Featured Videos
Discussion about Richmond’s Monument Avenue (July 2020)
Short overview of the history of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (2016)
Confederate Monuments and the Battle Flag
- Panel Discussion on Monuments and Memory: National Council for History Education, (August 6, 2020).
- Panel Discussion on Monuments and Civic Spaces: George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at Shepherd University (July 31, 2020).
- Moderator: Ford’s Theatre interview Mitch Landrieu and Eugene Robinson, (July 30, 2020).
- Interview: NPR’s Morning Edition on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, (July 23, 2020).
- Webinar: Teaching the History and Controversy Surrounding Confederate Monuments, National Council for History Education, (July 22, 2020).
- Interview: Muckrake Podcast about Confederate monuments, (July 7, 2020).
- Conversation with students and teachers at La Jolla High School in San Diego about the Confederate monument controversy, (June 25, 2020).
- Interview: Black News Channel on the Confederate Battle Flag, (June 19, 2020)
- Conversation with Dr. Hilary Green about the Confederate monument controversy, Ford’s Theatre, (June 18, 2020).
- NPR’s “To the Point”: Interview about the history and memory of the Confederate flag (June 19, 2015)]
Black Confederate Myth
- Interview: National Museum of Civil War Medicine on the battle of the Crater and the Black Confederate Myth, (July 29, 2020).
- Virginia Festival of the Book: Interview about Searching for Black Confederates, (July 9, 2020).
- Conversation with Dr. Peter Carmichael and John Heckman about Black Confederates and monuments, (June 8, 2020).
- Interview: Professor Buzzfeed Podcast about black Confederates, (April 28, 2020).
- 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).
- History Camp Boston: Lecture about “Searching For Black Confederates,” (March 19, 2019).
- Civil War Monitor: Interview with Katie Brackett Fialka on the myth of the black Confederate soldier (March, 11, 2016)
- Voice of Russia Radio: Interview (w/Myra Chandler Sampson) on the myth of black Confederate soldiers and Silas Chandler (January 16, 2012)
- The Takeaway Show: Interview on the myth of black Confederate soldiers (April 13, 2011)
- Why We Argue Podcast: Interview about black Confederates, public history, and fake history (March 1, 2018)
- Civil War Talk Radio: Interview about the battle of the Crater (June 9, 2006
History Education
- Virginia Museum of History & Culture: Movie Mythbusting–GLORY (February 16, 2021).
- Chronicle 5: Interview about the MetFern Cemetery and historical markers (January 9, 2019).
- National Humanities Center Webinar: “Confederate Monuments and Contested Spaces in the United States,” with W. Fitzhugh Brundage (April 3, 2018).
- Georgia Historical Society: interview about public history and history education (January 11, 2018).
- National Humanities Center Webinar: “#fakenews: Teaching Historical Understanding in the Digital Age” (May 3, 2017)
Battle of the Crater and Civil War Memory
- 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)
- Huffduffer: Interview (German Radio) on the battle of the Crater (May 28, 2016)
- Blogginheads.tv: Interview about the Civil War sesquicentennial (April 16, 2015)
- American History Untucked Podcast: Interview about blogging, teaching and the Crater (January 20, 2015).
- 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 Monitor: Interview about the Civil War 150 issue of Common-place (with Megan Kate Nelson).
- Civil War Trust: Video about Civil War Memory
- Bloggingheads.tv: Interview about the memory of the battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War.
- C-SPAN: Panel discussion about the War in 1863, Civil War Institute (2014)
- 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)
- 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)
- Amerikan Rambler Podcast: Interview about blogging, the Crater, black Confederates, and doing history in the age of Trump (June 18, 2018).
Miscellaneous
- Studio 360: Interview about Newt Gingrich’s historical novel on the battle of the Crater (December 9, 2011)
- The Washington Post: Interview about the Sons of Confederate Veterans (June 9, 2019).
- BackStory With the American History Guys with Ed Ayers, Brian Brian Balogh, and Peter Onuf (February 12, 2015)