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PODCAST

Military Historians are People, Too!

Brian Feltman and Bill Allison

Join Georgia Southern University military history professors Brian Feltman and Bill Allison as they chat with fellow military historians, public historians, scholars of war and society, and other exciting people about military history, career paths, BBQ, and life in general on Military Historians are People, Too! Recently named among the Top Military History Podcasts by Feedspot.com! Thanks for listening!

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01:00:26

S6E18 Jack & Jon of Armchair Commanders Podcast

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2026/04/07

Our guests today are Jack Mortenson and Jon Aperans, the creators and hosts of Armchair Commanders, a podcast dedicated to war movies! They met at the University of South Dakota (Jon even had a history class with Friend-of-the-Pod Kurt Hackemer!), staying up too late watching movies and occasionally showing up to class not fully prepared - hey, we've all been there. Since starting Armchair Commanders with the animated film Picadon, they've released over 125 episodes discussing films familiar

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01:08:05

S6E17 Nathan K. Finneyy - US Army Forces Command

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2026/03/31

Our guest today is Col. Nathan K. Finney of US Forces Command. An armor (armour, if you are in the UK) officer-turned-strategist, Nate commissioned through Officer Candidate School after earning his BA from the University of Arizona. Following tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he began doctoral studies at the University of Kansas while at Ft. Leavenworth, then completed his PhD at Duke University as a Goodpaster Fellow. His first book was just released by Cornell University Press - Orchestrating Power:

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01:10:27

S6E16 Pierre Asselin - San Diego State University

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2026/03/24

Today's guest is hockey-playing Québécois and Vietnam historian, Pierre Asselin! He's come a long way from not wanting to go to college to now the Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations and interim Director of the Center for War and Society at San Diego State University. Born and raised in Quebec City, Pierre had an inspirational professor at Glendon College who encouraged him to learn Vietnamese through a program that took Pierre to Hawaii, where, and he never imagined it,

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01:11:47

S6E15 Reena Goldthree - Princeton University

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2026/03/17

Today's guest is the well-travelled Reena Goldthree of Princeton University, where she is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and affiliated with Princeton's Gender and Sexuality Studies and Latin American Studies programs. A native of St. Louis, Reena grew up around history and languages. With a BA from Columbia and a PhD from Duke, Reena taught at Dartmouth before landing at Princeton. She specializes in colonial soldier experiences, especially that of the West Indies

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01:09:07

S6E14 Frank Blazich - Smithsonian National Museum of...

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2026/03/03

Today's guest is the energetic Military History Curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Dr. Frank Blazich! An Air Force veteran and long-time historian for the Civil Air Patrol, Frank has been in the public history world since earning his PhD at The Ohio State University. A native of North Carolina, Frank earned degrees at both UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State (which must make for interesting conversation during THAT game!). He has published too many articles to

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01:01:05

S6E13 Ian Sanders - Cold War Conversations Podcast

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2026/02/17

Today's guest is a fellow podcaster - Ian Sanders, who is the creator and host of the popular Cold War Conversations Podcast. A London native now living in Manchester, Ian divides time between the Manchester Museum, podcast projects for the Royal Army Museum and the Imperial War Museum, and his Cold War Conversations Podcast. With a lifelong interest in military history and the Cold War, Ian has turned what began as a small hobby into a New York Times-recommended podcast with over 6 million

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01:01:18

S6E12 John Kinder - Oklahoma State University

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2026/02/10

Our guest today is Oklahoma State University Professor of History John M. Kinder. John is the Director of the American Studies Program at OK State and has published widely on veterans and disabilities, and, more recently, on zoos in wartime. His books include Paying With Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran (University of Chicago Press), Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History (University of Massachusetts Press - co-edited with Friend-of-the-Pod

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00:55:29

S6E11 Calum Robertson - National Museums Scotland

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2026/02/03

We've got another good one for you - Today's guest is National Museums Scotland's military curator, Calum Robertson. Calum has one of the best jobs in the military history world there in Edinburgh. Born and raised near storied St. Andrews, Calum couldn't help but get interested in history at a young age. Calum studied history and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, earned his PhD in Archaeological Heritage and Museums at Cambridge, and then fell into a full-time position at

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01:06:53

S6E10 Mark Johnson - University of Tennessee at...

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2026/01/20

Our guest today is a historian of Civil War memory and Southern foodways, notably for our purposes BBQ and, wait for it, BACON! Mark A. Johnson is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. A native of Milwaukee but from everywhere (his father's business moved the family all over the country), Mark earned his BA from Purdue University, an MA from the University of Maryland, and his PhD from the University of Alabama, where, you guessed it, he partook of

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00:53:30

S6E09 Guy Nasuti - US Naval History and Heritage Command

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2026/01/13

Our guest today is Guy Nasuti, whose road to his current position with the US Naval History and Heritage Command has been a long and winding one. Now a historian at the Navy Yard, Guy's naval career included serving as a photographer's mate on the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau during Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. But it all began in Livonia, Michigan, growing up in a family steeped in military service. Following his time in the Navy, Guy worked for the magazine group that

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01:03:20

S6E08 Derek Mallett - Independent Scholar

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2025/12/02

Our guest today is one of the nicest guys in the military history community (which is filled with wonderful people!) - Derek Mallett. Late of the US Army Command and General Staff College school at Ft. Belvoir, Derek taught in professional military education for several years after a stint with the Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Hawaii and teaching everything from high school (albeit very briefly!) to community college, as well as a summer at Texas A&M's engineering school branch in

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01:01:29

S6E07 Le'Trice Donaldson - Auburn University

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2025/11/11

Another good one, recorded on Halloween even! Today's guest is the upbeat and energetic Le'Trice Donaldson of Auburn University. Le'Trice is a scholar of the Black soldier experience and founder of the Society for Black Military Studies. With a BA and MA from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a PhD from the University of Memphis, Le'Trice did the year-to-year sojourn of many new academics before landing at Auburn University. Her first book, Duty Beyond the Battlefield:

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00:59:05

S6E06 Mark Grotelueschen - US Air Force Academy

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2025/11/04

Today's guest is Chicago-native cum St. Louis Cardinals fan Mark Grotelueschen. Mark is Professor of Military and Strategic Studies at the US Air Force Academy, where he's taught for several years both in uniform and now as a civilian in the Department of Military and Strategic Studies. A USAFA graduate and now retired Air Force officer with 27 years of service, Mark earned his MA from the University of Calgary and his PhD from Texas A&M (yep, another one of those!). Despite his Air

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01:03:19

S6E05 Pat Carlin - Naval Institute Press

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2025/10/28

Today's guest is the self-professed optimist and Senior Acquisitions Editor at the Naval Institute Press, Pat Carlin. Pat has been a fixture at the Society for Military History annual conference book exhibit for years, first with ABC-CLIO and now with the Naval Institute. Pat has a great story - his father was in the merchant marine and his mother escaped North Korea. Born and raised in New York City, Pat started as a writer, even writing movie screenplays and television scripts, including for

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01:07:17

S6E04 John Beeler - University of Alabama

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2025/10/21

Our guest today is naval historian John Beeler of the University of Alabama. John has been at Bama since 1993 and seen it all, we'd dare to say. John has written extensively on British naval policy during the Victorian era, while at the same time amassing a literal garage full of vinyl - his record collection numbers in the thousands! He is also a hyper-keen BBQ aficionado/snob, claiming that the only authentic BBQ is somewhere in North Carolina - everything else is "smoked meat."

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00:52:02

S6E03 Caroline Janney - Nau Center for Civil War...

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2025/10/14

Today's guest is the director of the University of Virginia's Nau Center for Civil War History - Caroline E. Janney. Recognized for excellence in teaching, Caroline is also an award-winning scholar. Her many publications include Burying the Dead But Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause, Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, and Ends of War: The Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox, all from UNC Press, where she is also coeditor

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01:20:57

S6E02 Paul Springer - USAF Air Command & Staff College

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2025/09/23

Today's guest is the USAF Air Command and Staff College's Paul "PJ" Springer. PJ has a great story - from the farm fields of Iowa to Aggieland to Maxwell AFB, Paul had dreams of being a physicist, but the end of the Cold War and a couple of good experiences in history courses at Texas A&M put him on the righteous path. Paul has written widely on Civil War POWs, military technology, among many other subjects. Versatile in his research interests and committed to the professional

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01:11:58

S6E01 Jack Bowsher - Kathrine Warington School, UK

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2025/09/16

We're back! Our summer hiatus is over, and it's good to get back to recording. And Season 6, no less! Our opening episode is a fun chat with Jack Bowsher, a historian of the Burma Campaign in the Second World War. Jack is Head of History at the Katherine Warington School in Hertfordshire, UK. Jack's books include Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma, and Thunder Run Meiktila 1945: The Greatest Combined Arms Manoeuvre Battle of World War II . He is the co-host (with Robert Lyman) of

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01:11:02

S5E25 Seb Cox - RAF Air Historical Branch (ret.)

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2025/04/29

We wrap up Season 5 with the gentleman historian Sebastian Cox. Seb just retired from we won't say how many years as Head of the Royal Air Force's Air Historical Branch. Long active in the UK, European, and American official history communities as well as rarely missing a Society for Military History conference over the past 30+ years, Seb came to airpower history by happenstance after doing a thesis on the Vietnam War at King's College, London. A random job application to the RAF Museum

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01:09:17

S5E24 Amanda Nagel - US Army Command and General...

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2025/04/22

We return to the CGSC well with an in-person, in-the-studio chat with Amanda Nagel, the pride of Strasburg, North Dakota, and currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Ft.Leavenworth, Kansas. Amanda was in Statesboro to deliver the keynote address for the opening of Brian's fantastic exhibit More Than A Name in the Georgia Southern University Library, which documents the service of African American soldiers from Bulloch

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