The Civil War

"Into the Belly of the Beast: The Southern Arm of the Underground Railroad"

Rich Fisher — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:10:32 +0000

Our guest on this installment of ST is Richard Blackett, the Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, who joins us by phone.

"Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year"

Rich Fisher — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:27:42 +0000

For this installment of ST, on the day after Presidents' Day, we are looking back on the war-torn tenure of our nation's greatest president, Abe Lincoln. Our guest is the author and journalist David Von Drehle, whose widely acclaimed and most recent book, "Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year," was named one of the Kansas City Star's Top 100 Books of 2012.

The Best of ST in 2012: Civil War Historian David Blight

Rich Fisher — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:28:20 +0000

On this "best of" edition of our show, we're listening back to a discussion from earlier this year with Professor David Blight, the acclaimed Civil War historian based at Yale University.

"The Man Who Saved the Union"

Rich Fisher — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:29:35 +0000

On this edition of ST, a reappraisal of U.S. Grant; we are pleased to welcome back to our show the bestselling author and acclaimed historian H.W. Brands, who's also the Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. In an event co-presented by Book Smart Tulsa and the Gilcrease Museum, Prof. Brands will present a reading/signing/discussion of his newest book, "The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace," at Gilcrease on Thursday of this week (the 25th) at 7pm.

"The Memory Boom in Public History at the Civil War Sesquicentennial"

Rich Fisher — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:18:14 +0000

Today and tomorrow (May 18th and 19th), the University of Tulsa and Gilcrease Museum will host a two-day symposium to announce the now-being-planned Helmerich Center for American Research, a new scholarly resource to be constructed on the grounds of the museum. The symposium is entitled "Material Memory" (and you can learn all about it at this link). Our guest on this edition of StudioTulsa is the award-winning Civil War historian, David W.