Past Talks

Selected Past Talks and Videos

"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