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The Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly MeetingsCWRT Dec 2025 meeting:Brian Jordan on Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil WarFor More info: www.chicagocwrt.org The Civil War visited unprecedented violence on the United States. That violence was also inscribed on the bodies and minds of the nearly two million men who donned Union blue between 1861 and 1865. How did Union veterans make sense of their physical, psychological, and emotional wounds as the nation plunged into the years of Reconstruction? How did the politics of the postwar years complicate their reintegration to civilian life and personal healing? Why were so many veterans so unwilling to let go of the war and its legacy, and what urgent messages d...
2025-12-221h 10
Think TheismVeritas 2024: Changing My Mind – A Skeptical Professor Meets a Surprising God w/ Dr. Molly WorthenVeritas Forum 4/15/2024 Video: https://youtube.com/live/Fob0Jj7jL_k How can we tell when we should change our mind? Join professors Molly Worthen and Lorien Foote for a discussion about how we negotiate the tension between skepticism and belief. Professor Worthen will describe the factors that led her to embrace faith after researching the good, the bad and the […]
2024-09-301h 23
The Veritas ForumChanging My Mind: A Skeptical Professor Meets a Surprising God | Molly WorthenIn today’s episode, you’ll hear the story of Molly Worthen. As a journalist and historian at UNC, Molly has written about Christians for years as an outsider. But in this conversation, she shares how something unexpected happened to her recently: she became one.
Molly talks with Lorien Foote, a history professor at Texas A&M. They explore Molly’s worldview before becoming a Christian, the evidence that led her to faith, and how changing her mind wasn’t as scary as she expected.
This forum was held at Texas A&M in Spring 2024. Thank yo...
2024-09-0545 min
The Gilded Age and Progressive EraZouave TheatersDuring the nineteenth century, the Zouave was everywhere. The uniform characterized by an open, collarless jacket, baggy trousers, and a fez, originated in French Algeria, but became common amongst military men in France, the United States, and the Papal States, taking on a life of its own. Historians Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown join us to explain the often-misunderstood outfit and its connection to colonialism, race, gender, fashion, and military tactics, and dress.Essential Reading:Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown, Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance (2024).
2024-08-211h 02
The Object of HistoryThunderbolt: A World War II Bomber Pilot's Canine CompanionIn this episode, we explore the story of Thunderbolt, a dog who served as a companion to an American bomber pilot and POW, Lieutenant Robert Payne, during World War II. Research Department Intern Ian Morrison guides us through this story by highlighting the letters and photos that he discovered in the MHS collection. Learn more about episode objects here: https://www.masshist.org/podcast/season-2-episode-3-thunderbolt Email us at podcast@masshist.org. Episode Special Guests: Ian Morrison, a Boston-area native, is a Junior at Bowdoin College where he is studying Hi...
2023-01-1534 min
The Modern Scholar PodcastUkraine, Podcasting, and the Profession of HistoryWelcome to the Modern Scholar podcast!
I'm glad you're here, and thank you for joining me today! Why was I inspired to create this series? Listen on and find out!
My guests today are Dr. Bill Allison and Dr. Brian Feltman, both from Georgia Southern University, and co-hosts of the wonderful podcast, Military Historians Are People, Too!
Dr. Bill Allison is a scholar of American military history, specifically the Vietnam War. He is a Professor of History at Georgia Southern University, joining the faculty there as Chair of the Department of History in 2008. Aft...
2022-05-031h 40Civil War Talk Radio1822-Lorien Foote-Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil WarLorien Foote, author of "Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War"
2022-03-0200 min
Civil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - March 2, 2022Lorien Foote, Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War
2022-03-0256 min
Military Historians are People, Too!S1E10 Daniel Krebs - US Army War College/University of LouisvilleToday we're chatting with the refined and gentlemanly Daniel Krebs. Daniel is the Harold Keith Johnson Visiting Chair in the Department of National Security and Strategy in the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA. At the War College, he offers courses on how prisoners of war impact strategic decision-making. Daniel is on loan to the War College from the University of Louisville, where he is Associate Professor of History specializing in Colonial & Revolutionary America and Military History. He received his undergraduate and M.A. degrees at the University of Augsburg in Germany before crossing the Atlantic to e...
2022-01-251h 20
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna70 | Stephen Karam On Crafting Authenticity In Our WritingStephen Karam is the Tony Award-winning author of The Humans, Sons of the Prophet and Speech & Debate. For his work he’s received two Drama Critics Circle Awards, an OBIE Award and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Stephen recently directed his first feature film, a rethought version of The Humans for A24 films, to be released in 2021. He wrote a film adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull starring Annette Bening, which was released by Sony Picture Classics. His adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard premiered on Broadway as part of Roundabout’s 2016 season. Recent honors include the inaugural...
2021-12-121h 02Military Historians are People, Too!S1E3 Lorien Foote - Texas A&M UniversityBrian 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 Academic Title; The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Manhood, Honor, and Violence in the Union Army (New York University Press, 2010), which was a...
2021-12-071h 11
A Better Peace: The War Room PodcastPOWs IN AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORYAs long as there has been war, there have been prisoners of war (POWs). If you have served in the U.S. military in the last 50 years you know of the Law of Armed Conflict, the Code of Conduct and the extensive efforts the nation takes to recover U.S. and allied POWs and those listed as Missing in Action (MIA). But it might surprise many people to learn that throughout history often little preparation has been made by any nation to account for, feed, house and transport enemy prisoners. And it is only recently that historians of these conflicts...
2021-03-3032 min
Virginia HumanitiesSticks and Stones (from "Death Before Dishonor")Historian Lorien Foote explains how 19th-century honor culture affected the drive and discipline of the Union Army during the Civil War.
2020-10-0709 minA Better Peace: The War Room PodcastON HOLDING THE ENEMY ACCOUNTABLE: CUSTOMS OF RETALIATION IN THE CIVIL WARThe ritual of retaliation codified what makes you legitimate [as a combatant] and what makes you not legitimate
How did combatants enforce the lawful practice of war prior to the Geneva Conventions and other conceptions of international laws of warfare? During the Civil War period, the answer was the customary practice of retaliation, which provides wronged combatants the opportunity to redress unlawful conduct by an opponent. Through a process of formal notification, threat of action, and binding honorable resolution, the Union and Confederacy managed to keep each other on the right side of the law. How and why this worked...
2019-06-0527 min
The AskHistorians PodcastAskHistorians Podcast 97 - Union Prisoners in the Civil War SouthToday we're joined by Professor Lorien Foote (Texas A&M University) to talk about Union prisoners in the Civil War South. Specifically, the prisoner exchange system, the role of 19th century concepts of honor, and how these prisoners escaped as the Confederacy broke down towards the end of the war. You can check out the discussion thread in the subreddit here.
2017-10-2455 min
Unlock The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Inspiring!The Yankee Plague by Lorien FootePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/214713to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Yankee Plague
Author: Lorien Foote
Narrator: Traber Burns
Format: mp3
Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
Release date: 11-07-16
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 68 ratings
Genres: Civil War
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2016-11-076h 54Civil War Talk Radio1304-Lorien Foote-The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union ArmyLorien Foote, author of "The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army"
2016-09-2100 minCivil War Talk RadioCivil War Talk Radio - September 21, 2016Lorien Foote, The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army
2016-09-2156 min
Hopkins Press Podcasts1.4 Lorien Foote on the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War (South Central Review special issue)Between 2011 and 2015, various celebrations and commemorations took place to mark the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. These events led to many conferences and academic discussions to take advantage of the heightened interest in the topic. Earlier this year, the journal South Central Review released a special issue on Historians and the American Civil War at the Sesquicentennial. Lorien Foote, guest editor of the issue, joined us to reflect its creation and contributions to this growing field of study.
2016-05-1710 min
The Aldersgate Kingdom Communityhttps://podpoint.com/aldersgatecsOn Jesus' Mission - Pastor Robert & Lorien Foote (10:30am)3/8/2015 - 10:30 AM
2015-03-0839 minThe Aldersgate Kingdom Communityhttps://podpoint.com/aldersgatecsOn Jesus' Mission - Pastor Robert & Lorien Foote (9am)3/8/2015 - 9:00 AM
2015-03-0834 min