History Camp Discussions Archive
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Timothy B. Smith — The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West
History Camp Discussions, 1800s, Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate Army, Military History, Native Americans/Indigenous Peoples, Timothy B. Smith, United States, US Civil War (1861–1865), US Western Frontier / Expansion
Claire Bellerjeau & Tiffany Yecke Brooks, PhD — Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
History Camp Discussions, 1700s, American Revolutionary War (1776–1783), Claire Bellerjeau, Espionage + Spy-Craft, Slavery and Abolitionists, Tiffany Yecke Brooks PhD, United States, US–New York, US–South Carolina
Susan Nagel, PhD — Patriotism and Profit: Washington, Hamilton, Schuyler, and the Rivalry for America’s Capital City
History Camp Discussions, 1700s, 1800s, Government, Post-American Revolutionary War / Founding (>1783), Susan Nagel PhD, United States, US Founding Fathers, US Presidents, US–New York, US–Washington DC
Kathleen DuVal, PhD — Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
History Camp Discussions, 1700s, African Americans, American Revolutionary War (1776–1783), Kathleen DuVal PhD, Loyalists, Native Americans/Indigenous Peoples, Slavery and Abolitionists, United States, US–Florida, Women
Lindsay M. Chervinsky, PhD — The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
History Camp Discussions, 1700s, American Colonial Era (1607–1776), American Revolutionary War (1776–1783), Continental Army, Lindsay M. Chervinsky PhD, Politics, Post-American Revolutionary War / Founding (>1783), United States, US Founding Fathers, US Presidents
About History Camp Author Discussions
Weekly History Camp Author Discussions use a lively, conversational approach to learn more about an interesting historical topic from a noted history author. Past guests include David Blight, Tom Clavin, Charles Fishman, Allen Guelzo, Arthur Herman, Damien Lewis, Joyce Lee Malcolm, Thomas Ricks, Andrew Roberts, Stacy Schiff, and Amity Shlaes, among many others.
History Camp Author Discussions are free to all—no registration needed—and stream to our HistoryCamp.org/discussions page and to multiple social media platforms. After the broadcast, they live on forever in our archive at HistoryCamp.org/archive, each on a dedicated page with additional information about the author.
Topics cover all aspects of history. We do not include historical fiction and we do not cover modern politics. (For “modern,” we draw the line at the Nixon administration.) If a book includes modern history, we take our discussion up to that point and leave our guests to read more in the author’s book.
Many books discussed on History Camp Author Discussions are available for purchase through The Pursuit of History bookshop.
A project of the non-profit organization The Pursuit of History
History Camp Author Discussions are a project of the The Pursuit of History, the non-profit organization that engages adults in conversation about history and connects them with historic sites in their communities and across the country through innovative in-person and online programming.
History Camp was founded in 2014 as an annual in-person event. History Camp Author Discussions began in April 2020. With the re-opening of in-person events beginning with History Camp Boston 2022, we have had some of our guests on History Camp Discussions join us and present in-person. At History Camp Boston 2023, four Discussion guests joined us and presented at Suffolk University Law School, the venue for our annual event that is on the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston and directly across from the Old Granary Burying Ground.
Contact us
To recommend a book or offer an author for History Camp Discussions, contact us at Discussions@HistoryCamp.org. We look forward to hearing from you.