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This week is a continuation of Eugene and Allison's talk with award-winning author and teaching professor, Scott Ellsworth, about his newly-released book, Midnight on the Potomac. Scott's book focuses on the last year of the Civil War, main characters like Abraham Lincoln, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jefferson Davis, and John Wilkes Booth while also utilizing several lesser-known players to tell the story. His writing draws the reader in, no matter their historical prerequisites, and brings riveting and important histories to the general population. This is a two-part episode, so tune in next week for the rest!

Sources:

Midnight on the Potomac, Scott Ellsworth

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This week Eugene and Allison talk to award-winning author and teaching professor, Scott Ellsworth, about his newly-released book, Midnight on the Potomac. Scott's book focuses on the last year of the Civil War, main characters like Abraham Lincoln, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jefferson Davis, and John Wilkes Booth while also utilizing several lesser-known players to tell the story. His writing draws the reader in, no matter their historical prerequisites, and brings riveting and important histories to the general population. This is a two-part episode, so tune in next week for the rest!

Sources:

Midnight on the Potomac, Scott Ellsworth

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Email: maybewatermaybevodka@gmail.com

Socials: @maybewatermaybevodka

Editing:

Jessica Newman

Music:

Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC

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This week Eugene and Allison talk about a female, African American serial killer named Clementine Barnabet. From grizzly murders, to time served in one of the nations'e toughest prisons and a possible lobotomy, this story covers a lot of ground. Tune in and let us know what you think!

Sources:

⁠The Toledo News-Bee - Google Books⁠

⁠"NEGRO HELD IN JAIL AT CROWLEY FOR BUTCHERY OF FAMILY OF FOUR" · Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders⁠

⁠HRWG Annual Symposium Proceedings⁠

⁠“A Very Queer Case” | Nova Religio | University of California Press⁠

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Allison Johnson & Eugene Potts

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Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC

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This week Eugene and Allison talk about a famous Kansas family and listener request, The Benders. Send us your recommendations and maybe we'll feature your request next!

Sources:

Library of Congress: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2024/10/bloody-benders/

Library of Congress: https://guides.loc.gov/homestead-act/introduction?loclr=blogser

Humanities Kansas: https://www.humanitieskansas.org/get-involved/kansas-stories/people/true-crime-in-kansas-the-mystery-of-the-benders

Kansas University Alumni: https://kansasalumnimagazine.org/magazine-article/bloody-benders-property/

Historical Marker Database: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=275329

Pittsburgh State: https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/439/

Harpers Weekly: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027796633&seq=477&q1=bender

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Kayla is back with us again this week to close out last week's episode on who gets to do history: the remembering, the forgetting, and the interpreting. Email us with your questions!

Book Mentions (cont. from Ep. 9 Part 1):

The Power of Place by Dolores Hayden

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michele-Rolph Trouillot

The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

All That She Carried by Tiya Miles

Podcast Recommendations:

The Intelligence by The Economist titled The Weekend Intelligence: The Memory Keepers, August 9, 2025

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Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC

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This week, Allison and Eugene are joined by Kayla Nelson, a public historian. She shares with us the details of who gets to do the remembering, forgetting, and interpreting of history and how those decisions are inherently non-neutral and often politically motivated.

Book Mentions:

The Power of Place by Dolores Hayden

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michele-Rolph Trouillot

The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

All That She Carried by Tiya Miles

Podcast Recommendations:

The Intelligence by The Economist titled The Weekend Intelligence: The Memory Keepers, August 9, 2025

Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC

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Allison and Eugene talk about how society treats White women.

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Allison and Eugene explain some of the standard terms we use in our field.

Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.