Episode 94: Oracle of Lost Causes - Matthew Christopher Hulbert (On the Bookshelf, Part 4)

Season 5 (2022-2023)

Episode Description

In this episode, Matthew Christopher Hulbert joins host Sean Rost to discuss his new book, Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War.

Episode Image: John Newman Edwards, date unknown [Nancy Ehrlich Collection (P0013), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Obelisk grave marker surrounded by fence on James Family Farm, ca. 1898 [Clay County, Missouri, Photograph Collection (P1112), SHSMO]

About the Guest

Matthew Christopher Hulbert is an Elliott Associate Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He is the author of The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers became Gunslingers in the American West, winner of the 2017 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, and coeditor of Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America.