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Susan McCready sits down with Pat Cesarini, Associate Professor of English at 91ÌÒÉ« to discuss Mobile's Admiral Semmes monument and public memory. 

 

Susan McCready talks with David Messenger, War & Memory co-director and chair of History, and 91ÌÒÉ« student Madison Nicholson about the historical research behind the Center's Mapping Confederate Memory exhibit.  .

 

Frye Gaillard speaks with Jennifer Haytock, Professor of English at the College at Brockport, SUNY and author of the forthcoming Routledge Introduction to American War Literature, about American war literature across the centuries.

 

Historian Martin Parsons talks with guest host Steven Trout about the evacuation of British children during the Second World War. He discusses the lasting trauma suffered by the evacuees and children in later conflicts who became the "invisible casualties" of war.

 

Mike Bunn, Director of the Historic Blakeley State Park, near Spanish Fort, Alabama talks with guest host Steve Trout about the Civil War Battle of Blakeley, Civil War memory, and historic preservation.

Historian Douglas Bristol of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi speaks with guest host Susan McCready about integration in the US military from Truman's 1948 executive order that ended the segregation of African-American troops, through Trump's order to bar transgender troops from serving. The discussion touches on the expansion of military roles for women and Don't Ask Don't Tell in the context of broader societal changes. 

 

Susan McCready sits in for Frye Gaillard to talk with historian Mara Kozelsky about the 2017 Centennial of the Russian Revolution. How is post-Soviet Russia commemorating the war that brought an end to the tsars? Spoiler alert: Twitter is involved.

 

Frye Gaillard chats with Major General Janet Cobb, Executive Director of the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park about this important site of memory on the Causeway.

 

Frye Gaillard sits down with Robert Adams, a veteran of the US War in Vietnam to talk about a special reading group in which veterans discuss war literature.

 

Frye Gaillard talks with Stephen C. Murray about the 1944 Battle of Peleliu in the Palau archipelago and the memory of this chapter of the Second World War among the Japanese and Americans who fought the battle and among the Peleliu islanders, whose home was devastated by the battle. Stephen Murray is the author of .