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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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01:01:00

S3E14 Andrew Huebner - University of Alabama

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/05/02

Our guest today is Andrew J. Huebner, who clearly didn't think through the idea of recording live in the Odysea Waterfront Lounge at the Hilton Bayfront in San Diego, in the middle of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History! Thankfully, most military historians avoid bars, pubs, etc. (NOT!). But we had a great chat and the sound turned out ok, so thanks for your patience with the sound quality on this one! Andrew is Professor of History at the University of Alabama. He earned his

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01:14:59

S3E13 Kate Clarke Lemay - National Portrait Gallery

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/04/25

Our guest today is the artsy, funny, and brilliant Kate Clarke Lemay. Kate is a historian at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. She was the lead historian for the signature exhibitions America’s Presidents and Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence. and is currently curating a major exhibition titled 1898: American Imperial Visions and Revisions, which will open on April 28, 2023! Kate also serves as director of PORTAL, the National Portrait Gallery's Scholarly Center. She was

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01:13:55

S3E12 David Kieran - Columbus State University

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/04/18

Our guest today is the guitar-playing, hiking, marathon-running, American Studies guy-turned-historian David Kieran! Dave is an Associate Professor and the Colonel Richard R. Hallock Distinguished Chair in Military History at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Before coming to Columbus State, he was associate professor and chair of the history department at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA, where he also served as coordinator for the American Studies program. Dave

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00:58:37

S3E11 Lesley Gordon - University of Alabama

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/04/11

Our guest today is Civil War scholar Lesley Gordon. Lesley is the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama. Prior to moving to Tuscaloosa, she was a professor of history at the University of Akron, and she started her academic career at Murray State University. Lesley received her BA from the College of William and Mary, and her M.A. and PhD from the University of Georgia. Lesley’s first book General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (UNC Press) was a History

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00:57:23

S3E10 Martin Thomas - University of Exeter

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/04/04

Today's guest is Martin Thomas. Martin is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflictat the University of Exeter in the UK. He was also the first director of Exeter'sCentre for the Study of War, State, and Society. Before joining the faculty at Exeter, Martin taught at the University of the West of England in Bristol for eleven years. He has held visiting professorships and fellowships at Sciences Po. Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Netherlands Institute of

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00:56:47

S3 Bonus Brian K. Feltman - Georgia Southern University

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/03/30

By popular demand, we are finally interviewing each other! Today, Bill convinced Brian to sit down with him in Bill's American Military Experience class at Georgia Southern University for a live recording, in front of students no less! Brian K. Feltman, not to be confused with the notorious other Brian Feltman from Georgia, is Professor of History (newly promoted!) at Georgia Southern University. He is a scholar of Modern Germany and the First World War and teaches courses on the same at

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00:57:51

S3E9 Vanya Bellinger - US Naval War College

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/03/28

Our guest today is former journalist and now historian Vanya Eftimova Bellinger. Vanyais Assistant Professor of Strategy and Policy Development at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She previously served as an assistant professor at Air University’s Global College of Professional Military Education and a visiting assistant professor at the US Army War College. Vanya received her BA in Public Relations and Communications at Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski, in Sofia, Bulgaria,

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01:10:11

S3E8 Gary Sheffield - University of Buckingham

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/03/21

Our guest today is the prolific scholar and Arsenal supporter Gary D. Sheffield. Gary is Visiting Professor at the Humanities Research Institute of theUniversity of Buckingham and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wolverhampton, where he set up the First World War Programme. He was previously Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham and Professor of Modern History at King's College London. He also served as Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course at the Joint

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01:09:54

S3E7 David Morgan-Owen - King's College, London

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/03/14

Today's guest is David Morgan-Owen. Dave is a Reader in the History of War in the Defence Studies Department at King's College, London. From 2019-2021, he served as Academic Programme Director for the Intermediate Command and Staff Course (Land) and the MA in Military and Security Studies. He received all of his degrees from the University of Exeter and has a park bench on campus named in his honor after having spent so many years there (not really, but we could start a campaign?). He has held

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01:06:08

S3E6 John McManus - Missouri University of Science &...

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/03/07

Our guest today is one of the leading historians of the American soldier John C. McManus. John is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of US Military History at the Missouri University of Science & Technology. He earned a BA in Sports Journalism and an MA in History from the University of Missouri, then received his PhD in History from the University of Tennessee (Bill says UT-Austin has the correct shade of orange; John, not surprisingly, disagrees). While at Tennessee, he served as the Assistant

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00:59:55

S3E5 Allison Finkelstein - Arlington National Cemetery

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/02/28

Today’s guest is historian and ballet dancer Allison Finkelstein. Allison is Senior Historian at Arlington National Cemetery. She is an alumna of the College of William and Mary and earned her PhD in History at the University of Maryland at College Park. Allison previously worked as a historian for the US Citizenship and Immigration Services History Office & Library and as a Historical Consultant for the American Battle Monuments Commission and the US Vietnam War Commemoration Office. From

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01:12:19

S3E4 Ricardo Herrera - US Army War College

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/02/21

Our guest today is Ricardo Herrera. Rick is a Visiting Professor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He received his BA from the University of California, Los Angeles (also known as UCLA) and his PhD in History from Marquette University. Before joining the Army War College, Rick was Professor of Military History in the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) at the US Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) in Fort

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01:06:07

S3E3 Anna McKay - University of Liverpool

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/02/14

Our guest today is Dr. Anna Lois McKay (that's pronounced McKai!). Anna is the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Liverpool, where she is working on a project titled "Prisoners’ Progress: Imperial Circulations of War Captives, 1793–1815.” She is a specialist on 18th-Century prison hulks, prisoners of war, and forced migration. In 2021-22, Anna was a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English at University College Cork. She was the Alan Pearsall Fellow

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01:10:09

S3E2 Brian Linn - Texas A&M University

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/02/07

Today's guest is the prolific, experienced, fan of the Rolling Stones and recently announced 2023 Society for Military History Samuel Eliot Morrison awardee Brian McAllister Linn! Brian is Professor of History and Ralph R. Thomas Class of 1921 Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. Brian has been at Texas A&M since 1989, but he had visiting positions at Old Dominion and Nebraska before landing in College Station. He attended the University of Hawaii for his BA and earned his MA

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01:03:31

S3E1 Erin McCoy - University of South Carolina at...

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2023/01/31

Our guest today is Dr. Erin R. McCoy, and we are talking with her live from the campus of the University of South Carolina-Beaufort! Erin is an Associate Professor of English & Interdisciplinary Studies and is a past Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at USC-Beaufort. Erin earned a BA in English from Wingate University, located in the conveniently named town of Wingate, North Carolina. She has an MA in English from Clemson University and a PhD in Humanities from the University of

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01:05:51

S2E25 Gregory A. Daddis - San Diego State University

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2022/12/20

Welcome to the final episode of Season 2 and our 50th overall episode! We can’t thank all of you enough for listening to, sharing, subscribing to, and supporting Military Historians are People, Too! As we often say, we’ll keep doing it if you keep listening. Season 3 is coming at the end of January! Our special 50th-episode guest is Gregory A. Daddis, who has been bugging us for months to be on the show. Greg is the USS Midway Chair in Modern US Military History and the Director of the Center for

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01:00:43

S2E24 Harry Franqui-Rivera - Bloomfield College

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2022/12/13

Our guest today is the infectiously inspirational Harry Franqui-Rivera. Harry is Associate Professor of History and Coordinator of History and Global Languages at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Before landing at Bloomfield, Harry held visiting and adjunct positions at Marist College, Skidmore College, Lehman College (City University of New York), and he was a Research Associate at CENTRO - The Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York. Harry earned

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00:59:11

S2E23 Hayley Hasik - University of Southern Mississippi

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2022/12/06

So what does a graduate student think of all this? Let’s find out! Our guest today is Hayley Hasik, a PhD candidate at Southern Mississippi University. Her dissertation is titled “The Helicopter War: Unraveling the Myth and Memory of a Vietnam War Icon,” and she is slated to graduate in May 2023. Her doctoral advisor is friend-of-the-pod and our very first guest on Military Historians are People, Too! Heather Stur! Haley earned her BA in History and English at Texas A&M University-Commerce and

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01:02:29

S2E22 Philip Shackelford - South Arkansas Community...

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2022/11/29

Today's guest is the hard-working fellow podcaster Philip Shackelford!Philip is the Director of the College Library at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado, Arkansas. Before joining South Arkansas Community College, Philip held internships and positions at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, the University of Akron, and the Twinsburg Public Library in Twinsburg, Ohio. He earned a BA and MA in History and his MLIS from Kent State University

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01:03:06

S2E21 Tait Keller - Rhodes College

Military Historians are People, Too! ·

2022/11/22

Today’s guest is environmental historian Tait Keller.Tait is an Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. He is also the former Director of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Rhodes. Tait received his BA in History from the University of Rochester and earned his MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University and his PhD in History from Georgetown as well. Tait’s first book, Apostles of the Alps: Mountaineering and Nation

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