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Selected media appearances:

• (Television) Opium Slavery, The Civil War, C-SPAN2, March 21, 2026

• (Podcast) Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis, New Books Network, podcast, December 2, 2025

• (Television) New York City’s Opioid Drug History: A Relentless Cycle, PBS THIRTEEN [NYC], September 18, 2024

• (Television) Opium Use in the Civil War Era Shenandoah Valley, American History TV, C-SPAN3, September 2023

• (Text) The Post-Civil War Opioid Crisis, JSTOR Daily, July 9, 2023

• (Text) America’s first opioid crisis grew out of the carnage of the Civil War, Washington Post, December 1, 2021

• (Text) Como Guerra Civil levou a 1ª epidemia de drogas dos EUA [How the Civil War led to the 1st US drug epidemic], BBC News Brasil, January 23, 2022

• (Radio) The Civil War’s Opioid Epidemic, With Good Reason, Virginia Humanities, December 3, 2021

• Hoe terecht is de ‘beeldenstorm’ in de Verenigde Staten? Nieuwsuur spreekt met de Amerikaanse historicus Jonathan Jones [How justified is the ‘iconoclasm’ in the United States? Nieuwsuur speaks with American historian Jonathan Jones], Nieuwsuur, NPO, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 16, 2021

• (Podcast) A medical historian on infectious diseases as the “third army” of the Civil War, STAT First Opinion Podcast, April 28, 2021

• (Television) Opiate Addiction and Civil War Veterans, American History TV, C-SPAN3, November 2020

• (Podcast) The “Dark Turn” in Civil War History, The Rogue Historian podcast, November 2020

• (Podcast) Opiate Addiction in the American Civil War, History Hack podcast, October 2020

• (Radio) As The Opium Trade Boomed In The 1800s, Boston Doctors Raised Addiction Concerns, Common Health, WBUR (Boston NPR), August 2017