The History of Literature podcast interviews Reading Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls: Glossary and Commentary author Alex Vernon
“In this episode, Jacke talks to editor Alex Vernon about his line-by-line analysis of For Whom the Bell Tolls for the Reading Hemingway series. PLUS Sandra Spanier (series editor of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway project) stops by […]

Emerging Civil War reviews The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips: Abolitionism, Democracy, and Public Interest Law by Peter Charles Hoffer.
“Hoffer’s research in The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips is thorough, his arguments are well-argued, and his interpretation of Phillips’s importance in American history will have more students of the Civil War-era reevaluating his unfortunately shadowed role […]

don’t miss this informative interview with Stephen Terrell, author of the new book The Madness of John Terrell: Revenge and Insanity on Trial in the Heartland. 
In early 1900s Indiana, John Terrell was the wealthiest man in Wells County, thanks to oil discovered on his farm. But when his youngest daughter, Lucy, became pregnant and entered into a […]

TIMOTHY S. HUEBNER is the winner of the 2024 John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History in the past year. Huebner’s “Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest” is a masterpiece of scholarship that provides a definitive account of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s slave trading business before the Civil War and how and why he and his apologists tried so hard to downplay it for decades after. Huebner’s exhaustively researched and richly textured account reveals Forrest to have been an aggressive, large-scale trafficker in human beings whose Memphis operations in the 1850s expanded to among the largest and most lucrative in the South. Piecing together fragments of evidence about Forrest’s slave dealing, including from descendants of those he trafficked, Huebner’s research located the sites of Forrest’s operations in Memphis and led to a wider reckoning with this history in the city.

The Business Journal gives us this in-depth interview of Joseph Lambert Jr., author of The Political Transformation of David Tod: Governing Ohio during the Height of the Civil War. 
“Tod, who supported Lincoln’s rival, the northern Democrat Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, now found himself supporting the cause of the Union as southern states seceded and formed the […]