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Recorded in the fall, Colin talks about his love of stand up comedy as well as his recent trips to the Funny Bone in Richmond, where he saw T. J. Miller and Doug Stanhope. In the intro, the Rambler examines how there’s no great way to travel from Virginia to…

  Dan Carter is one of the best historians of the South. A native of South Carolina, he won the Bancroft Prize for his first book, Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, which was published in 1969. Since then, he has written about the Reconstruction period, before turning his…

American Rambler talks some music, including an overview of his vinyl collection, hitting on bands and solo artists in the H-J range. Ginger Baker makes an appearance from beyond the grave. Colin gives a few thoughts on the new Wilco record. And everyone should know about Adam Faucett. http://americanrambler.libsyn.com/podcast/episode-154-the-november-music-show

Trae Wisecarver is the “Outlaw Historian,” and he’s not messing around. A native of southern Arkansas, he’s working on his Ph.D in history at Texas A & M University, where he is writing about the Civil War in his home state. Trae became a Twitter sensation in 2019. He took…

By Colin Woodward Like so many fools out there, a few years ago I started a podcast. It’s called American Rambler and you can find it at www.americanrambler.libsyn.com. It’s also available at Spotify, Stitcher, Anchor, and other places. I am by no means a podcasting success story. Maybe more of…

In part two of Colin’s talk with Brent J. Steele, Brent discusses his newest book, Restraint in International Politics, which is available from Cambridge University Press. And with several decades of college life between them, Colin and Brent talk about striking a good balance between work and life. How do…

Brent J. Steele is the head of the political science department at the University of Utah. As he tells Colin, it was an intro to American politics his freshman year at college that made him want to become a college professor. A native of Iowa, he also got his Ph.D.…

In this episode, Colin provides a brief overview of the General Sam V. Wilson Papers project, which he is working on at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. Sam Wilson was a native of Rice, Virginia, and a veteran of the Burma campaign during World War II. The American offensive in Burma…

John Sacher is the head of the history department at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He is also the author of A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824-1861. John has been on a steady career path, but as he tells Colin, he had…

Matt Hulbert was “born in the shadow of Stone Mountain,” but it wasn’t until much later in life that he knew the place’s controversial history. By then, he was well on his way to becoming a Civil War historian. First, though, he had to lay aside his dream of becoming…