Mellon Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, and the American Historical Association.

    Sam’s current book projects include “Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire,” which is under contract with Duke University Press, and “The Good Soldier: A History of Military Desertion.”

    Join us for a very interesting chat with Sam Daly. We’ll talk doing research in Nigeria, growing up in a family of extroverted performers, the intersections of war, legal studies, and military history, Bjork (a first for The Pod!), and a host of other topics!

    Shoutout to the Q Shack in Durham, NC!

    Rec.: 09/01/2023

  • Our guest today is Netherlander ⁠Thijs Brocades Zaalberg⁠! Thijs is a University Lecturer at the Universiteit Leiden and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Military Sciences at the Netherlands Defense Academy in Breda. Before moving to Leiden, Thijs worked at the Netherlands Insitute of Military History in The Hague. He is currently the coordinator for the project Comparing Extreme Violence in the Wars of Decolonization, 1945-1962, at the Netherlands Insitute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Thijs earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Groningen, spent a year at Trinity College, Dublin, and then took his PhD at the University of Amsterdam. Thijs also spent ten years as an officer in the Reserve of the Royal Netherlands Army.

    Thijs is a specialist in colonial warfare, counterinsurgency, and peace operations. He is the editor, with Bart Luttikhuis, of Empire's Violent End: Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945-1962 (Cornell), and is author of Soldiers and Civil Power: Supporting or Substituting Civil Authorities in Modern Peace Operations (Amsterdam), coauthor with Arthur ten Cate of A Gentle Occupation Dutch Military Operations in Iraq, 2003-2005 (Leiden), and coauthor with Frances Gouda of American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia: US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism (Amsterdam). He has also published over a dozen essays and articles in English and Dutch journals.

    Join us for a fascinating chat with Thijs Zaalberg. We'll talk about his parents and grandparents' experience in the Second World War, his rebellious turn toward history as a career path, the Dutch military experience, Beck, The Bear, being a war diarist in Afghanistan, Grolsch, and some BBQ basics. We're on a roll with Season 4!

    Rec.: 08/09/2023