Media: Interviews and Presentations

2023

  • Podcast: Black Confederate Myth, 2 Complicated 4 History (November 28, 2023).
  • Presentation: “Civil War Monuments and Race in America,” Pejepscot Historical Society, Brunswick, Maine (September 9, 2023).
  • Interview: James Longstreet and “Confederate Cancel Culture,” Emerging Civil War (November 17, 2023).
  • Presentation: “Before Glory: Robert Gould Shaw and the Second Massachusetts,” Ann Arbor Civil War Round Table (March 13, 2023).
  • Interview: Critical Race Theory and History Education, Emerging Civil War (February 28, 2023).

2022

  • Interview: Origins of the Civil War and Debunking Lost Cause Myths (2022).
  • Movie Discussion: Glory, Massachusetts Historical Society (January 13, 2022).

2021

2020

2019

  • Interview: CSPAN about black Confederates and monuments in Chapel Hill, NC (October 28, 2019).
  • Virginia Museum of History & Culture: Lecture on black Confederates, (October 1, 2019).
  • National Archives: Lecture on black Confederates, (September 24, 2019).
  • CSPAN: Lecture at Massachusetts Historical Society on black Confederates, (September 18, 2019).
  • H-Net: Interview about black Confederates, Atlanta History Center, (September 9, 2019).
  • The Washington Post: Interview about the Sons of Confederate Veterans (June 9, 2019).
  • History Camp Boston: Lecture about “Searching For Black Confederates,” (March 19, 2019)
  • Chronicle 5: Interview about the MetFern Cemetery and historical markers (January 9, 2019).

2018

2017

  • Vox: interview about the UDC and Civil War memory (October 25, 2017).
  • Civil War Trust: Interview about the battle of the Crater (August 3, 2017).
  • National Humanities Center Webinar: “#fakenews: Teaching Historical Understanding in the Digital Age” (May 3, 2017)

2016

  • Battlefield Trust: History of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (November 9, 2016).
  • Huffduffer: Interview (German Radio) on the battle of the Crater (May 28, 2016).
  • The Takeaway Show: Interview on the myth of black Confederate soldiers (April 13, 2011).
  • Civil War Monitor: Interview with Katie Brackett Fialka on the myth of the black Confederate soldier (March, 11, 2016)

2015

2014

  • C-SPAN: Panel discussion about the War in 1863, Civil War Institute (2014).
  • C-SPAN: 150th anniversary talk on the battle of the Crater in Petersburg, VA (August 1, 2014).
  • Gettysburg National Battlefield Park: Lecture on the Battle of the Crater (June 22, 2014).
  • Civil War Trust: Video about Civil War Memory (2014).

2013

  • C-SPAN: Moderator of panel on United States Colored Troops, Civil War Institute (April 20, 2013).
  • Virginia Festival of the Book: Panel discussion about the battle of the Crater, (March 22, 2013).

2012

  • C-SPAN: Panelist on Civil War blogging, Civil War Institute (October 6, 2012).
  • The Civil War Monitor: Interview about the battle of the Crater and blogging (October 3, 2012).
  • Civil War Talk Radio: Interview about the battle of the Crater (September 28, 2012)
  • C-SPAN: Panelist on emancipation, Civil War Institute (September 22, 2012).
  • NPR’s “Tell Me More” with Michel Martin on the challenges of remembering 9-11 (September 11, 2012).
  • OAH (Civil War 150 podcast): Interview about teaching film, blogging, and the battle of the Crater (June 13, 2012).
  • Bloggingheads.tv: Interview about the memory of the battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War.
  • Voice of Russia Radio: Interview (w/Myra Chandler Sampson) on the myth of black Confederate soldiers and Silas Chandler (January 16, 2012).

2011

  • Studio 360: Interview about Newt Gingrich’s historical novel on the battle of the Crater (December 9, 2011).