The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians pursues scholarship in 19th century media history. Join us Nov. 13-15, 2025, for our signature event, the Sachsman Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, now in its 33rd year.

Podcast Episodes

Want to learn more about the Sachsman Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press and its scholarship and activities? Listen to a series of informative and interesting podcasts featured in Augusta University’s Research Report.

On this edition of the Research Report, Jim Ogden, the historian at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Parks, talks about doing history for the National Park Service. He discusses his own education and work at these two key Civil War battle sites with host David Bulla. Ogden participated in the 32nd Annual Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press. The comments and opinions of the guest and host are purely their own, and not necessarily the views of Augusta University. This podcast is produced by Jaxon Garner, and Jasmine Garcia is the director of the TVC Lab on the Summerville Campus of AU.

On this edition of The Research Report, Lincoln scholars Orville Vernon Burton of Clemson University and Greg Borchard of UNLV talk about research on Abraham Lincoln. Burton is the author of The Age of Lincoln, and Borchard is the author of Lincoln Mediated and Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley. They discuss with host David Bulla what upcoming Lincoln research they are working on–and what is still needed in Lincoln studies. Burton and Borchard were in Augusta as participants in the 32nd annual Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press. The comments and opinions of the guests and host are purely their own, and not necessarily the views of Augusta University. This podcast is produced by Jaxon Garner, and Jasmine Garcia is the director of the TVC Lab on the Summerville Campus of AU. The Research Report will soon have another episode with researchers at the Sachsman Symposium on the 19th Century Press:

On this edition of The Research Report, Katrina Quinn, professor at Slippery Rock University, talks with David Bulla about her book The Civil War Soldier and the Press. Quinn wrote the book with the late David Sachsman and Dea Lisica. It is the latest in a series of books from the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression. It is published by Routledge:

Dianne Bragg, Hub Burton, and Jennifer Moore join David Bulla for a discussion about the history of the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, which was started in the early 1990s by Dr. David Sachsman at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Sachsman was the West Chair of Excellence in the Department of Communication at UTC, and he ran the conference for three decades. A generation of mass communication historians cut their teeth at the conference, and the panelists discuss its impact on their careers. Bragg is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Alabama; Burton is a retired administrator from the University of Maine, and Moore is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Minnesota at Duluth. The Research Report is produced by Jasmine Garcia and Ethan Balducci. It is recorded in the TVC Lab at Augusta

University. It is a production of the AU Department of Communication, for which Bulla serves as chair: