Military Historians are People, Too!

Join us for a chat with Kyle Longley, Professor of History and Director of the War & Society MA Program in the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Department of History at Chapman University. Kyle began as a historian of American foreign relations and diplomatic history but has gravitated toward war and society studies both in teaching and research. A native of Texas, Kyle earned his bachelor's degree in history at Angelo State University, then an MA in history from Texas

Today's guest is Great War scholar Jonathan Boff. Jonathan is a Reader in History and War Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches courses on conflict from Homer to Helmand. He specializes in the First World War. He is currently an AHRC Leadership Fellow, researching a book on Money in Wartime which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2024. His last monograph, Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front, 1914-18 was published by Oxford

Jim Willbanks is one of the most interesting military historians you’ll come across. Born in Texas and a graduate of “that school” in College Station, Jim was commissioned as a young lieutenant through ROTC at Texas A&M University. He not long after found himself as an advisor with an ARVN regiment in South Vietnam during the 1972 Easter Offensive, during which he was wounded and decorated for heroism under fire. He spent twenty-three years in the Army, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. His

Brian and Bill chat with Lorien Foote, one of the most important historians of the American Civil War experience. Lorien is the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor in History at Texas A&M University, moving to College Station in 2013 after several years in the History Department at the University of Central Arkansas. She is the author of several books, including The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners of War (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), which was a Choice Outstanding

Join Brian and Bill as they chat with Rob Citino, the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Dr. Citino earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University and is an award-winning scholar of German military history and World War II, who has published numerous books, including The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943, Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942, and The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich, as well

Join Brian and Bill as they chat with Heather Marie Stur, one of the most cutting-edge Vietnam War and war and society studies historians in the United States. Dr. Stur earned a Ph.D. in History at the University of Wisconsin after earning a B.A. and M.A. in History at Marquette University. She is the Moorman Distinguished Alumni Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she is also the Director of Graduate Studies in History and the