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The Author’s Corner with Joseph Beilein Jr.

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 13, 2023

Joseph Beilein Jr. is Associate Professor of History at Penn State Behrend. This interview is based on his new book, A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood (University of Georgia Press, 2023)....

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The Author’s Corner with Matthew J. Clavin

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 21, 2023

Matthew J. Clavin is Professor of American and Atlantic History at the University of Houston. This interview is based on his new book, Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War (NYU Press, 2023). JF: What led you to...

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The Author’s Corner with Sharon Ann Murphy

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 12, 2023

Sharon Ann Murphy is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History and Classics at Providence College. This interview is based on her new book, Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States (University of Chicago...

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Historian Joanne Freeman on the near scuffle between Mike Rogers and Matt Gaetz

John Fea   |  January 7, 2023

Here is part of what I wrote last night after the fourteenth ballot for Speaker of the House: Before the end of the vote, McCarthy had to walk up the aisle to talk to Matt Gaetz to try to get...

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The Author’s Corner with Elliott Drago

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 17, 2022

Elliott Drago is Editorial Officer of the Jack Miller Center. This interview is based on his new book, Street Diplomacy: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom in Philadelphia, 1820-1850 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Street...

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The Author’s Corner with Adam D. Mendelsohn

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 16, 2022

Adam D. Mendelsohn is Associate Professor of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. This interview is based on his new book, Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army (NYU Press, 2022). JF: What led you to...

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The Author’s Corner with Patrick Luck

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 25, 2022

Patrick Luck is Assistant Professor of History at Florida Polytechnic University. This interview is based on his new book, Replanting a Slave Society: The Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What...

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The Author’s Corner with Michael Verney

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 1, 2022

Michael Verney is Assistant Professor of History at Drury University. This interview is based on his new book, A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2022). JF: What...

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The Author’s Corner with Anna Koivusalo

Rachel Petroziello   |  July 1, 2022

Anna Koivusalo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki. This interview is based on her new book, The Man Who Started the Civil War: James Chesnut, Honor, and Emotion...

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The Author’s Corner with Janet Moore Lindman

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 9, 2022

Janet Moore Lindman is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Rowan University. This interview is based on her new book, A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America (Penn State University Press, 2022). JF:...

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The Author’s Corner with David Silkenat

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 14, 2022

David Silkenat is Senior Lecturer of American History at the University of Edinburgh. This interview is based on his new book, Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South (Oxford University Press, 2022). JF: What...

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The Author’s Corner with Damian Pargas

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 13, 2021

Damian Pargas is Professor of the History and Culture of North America at Leiden University. This interview is based on his new book, Freedom Seekers: Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800–1860 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). JF: What led you to...

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The Author’s Corner with Kelly Jones

Annie Thorn   |  April 12, 2021

Kelly Jones is Assistant Professor of History at Arkansas Tech University. This interview is based on her new book, A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas (University of Georgia Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write A...

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The Author’s Corner with Peter Wirzbicki

Annie Thorn   |  March 4, 2021

Peter Wirzbicki is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. This interview is based on his new book, Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write...

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The Author’s Corner with John Oldfield

Annie Thorn   |  November 16, 2020

John Oldfield is Professor of Emancipation and Slavery at The University of Hull. This interview is based on his new book, The Ties that Bind: Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1866 (Liverpool University Press, 2020). JF: What...

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The Author’s Corner with John Marks

Annie Thorn   |  October 26, 2020

John Marks is Historian and Public History Administrator for the American Association for State and Local History. This interview is based on his new book, Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas...

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John MacArthur’s views on slavery sound eerily familiar

John Fea   |  August 26, 2020

Someone just sent this to me. Here is Grace Community Church pastor John MacArthur, the subject of the recent controversy over the opening of churches during the COVID-19 pandemic, talking about the benefits of slavery. The video was posted in...

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The Author’s Corner with Warren Milteer

Annie Thorn   |  July 20, 2020

Warren Milteer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This interview is based on his new book, North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715-1885 (LSU Press, 2020). JF: What led you to write North Carolina’s Free People...

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The Author’s Corner with Daniel B. Rood

Annie Thorn   |  June 15, 2020

Daniel B. Rood is Associate Professor of History at the University of Georgia. This interview is based on his book, The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Great Caribbean (Oxford University Press, 2020). JF: What led you...

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The Author’s Corner with Christopher Leahy

Annie Thorn   |  May 14, 2020

Christopher Leahy is Professor of History at Keuka College. This interview is based on his new book, President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler (LSU Press, 2020). JF: What led you to write President Without a Party? CL: This book...

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