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So, you wanna be a musician? Listen to Colin’s talk with Mark Carson to find out. Mark has a doctoral degree from Louisiana State University, where he graduated in 2003 after completing a dissertation on southern politicians and the Vietnam War. Mark has long been playing and recording music, but…

Jon Bachman stops by again to talk with Colin about a film he recently saw and is excited about, Rumble: Native Americans Who Rocked the World. Jon discusses Link Wray’s Virginia connections, Jon’s family’s own music history, the realities of teaching history to the pubic, and of course, politics. It’s…

John Heckman is the Tattooed Historian. He is prone to go “all in” when it comes to his work. But as he tells Colin, it took him a while before he decided history was what he wanted to do with his life. Despite the fact that he was running a…

No one has asked me for the solution to the issue of Confederate monuments, but I have it. To quote one of my favorite historians, Larry David (who has bachelors in history from the University of Maryland), a good compromise is when both sides are equally unhappy. Larry was referring…

Over the past thirty years, Brian Palmer has worked at various jobs around the globe as a journalist, filmmaker, photographer, and teacher. He is based in Richmond now, but he is originally from the northeast, where he attended Brown University. Since then, he has covered news in places as diverse…

In preparation for a talk he recently gave at an undisclosed location, Colin talks about his career as an archivist, which began in 2007 at the Virginia Historical Society and has continued on to Smith College, the University of Arkansas Little Rock, and Stratford Hall. What’s it like being an…

Dave Coogan is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also the editor of Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail, which collects stories from various people who who found themselves in the criminal justice system in Richmond. A native of New England, Dave talks about how…

A native of Georgia with humble roots and a love for music (including Johnny Cash), historian Keri Leigh Merrit has been busy. She is the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (2017) and is the co-editor of Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and…

Thomas Bevilacqua is a California native who has spent a lot of time in the South. Earlier this year, he graduated with a Ph.D. in English at Florida State University, where he now teaches. He talks with Colin about his dissertation research, which is based on many years of studying…

Craig Belcher is the Arts and Entertainment Editor at Richmond Magazine. But as he tells Colin, he’s been writing and working as a journalist for a long time. A native of the Richmond area, he has seen many changes happen in the print industry over the past few decades. Craig…