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About Daniel Kilbride
NBN Episodes hosted by Daniel:
February 16, 2015
The Cause of All Nations
Many Americans know about the military side of the Civil War, and the private, official diplomacy of the Civil War is also well documented. The Cause …
February 9, 2015
By the Rivers of Water
Jane Bayard Wilson and John Leighton Wilson were unlikely African missionaries, coming as they did from privileged slaveholding families in Georgia an…
January 1, 2015
Where the Negroes Are Masters
A kind of biography of the town of Annamaboe, a major slave trading port on Africa's Gold Coast, Randy J. Sparks's book Where the Negroes Are Masters:…
December 17, 2014
All Eyes Are Upon Us
When it came to race relations, the post-World War Two North was different -- better -- than the South. Or so white people in the northeast told thems…
September 8, 2014
The Half Has Never Been Told
An unflinching examination of the trauma, violence, opportunism, and vision that combined to create the empire for slavery that was the Old South, Ed …
May 20, 2014
Let Us Fight as Free Men
Recent controversies over integrating the military have focused on issues of gender and sexuality. In the 1940s and 50s, however, the issue was racial…
March 19, 2014
Ditch of Dreams
The environmental movement is such an integral part of our culture -- and especially the culture of the Democratic Party -- that we take its presence …
February 5, 2014
The Letters of C. Vann Woodward
Few historians have influenced their field the way that C. Vann Woodward (1908-99) changed the writing of southern history. First at Johns Hopkins and…
February 1, 2014
Upton Sinclair
Everybody knows the author of The Jungle was Upton Sinclair (or, if they're a little confused, they might say Sinclair Lewis). As Lauren Coodley shows…
December 20, 2013
The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World
This is a very timely book, coming as it does in the midst of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 -- the war that gave birth to the maroon commun…
November 16, 2013
Andrew Jackson, Southerner
What do most Americans know about Andrew Jackson, apart from that he's on the $20 bill and that he apparently had great hair? Probably not much. Maybe…
October 23, 2013
Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South
It's getting harder and harder to trailblaze in the field of American Studies. More and more, writers have to follow paths created by others, imposing…
October 19, 2013
Investing in Life
Life insurance! The very word sends shivers of excitement down the spine. OK, maybe not . . . but Sharon Murphy's book on the development of the life …
October 10, 2013
A New World of Labor
Ask most educated people about the development of American slavery, and you're likely to hear something about Virginia or, just maybe, South Carolina.…
September 20, 2013
The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery
How could members of a movement committed to cosmopolitanism accommodate nationalism? How could men and women committed to non-resistance reconcile th…
September 12, 2013
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820
Thanks in no small part to John K. Thornton, professor of history at Boston University, the field of Atlantic history has emerged as one of the most e…
September 6, 2013
Vaccine
Children born in the 1970s and 1980s received just a handful of vaccinations: measles, rubella, and a few others. Beginning the 1990s, the numbers of …
August 27, 2013
Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth
Deservedly or not, the members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) are often portrayed as one of history's Good Guys. The Society was the first organi…
August 10, 2013
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
What is a celebrity? And how has the definition of celebrity changed over the course of American history? Those questions are central to Charlene M. B…
July 26, 2013
The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal
Is there an institution in the United States that enjoys a better reputation than the American Red Cross? In her thorough, accessible new book The Ame…
June 22, 2013
The Farmer's Game
Contemporary baseball seems like a big city game. Major League Baseball does not have a Green Bay Packers, a small-market team that can contend with t…
June 12, 2013
Abraham Lincoln
What can be gained from another biography of Abraham Lincoln? A lot, it turns out. Michael Burlingame has been researching the life and times of Abrah…