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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) Interviewed for “As The Opium Trade Boomed In The 1800s, Boston Doctors Raised Addiction Concerns,” Common Health, WBUR (Boston NPR), August 2017