Upcoming Presentations and Interviews
“Black Men in Lincoln Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” Norwalk Public Library, Norwalk, Ohio, 2025, TBA.
“For Their Own Cause: The Twenty-Seventh United States Colored Troop,” Rock River Civil War Round Table, on Zoom, February 3, 2025.
“Black Men in Lincoln Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” Greater Pittsburgh Civil War Round Table, Allison Park, Pennsylvania, June 16, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.
Selected Past Talks and Media
“Black Men in Lincoln Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” Ohio County Line Historical Society of Wayne and Holmes County, Shreve Presbyterian Church, Shreve, Ohio, April 20, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
“Black Men in Lincoln Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” Massillon Museum Brown Bag Lunch Series, Massillon, Ohio, February 27, 2024, at 12:00 p.m.
“Frederick Douglass and the United States Colored Troops,” 2nd Saturday Civil War Series, Captain Thomas Espy Grand Army of the Republic Post at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, Carnegie, PA, February 10, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
“Ohio Women and the Civil War Home Front,” Cuyahoga County Public Library, Solon, Ohio, November 20, 2023, at 7:00 p.m.
“Black Men in Lincoln Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” Fall Speaker Series, Spring Hill Historic Home Underground Railroad Site, Massillon, OH, October 17, at 6:00 p.m.
“Give my love to each of our dear little ones”: Examining Fatherhood through the Private Letters of Black Civil War Soldiers and Sailors,” at the “More Than an Eagle on The Button” Symposium, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, October 12-13, 2023.
“Letters Home: Ohioans and Their Wartime Correspondence,” Cleveland Grays Armory Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, August 31, 2023, at 6:00 p.m.
“For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops,” The March to Freedom History Conference, Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park, Carlisle, Kentucky, June 10, 2023, at 11:00 a.m.
“Letters Home: Ohioans and Their Wartime Correspondence,” Williams County Public Library, Bryan, Ohio, May 15, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.
“Black Men in Lincoln Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” Cuyahoga Valley Civil War Round Table, Peninsula Library and Historical Society, Peninsula, Ohio, March 8, 2023, at 7:30 p.m.
“Legacies of Black Veterans,” panelist, National Veterans Memorial and Museum, Columbus, Ohio, February 26, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. (event is free but requires preregistration)
“Black Men in Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” Delaware County Historical Society, Delaware, Ohio, February 22, 2023, at 7:00 p.m.
“Black Men in Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” Sandusky Public Library, Sandusky, Ohio, February 21, 2023, at noon.
“Black Men in Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” Pike Heritage Museum, Waverly, Ohio, November 12, 2022.
“Black Men in Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” Wayne County Civil War Round Table and the Wayne County Public Library, Wooster, Ohio, 6:30 p.m., September 20, 2022.
“Black Men in Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” Tuscarawas Valley Civil War Round Table and the Dover Public Library, Dover, Ohio, 6:30 p.m., September 8, 2022.
“Ohio Women and the Civil War Home Front,” Civil War Symposium sponsored by the Cadot-Blessing Camp #126 of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and the Battle of Buffington Island Preservation Foundation, Bossard Memorial Library, Gallipolis, Ohio, May 7, 2022.
“Letters Home: Ohioans and Their Civil War Correspondence,” Kent Civil War Society, Kent , Ohio, April 12, 2022
“For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops,” Annual Meeting of the Alliance Area Preservation Society, Rodman Public Library, Alliance, Ohio, March 28, 2022.
“African American Soldiers during the U.S. Civil War,” Combat Morale Podcast with Dr. Tom Thorpe, Season 1, Episode 3, January 20, 2022
“The 27th United States Colored Troops,” Ohio Valley Civil War Roundtable, Wheeling, WV, November 6, 2021
“The 27th United States Colored Troops,” Western North Carolina Civil War Roundtable, virtual, October 11, 2021
“Remembering the Black Soldiers that Won the Civil War,” episode 5 of Ohio v. the World with Alex Hastie, podcast. June 14, 2021
“Remembering the United States Colored Troops Who Helped Win the Civil War,” interviewed by Javonte Anderson. USA Today, May 31, 2021
“Black Men in Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the 27th United States Colored Troops,” for the General William H. Lytle Camp #10, Department of Ohio, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Ironton, Ohio, May 29, 2021. Ironton Tribune, June 3, 2021
“Ohioans and their Wartime Correspondence,” Sandusky Library, Virtual Brown Bag History, March 16, 12:00 p.m.
“Ohio Women in the Civil War Home Front,” Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley, March 18, 7:00 p.m.
“Condolence Letters from the United States Colored Troops,” with Jake Wynn of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, February 19, 2021. Thank you to everyone who watched live!
H-Civ War Round Table on the African American Family, February 9, 2021
“Black Men in Blue: The Civil War, Ohioans, and the United States Colored Troops,” for the Mohican Historical Society, The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum’s Speaker Series, Loudonville, Ohio, November 18, 2019
“The United States Colored Troops and their Service as Guards in Civil War Prisons,” Quincy Gilmore Civil War Round Table of Lorain County, Elyria, Ohio, November 4, 2019
“Ohio Women and the Civil War Home Front,” Peninsula Foundation Civil War Lecture Series, GAR Hall, Peninsula, Ohio, July 25, 2019
“Letters Home: Ohioans and Their Wartime Correspondence,” Milan Public Library, Milan, Ohio, May 18, 2019
“U.S. Colored Troops as Prison Guards on C-Span, taped at the Fourth Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, Spotsylvania, Virginia, August 4, 2017
For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops, Golden Opportunities, show #836, WKYC, Cleveland, Ohio, March 26, 2017
Plenary Panel: The Future of Midwestern History, Finding the Lost Region, Second Annual Midwestern History Conference, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 1, 2016
“‘I Have Seen More since I Left Home than I Ever Supposed There was in the World’: Black Soldiers, Midwestern Community Correspondence, and the Civil War,” The Midwest and the Civil War Panel, Finding the Lost Region, Second Annual Midwestern History Conference, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 1, 2016