Military Historians are People, Too!

Brian K. Feltman and Bill Allison

Join military history professors Brian Feltman and Bill Allison as they chat with fellow military historians, public historians, scholars of war and society, and other exciting people about military history, career paths, BBQ, and life in general on Military Historians are People, Too! Recently named among the Top Military History Podcasts by Feedspot.com! Thanks for listening!

  1. 2h ago

    Listener Highlight - Steve Cook, University of Wolverhampton

    We're starting a new "occasional" segment - Listener Highlight! For our first, we're chatting with Steve Cook in Peterborough, UK. Steve has a career in the travel industry but has always been, in his words, a "history nerd." At university, he spent a semester abroad at Ripon College in Wisconsin, taking a keen interest in American history. He's now pursuing an MA in history at Wolverhampton, looking at German POWs held in the camps near his home in Peterborough during World War II. Steve came to Military Historians are People, Too, via We Have Ways and History Rage, and we are most grateful for his support, for sharing on socials, and for his positive comments. We'll talk about becoming a Cheesehead, cathedral towns, the community that can come from listening to history podcasts, attending We Have Ways Fest, the off chance of picking up a Wolverhampton history program pamphlet, Oasis, and more. And if you are an avid listener, get in touch! Rec.: 10/08/2026

  2. 2d ago

    From the Vault: S3E19 James Kimble - Seton Hall University

    Our guest today is James J. Kimble. Jim is Professor of Communication & the Arts at Seton Hall University and is a scholar of war rhetoric and propaganda. From 1997-2005, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at George Mason University, where he was the Director of Forensics and Speech. He completed his BSEd in Communication & Political Science at the University of Nebraska and an MA, in Rhetoric & Communication at Kansas State University enroute to a PhD in Rhetoric & Political Culture at the University of Maryland, College Park. Jim is the author of two books, Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda (Texas A&M University Press) and Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II (University of Nebraska). The latter won the Nonfiction Book of the Year Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book. He has co-edited two books, Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms (Abbeville Press) with Stephanie Plunkett, and The 10¢ war: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II, with Trischa Goodnow. Jim has also written three documentaries for the Norman Rockwell Museum, and Produced/Directed/Written another, titled Scrappers: How the Heartland Won World War II (with T.R. Rondinella). He has authored more than two dozen articles and chapters, and he is the founding editor of the journal Home Front Studies. Finally, Jim served as a guest curator for the Norman Rockwell Museum international traveling exhibition. Jim is a Senior Fellow at the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, a Fulbright Scholar, and the recipient of the National Communication Association’s Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award. His research has reached academic and popular audiences. Jim's work on the identity of Rosie the Riveter appeared in People magazine, the New York Times, and on the television show Mysteries at the Museum, ultimately hitting over 1.3 billion media hits worldwide. Join us for a fun and very interesting chat with Jim Kimble. We'll talk Rosie the Riveter, war propaganda art, starting an academic journal, Mrs. Maisel, and the Alan Parson's Project! Shoutout to Taco John's! Please subscribe to this and all of your favorite podcasts, and visit our Swag Store on Zazzle! Rec.: 05/22/2023

    From the Vault: S3E19 James Kimble - Seton Hall University

  3. 4d ago

    S7E6 Richard Condon - National Park Service

    Our guest today is National Park Ranger Richard P. Condon. Rich is a Park Ranger and Volunteer Coordinator at the National Park Service’s Catoctin Mountain Park in Thurmont, Maryland, and previously served as a park ranger at Reconstruction Era National Historical Park in Beaufort, South Carolina, and the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, but he got the public history bug working one summer for the Franklin Battlefield Trust. A former Nashville session player (bass!), Rich earned his BA in Public History and Historic Preservation from Shepherd University and is currently completing an MA in 19th-century American History at Gettysburg College, where he actually lives within the Gettysburg National Military Park boundary. Rich is a co-founder and contributor to the online platforms Pennsylvania in the Civil War and Civil War Pittsburgh, as well as the American Battlefield Trust, Civil War Times, and the publication National Park Service. He is an award-winning historical interpreter and a frequent invited speaker at Civil War Roundtables and similar forums. Join us for another delightful chat - Rich tells us about Pittsburgh, visiting Gettysburg as a kid, Fred Rogers, Huffy bikes, angry folk bands, the trajectory of public history, dealing with know-it-all park visitors, living on a Civil War battlefield, and what to order at Primanti Brothers. Enjoy! Shoutout to Primanti Brothers in Pittsburgh! Rec.: 10/06/2026

  4. Oct 10

    S7 Special - Our Student Intern Caitlin Conroy!

    We wanted to introduce our FIRST EVER student intern - the pride of Warrington, Cheshire, UK - Caitlin Conroy! Caitlin is a history major at Georgia Southern University and a standout starting midfielder and defender for the Georgia Southern University Eagles Women's Soccer Team! "Ringo," as she is known to some of us because of her soccer days in Liverpool, is helping us with background on guests and learning the ropes of recording and editing, though she's already had good experience doing a podcast in Bill's Podcasting History course last Spring (you can listen to her episode of Get After Those Archives, the Georgia Southern University history student-produced podcast that Bill's class created!). We'll talk about coming to the States, and more specifically to Statesboro, from the UK, being interested in history as a kid, living in America, and surprising her with our knowledge of Gulliver's World Theme Park. We're glad to have Caitlin on the MHPTPodcast team! Shoutout to Caitlin's mom in Warrington! Rec.: 09/29/2026

  5. Oct 8

    From the Vault: S3E18 Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy - University of Virgnia

    Our guest today is the brilliant and entertaining Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. Andrew is Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the former Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. From 2015-2022 he was the Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Andrew also spent thirteen years at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he served as the Chair of the Department of History and held the Rosebush Professorship. Andrew attended Columbia University before earning a BA, MA, and PhD in History from Oriel College at Oxford University. Andrew is the author of The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University (University of Virginia Press), and is the co-editor with John Ragosta and Peter Onuf of The Founding of Thomas Jefferson’s University (University of Virginia Press) and European Friends of the American Revolution with John A. Ragosta and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press). Andrew is perhaps best known for The Men Who Lost America:  British Leadership, the Revolutionary War and the Fate of Empire (Yale University Press), which won numerous awards, including the George Washington Book Prize, The Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award in US History, the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution’s Excellence in American History Book Award, and the New-York Historical Society Annual American History Book Prize. His first book, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (University of Pennsylvania), has now gone through its third printing. In addition, Andrew is widely published in many of the top journals in the field. Andrew is an award-winning teacher and he has held numerous visiting professorships and fellowships. Most recently, he was a Visiting International Fellow at the Wilberforce Institute at Hull University. In 2016-17, he was the Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King’s College, London. Andrew is a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society and, of course, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Andrew first researched in an archive when he was only 15, and has never looked back. Join us as we chat about growing up in the US and the UK, the American War for Independence, the Grenadier Guards band, hosting Presidents at Monticello, and Virginia wines!

    From the Vault: S3E18 Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy - University of Virgnia

  6. Oct 6

    S7E5 Paul Bavill - History Rage Podcast!

    Our guest today is the creator, host, and producer of the popular podcast History Rage: Paul Bavill. By day, Paul is a welfare officer for Leeds City Council, but he's also an avid reenactor, covering everything from Tudor England to the Second World War. His group - Foreign Field Living History - regularly appears at the Chalke Valley History Festival, Gloucester History Festival, Chelsea History Festival, among others, and is often seen at English Heritage sites across the UK. But his main contribution to historical discourse comes through his fabulous podcast, History Rage, where Paul lets historians and scholars rant about what they see as senseless, useless, and counterproductive history myths that just won't go away! Many of these involve military history - Bill even assigns several episodes in his World War II course. Through hard work and sheer will, Paul has built a substantial following of loyal listeners and has had on some prominent folks in the history community, including several Friends-of-the-Pod! Can't recommend it enough. It's fun to chat with a fellow podcaster; you'll quickly tell Paul's a generous part of the pod community. We'll talk Leeds and West Yorkshire, rugby, Tudor tents, favorite military history rages, Meat Loaf, body snatcher Joseph Naples, Avro Aviation, Alien, and a first for us - Henry Ball's Anti-Garroting Pistol! We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did recording it. Shoutout to the historic Scarborough Hotel Pub in Leeds! Rec.: 9/29/2026

  7. Oct 1

    From the Vault: S3E17 Ian Isherwood - Gettysburg College

    Our guest today is the dapper, copiously quaffed, and brilliant Ian Andrew Isherwood. Ian is Associate Professor of War and Memory Studies in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Gettysburg College. He previously served as the Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute and chair of the Civil War Era Studies program. He is currently the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Ian earned his BA at Gettysburg College, his MA at Dartmouth College, and his PhD from the University of Glasgow’s Scottish Centre for War Studies.  Ian is the author of Remembering the Great War  (Bloomsbury) and the co-editor, with Steve Trout, of  Serpents of War: An American Officer's Story of World War I Combat and Captivity (forthcoming, University Press of Kansas). His articles have been published in War and Society, First World War Studies, War, Literature and the Arts, The Journal of Military History, and War in History. He is currently working on a book titled The Battalion: Citizen Soldiers on the Western Front, which is a history of a Kitchener volunteer battalion in the Great War. Ian is a member of the International Society for First World War Studies and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is also the creator and co-lead of The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs, a centennial First World War digital history project. Ian is beyond dedicated to his students. In 2019, he was recognized as the outstanding faculty mentor of undergraduate research in the humanities at Gettysburg, and he has taken his students to Europe for field research on several occasions.  Join us for a really fun and interesting chat with Ian Isherwood. We'll talk beer can collections, First World War memoirs and diaries, teaching at a liberal arts college and a major PME institution, life writing, Tom Waits, C. S. Lewis, and wearing t-shirts in public - that's a lot of ground! Shoutout to Chubby's BBQ! Rec.: 05/04/2023

    From the Vault: S3E17 Ian Isherwood - Gettysburg College

  8. Sep 29

    S7E4 Doug Delaney - Royal Military College of Canada

    Today's episode is a first - recorded from the historic Zodiac Lounge at Bruxelles Pub in Dublin, Ireland; it's Doug Delaney of the Royal Military College of Canada! While participating in the Empires and War Conference hosted by University College Dublin and the Royal Military College of Canada, we found time to sit down with Doug over a few pints of Guinness. A retired Lieutenant Colonel with over twenty-seven years' service in the Canadian Army, Doug has taught at the Royal Military College, where he earned his PhD, for almost as long. His military service includes deployments to Cyprus, Somalia, and Kosovo, and he's our first guest with a freefall parachutist rating. Doug's scholarship is impressive. He's written several books, including The Soldiers’ General: Bert Hoffmeister at War (UBC Press), Corps Commanders: Five British and Canadian Generals at War, 1939-1945 (UBC Press), and The Imperial Army Project: Britain and the Land Forces of the Dominions and India, 1902-1945 (Oxford University Press), and he co-edits (with Friend-of-the-Pod Aimée Fox) the McGill-Queen’s University Press series War and the British Empire. In addition to jumping out of helicopters, Doug has seen and done a lot both in uniform and as a teacher and historian. Enjoy this fun, honest chat, complete with legit Irish pub background noise! We'll talk flipping a coin, the value of history and the humanities for military officers, Bert Hoffmeister, A Bridge Too Far, the Rolling Stones, The Dubliners, and more - a lot about life in this one. Special thanks to Bruxelles Pub in Dublin for letting us record in the Zodiac Lounge! Rec.: 09/19/2026

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Join military history professors Brian Feltman and Bill Allison as they chat with fellow military historians, public historians, scholars of war and society, and other exciting people about military history, career paths, BBQ, and life in general on Military Historians are People, Too! Recently named among the Top Military History Podcasts by Feedspot.com! Thanks for listening!

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  • Creator
    Brian K. Feltman and Bill Allison
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    155
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Brian K. Feltman and Bill Allison
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