Online Media
Check out presentations about Neil's research available online.
2025 Podcast with Emerging Civil War about Fort Pickens and its pivotal role at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Podcast with Emerging Civil War about by book Treasure and Empire in the Civil War: The Panama Route, the West and the Campaigns to Control America's Mineral Wealth.
2024 Podcast with Emerging Civil War about Admiral David Dixon Porter.
Interview about my work with Emerging Civil War and my favorite wartime naval activity from 1864 to study.
Interview about my work as a professor, historian, and author with Gabriel Garcia, the Wandering Scribe.
Presentation (beginning at 23:45 timestamp) given at the 2021 McMullen Naval History Symposium at the US Naval Academy, exploring the US Navy's convoys defending the Panama Route in the US Civil War.
Discussion on The American History Gazette in May 2024 my book Treasure and Empire in the Civil War: The Panama Route, The West and the Campaigns to Control America's Mineral Wealth.
Presentation and discussion on The Historian's Lounge in April 2023 about my paper "Postwar Identity Crisis of the Confederate Navy's Officer Corps.
Virtual presentation given in 2020 to the American Civil War Museum about my second book, Defending the Arteries of Rebellion.
Presentation and discussion on The American History Gazette in December 2023 about the importance of the Mississippi River in the Civil War and the impact of the river's 1862 freshet.
Virtual presentation given in January 2021 as part of a panel on the Civil War Era for the Louisiana Historical Association where I discuss the Confederacy's Chaing of Command and Order of Battle at the Battle of Forts Jackson and Saint Philip on April 24, 1862.
Virtual Presentation (beginning at the 42:58 timestamp) given on Febraury 24, 2023 to the Louisiana Historical Association panel on War and Tragedy in New Orleans where I discuss the persistence of the Mardi Gras spirit in Civil War New Orleans, as well as the Confederacy's persistence in Mardi Gras postwar.
Learn how gold was the key to victory for both the United States and Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War.
Presentation given to the Baton Rouge Civil War Roundtable in March 2022 about my second book, Defending the Arteries of Rebellion.
Virtual question and answer interview and discussion with Civil War Seattle, given in September 2022 about my second book, Defending the Arteries of Rebellion.
Presentation given to the Scottsdale Civil War Roundtable in September 2021 about my second book, Defending the Arteries of Rebellion.