Niels Eichhorn
@nielseichhorn.bsky.social
Civil War Historian, Editor H-CivWar, posting about history, my two cute little boys, and my two puppies, living in Germany working as an IB GloPo and History teacher, Website: nielseichhorn.com All views are my own.
For Part 2 of my conversation with @americanstudier.bsky.social we are joined by my co-host @ahouckinfrance.bsky.social _Of Thee I Sing_ Enjoy as we explore issues of nationalism and patriotism @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/131S... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
December 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
For Part 2 of my conversation with @americanstudier.bsky.social we are joined by my co-host @ahouckinfrance.bsky.social _Of Thee I Sing_ Enjoy as we explore issues of nationalism and patriotism @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/131S... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Family is a crucial part of us, but how does it help us understand history? @ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and I discuss with Amy Murrell Taylor her book _The Divided Family in Civil War America_ @uncpress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6EI6... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
December 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Family is a crucial part of us, but how does it help us understand history? @ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and I discuss with Amy Murrell Taylor her book _The Divided Family in Civil War America_ @uncpress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6EI6... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
How do you tell the story of a person who told ever-changing stories of themselves? I chat with Craig Friend about his new book _Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas_ @uncpress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6pR3... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
December 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
How do you tell the story of a person who told ever-changing stories of themselves? I chat with Craig Friend about his new book _Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas_ @uncpress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6pR3... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
The Grand Army of the Republic supported reforms and discussed local issues, according Jonathan D. Neu and his book _Our Onward March: The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era_ @fordhampress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... open.spotify.com/episode/4llb...
October 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Grand Army of the Republic supported reforms and discussed local issues, according Jonathan D. Neu and his book _Our Onward March: The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era_ @fordhampress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... open.spotify.com/episode/4llb...
The movie Glory has introduced millions to the 54th MA, but few know John W. M. Appleton. Today, I chat with James Jewell and Eugene Van Sickle about Appleton and their book _Waging War for Freedom_ @utpress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2fNo... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
September 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The movie Glory has introduced millions to the 54th MA, but few know John W. M. Appleton. Today, I chat with James Jewell and Eugene Van Sickle about Appleton and their book _Waging War for Freedom_ @utpress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2fNo... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Do scholars have a crystal ball? It is a question you almost want to ask @americanstudier.bsky.social when you read his book _Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism_ @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3LYd... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
September 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Do scholars have a crystal ball? It is a question you almost want to ask @americanstudier.bsky.social when you read his book _Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism_ @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3LYd... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Education is crucial. Reconstruction witnessed the opening of schools for many formerly enslaved. I chat w/ AnneMarie Brosnan about her book _A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina_ @fordhampress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0emN... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
August 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Education is crucial. Reconstruction witnessed the opening of schools for many formerly enslaved. I chat w/ AnneMarie Brosnan about her book _A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina_ @fordhampress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0emN... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
We look at medical history with Thomas Helling as we discuss his new book _Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South_ @upmississippi.bsky.social Southerners thought of their region as different, which impacted medicine. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... open.spotify.com/episode/1ozM...
August 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We look at medical history with Thomas Helling as we discuss his new book _Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South_ @upmississippi.bsky.social Southerners thought of their region as different, which impacted medicine. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... open.spotify.com/episode/1ozM...
@ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and I are back chatting with Scott Hancock about #gettysburg and Gettysburg NMP about the recent Gettysburg reenactment and other issues with commemoration and memory at the Gettysburg battlefield. open.spotify.com/episode/51k7... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
August 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
@ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and I are back chatting with Scott Hancock about #gettysburg and Gettysburg NMP about the recent Gettysburg reenactment and other issues with commemoration and memory at the Gettysburg battlefield. open.spotify.com/episode/51k7... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
20 Years of Republican Party during the Civil War scholarship has changed. @ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and I chat with Michael S. Green about _Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and his Party during the Civil War_ Fordham Press open.spotify.com/episode/6BdA... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
July 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
20 Years of Republican Party during the Civil War scholarship has changed. @ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and I chat with Michael S. Green about _Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and his Party during the Civil War_ Fordham Press open.spotify.com/episode/6BdA... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
I have enjoyed Louis A. Perez's work since I read _War of 1898_. I had a chance to chat with Lou about one of his new books _Colonial Reckoning_ @dukepress.bsky.social that looks at the Ten Years War and Independence War in Cuba.
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July 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I have enjoyed Louis A. Perez's work since I read _War of 1898_. I had a chance to chat with Lou about one of his new books _Colonial Reckoning_ @dukepress.bsky.social that looks at the Ten Years War and Independence War in Cuba.
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Military Occupation is a major topic in Civil War scholarship, especially in Louisiana with the likes of Benjamin Butler. J. Matthew Ward and I chat about _Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War_ @lsupress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7Bw3... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
July 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Military Occupation is a major topic in Civil War scholarship, especially in Louisiana with the likes of Benjamin Butler. J. Matthew Ward and I chat about _Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War_ @lsupress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7Bw3... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
Today, Andrew R. Parnell and I dive into the history of Walter Hines Page, one time editor-in-chief of @theatlantic.com , as well as US Ambassador in London during WWI. We discuss Parnell's _The Forgotten Man_ @ugapress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5L3Y... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
June 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today, Andrew R. Parnell and I dive into the history of Walter Hines Page, one time editor-in-chief of @theatlantic.com , as well as US Ambassador in London during WWI. We discuss Parnell's _The Forgotten Man_ @ugapress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5L3Y... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
#Mobile is a historic port city that was the cotton export center of Alabama, a seasonal commercial metropolis. Mike Bunn and I chat about Antebellum Mobile and his recent book _This Southern Metropolis_ @ugapress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2dDH... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
June 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#Mobile is a historic port city that was the cotton export center of Alabama, a seasonal commercial metropolis. Mike Bunn and I chat about Antebellum Mobile and his recent book _This Southern Metropolis_ @ugapress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2dDH... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
If you have access to C-Span 3, on Sunday May 25 at 2pm, you can watch the talk Duncan Campbell and I did at Shenandoah University about our book The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism. www.c-span.org/schedule/?ch... Or you can watch a recording here archive.org/details/CSPA...
May 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
If you have access to C-Span 3, on Sunday May 25 at 2pm, you can watch the talk Duncan Campbell and I did at Shenandoah University about our book The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism. www.c-span.org/schedule/?ch... Or you can watch a recording here archive.org/details/CSPA...
Georgia's Sea Island, Spanish Florida, and the Muscogee Homeland offered runaway slaves different avenues to freedom. I chat with Paul Pressly about his provocative book _A Southern Underground Railroad_ @ugapress.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/3lqM... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
May 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Georgia's Sea Island, Spanish Florida, and the Muscogee Homeland offered runaway slaves different avenues to freedom. I chat with Paul Pressly about his provocative book _A Southern Underground Railroad_ @ugapress.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/3lqM... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
The 19C was an era where conman thrived and could make fortunes but also make a career out of lying. I chat with Frank Garmon about his book _A Wonderful Career in Crime_ from @lsupress.bsky.social where he introduces Charles Cowlam open.spotify.com/episode/00Je... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
May 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The 19C was an era where conman thrived and could make fortunes but also make a career out of lying. I chat with Frank Garmon about his book _A Wonderful Career in Crime_ from @lsupress.bsky.social where he introduces Charles Cowlam open.spotify.com/episode/00Je... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
In 2015, I took students on a summer trip. In their reflections, one of my students, conservative and only desiring to get a history degree to be a school coach, wrote an "interesting" paper. See two passages below. As the #nationalparkservice faces major cuts, their prediction rings sadly true.
May 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
In 2015, I took students on a summer trip. In their reflections, one of my students, conservative and only desiring to get a history degree to be a school coach, wrote an "interesting" paper. See two passages below. As the #nationalparkservice faces major cuts, their prediction rings sadly true.
If you enjoy horse racing or #KentuckyDerby, you will enjoy my conversation with Natalie Zacek about her new book _Thoroughbred Nation: Making America at the Racetrack, 1791-1900_ with @lsupress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... open.spotify.com/episode/3O8u...
April 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If you enjoy horse racing or #KentuckyDerby, you will enjoy my conversation with Natalie Zacek about her new book _Thoroughbred Nation: Making America at the Racetrack, 1791-1900_ with @lsupress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... open.spotify.com/episode/3O8u...
The Zouave was a fancifully dressed, fiercely independent soldier with many imitators. I chat with Carol Harrison & Tom Brown about their book _Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance_ @lsupress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3AZi... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/z...
April 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Zouave was a fancifully dressed, fiercely independent soldier with many imitators. I chat with Carol Harrison & Tom Brown about their book _Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance_ @lsupress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3AZi... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/z...
#gettysburg and Gettysburg NMP are important sites in the nation's memory landscape. Today, @andrewhouck.bsky.social and I chat with Scott Hancock about Gettysburg especially inclusive remembering and Lost Cause celebration open.spotify.com/episode/0bpi... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
March 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
#gettysburg and Gettysburg NMP are important sites in the nation's memory landscape. Today, @andrewhouck.bsky.social and I chat with Scott Hancock about Gettysburg especially inclusive remembering and Lost Cause celebration open.spotify.com/episode/0bpi... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
In another book anniversary podcast episode, @ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and I chat with Nicole Etcheson about her book _Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era_ open.spotify.com/episode/0DPD... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
March 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In another book anniversary podcast episode, @ahouckinfrance.bsky.social and I chat with Nicole Etcheson about her book _Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era_ open.spotify.com/episode/0DPD... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Can we know what Civil War uniforms looked like? Today we explore that and other material culture questions with @shaesmithcox.bsky.social as we talk about her book _The Fabric of Civil War Society_ @lsupress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/05UI... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
February 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Can we know what Civil War uniforms looked like? Today we explore that and other material culture questions with @shaesmithcox.bsky.social as we talk about her book _The Fabric of Civil War Society_ @lsupress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/05UI... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
How did the idea of Great Reconstruction expand into foreign policy? Today, I chat with @semmesryan.bsky.social about his new book _Exporting Reconstruction: Ulysses S. Grant and a New Empire of Liberty_ Check out the podcast below open.spotify.com/episode/2Vy2... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
February 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
How did the idea of Great Reconstruction expand into foreign policy? Today, I chat with @semmesryan.bsky.social about his new book _Exporting Reconstruction: Ulysses S. Grant and a New Empire of Liberty_ Check out the podcast below open.spotify.com/episode/2Vy2... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
For Ep 25, I chat with Sandra Bonura about her new book _The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels_ @univnebpress.bsky.social Claus Spreckels, a German immigrant, accomplished the American dream as a sugarbeet baron open.spotify.com/episode/5pZZ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
January 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
For Ep 25, I chat with Sandra Bonura about her new book _The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels_ @univnebpress.bsky.social Claus Spreckels, a German immigrant, accomplished the American dream as a sugarbeet baron open.spotify.com/episode/5pZZ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...