Videos

John Coski talked about his book The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem, published by Belknap Press. In his book the author chronicled the history of the flag and the …

Ronald Heinemann talked about Virginia following World War II, and the social and political conservatism made the state resistant to change. Professor Heinemann argued that despite resistanc…

Mr. Lankford discussed his book, Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capitol, published by Viking. In it, he reconstructs the final moments in Richmond before the collapse of …

Gregg Kimball discussed some of the themes of his book American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond, published by the University of Georgia Press. The book descri…

Charles Bryan and Nelson Lankford talked about the book they co-edited, Robert Knox Sneden’s Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey, published by Free Press. Union private and mapmaker Sneden…

Nelson Lankford talked about his book, The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of Ambassador David K.E. Bruce, published by Little, Brown. Ambassador Bruce served in the Office of Strate…