S1E24 Jonathan Jones - Virginia Military Institute - LIVE at Georgia Southern University!

Our guest for this very special LIVE recording of Military Historians are People, Too! is Jonathan S. Jones. Jonathan is an Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Military Institute, where he also serves as Deputy Director in the Adams Center for Military History & Strategic Analysis. Before joining the faculty at VMI, Jonathan was the Inaugural Postdoctoral Scholar in Civil War History at Penn State University’s George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. Jonathan earned his BA at Dallas Baptist University, then an MA at Texas Christian University, and finally at SUNY Binghamton, where he completed a doctoral dissertation titled “Opium Slavery: Veterans and Addiction in the American Civil War Era.” That dissertation won the Anne C. Bailey Dissertation Award from the Society of Civil War Historians and was a finalist for the Southern Historical Association’s C. Vann Woodward Prize. He is currently working on turning his dissertation into a book, which is under advanced contract with the University of North Carolina Press. Jonathan’s articles have appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era and Psychiatric Times, and he has also written for the Washington Post, VICE, The Civil War Monitor, and Slate, among others.

We want to thank a few people and organizations who helped make this live event possible. Fran Aultman, the office manager in the Department of History at Georgia Southern University handled all of our logistics and we appreciate her help. Our guest, Jonathan Jones, is with us courtesy of a Teagle Foundation Grant, organized by our colleague Dr. Felicity Turner - we appreciate the part she and the Teagle Foundation played in making this happen and for bringing Jonathan Jones to campus.

So join us for a great chat with Jonathan Jones in front of a student audience - we'll cover growing up playing video games in a small town outside of Ft. Worth, getting interested in the Civil War, teaching, and his interest in drugs (in relation to Civil War soldiers - come on, people!). Of course, BBQ will be on the menu!

Rec. 04/12/2022