Talks, Lectures, Radio and TV Interviews

Tiny Talk at Austin Assembly Hall Feb 18, 2025

What are Tiny Talks? Here’s a link to the newspaper article: https://www.lonestarlive.com/life/2025/02/a-look-behind-tiny-talks-austin-the-quirky-community-event-taking-the-capital-city-by-storm.html

From the latest to the Earliest

  • March 4, 2026, Texas State Historical Association Convention, “Heinrich von Struve’s Lebensbild.”
  • January 12, 2026, Colorado County Historical Association, “How small town Columbus built its Archives and Texas Room into one of the finest in the State.”
  • October 2, 2025, Nacogdoches, East Texas Historical Association, “How small town Columbus built its Archives and Texas Room into one of the finest in the State.”
  • September 19, 2025, Austin, German-Texan Heritage Society Convention, “Adelsverein”
  • Cuero, Talk to the DeWitt County Historical Convention about the Waltersdorf book.
  • August 21, 2025, Fredericksburg. Dedication of the Mormon Cemetery at Zodiac. “The Depiction of the Mormons commune at Zodiak in Friedrich Armand Strubberg’s historical novel Friedrichsburg.”
  • August 10, 2025, Austin, Interview on the Texas Standard about Waltersdorf’s History of DeWitt County.
  • April12, 2025, Talk at Civilian Center for Conservation, Herff farm, Boerne
  • February 18, 2025, Tiny Talk at Austin Assembly Hall on my Vietnam Book.
  • September 2, 2024, Boerne, German Texan Heritage Society Convention, “F. Kapp and the Lateiner at Sisterdale”
  • April 13, 2024. Texas Tech Vietnam Conference. With Bill Clamurro, “Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience”
  • March 2, 2024, Texas State Historical Association Convention, College Station, “Germans and Blacks.”
  • September 20, 2023, “Book Talk” TV Interview with PBS staion in College Station
  • August 17, 2023, La Grange Public Library, “Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience.”
  • August 10, 2023, Nesbitt Library, “Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience.”
  • July 29, 2023, Columbus, TX, Nesbitt Memorial Library, “Inside the Texas Revolution: The Enigmatic Memoir of Herman Ehrenberg”
  • July 10, 2023, Zoom interview and talk with Dan Oppenheimer of UT College of Liberal Arts Book Club about Vietnam memoir, “Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience: The Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat medics in Vietnam.”
  • June 22, 2023, Columbus, TX, Nesbitt Memorial Library, “Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience: The Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat medics in Vietnam.”
  • June 10, 2023, Radio interview with Thorner Dreyer of Rag Radio on KOOP 91.7. ”Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience: The Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat medics in Vietnam.”
  • June 7, 2023, Bob Bullock Museum, Austin, TX, with Bill Clamurro, “Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience: The Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat medics in Vietnam.”
  • Bob Bullock Museum, Austin, TX, with Bill Clamurro, “Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience: The Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat medics in Vietnam.”
  • June 2, 2023, Fredericksburg (Cherry Springs), Guardian Society of Gillespie County Historical Society, “John Meusebach”
  • April 15, 2023, San Jacinto Symposium, San Jacinto Junior College, “Germans in the Texas Revolution”
  • April 2023, Olli Forum, Thomson Center, University of Texas at Austin, “Germans in DeWitt County.”
  • Texas State Historical Association Convention, “Germans and Comanches”
  • October. 2022, Kleberg, von Roeder Family Reunion, Kleberg Heritage center, Kingsville, TX, C.A. Waltersdorf’s History of DeWitt County and the Kleberg, von Roeder contribution to the development of the county.”
  • September 2022, Brenham Historical Society, “Rudolph Kleberg and the Infamous Washington County Affair of 1885” Brenham, Texas
  • March 2022, Fredericksburg Historical Society, “Friedrich Armand Strubberg: Scoundrel or Hero?”
  • October 2021, Columbus Historical preservation Trust, Columbus, Texas, “The Stafford/Townsend Feud.”
  • March 2021, Texas State Historical Association Convention, Session leader and presenter: “The Adelsverein in Texas”
  • March 2020, Texas State Historical Association Convention, Session leader and presenter, “Germans and Comanches in Texas”
  • Spring 2019, Olli Forum, Thomson Center, University of Texas at Austin, “Texas Germans and Education”
  • June 2018, Sack-Ploeger family Reunion, Round Top, Tx. “Caspar Conrad Rordorf, Forgotten Swiss-German Artist of the Texas Frontier.”
  • March 22, 2018, Fredericksburg, TX, Pioneer Museum. “Adelsverein Endgame in Texas: 1847-1855.”
  • February 2018. Olli Forum, Thomson Center, University of Texas at Austin, “The German Influence on Texas.”
  • January 11, 2018, Houston, TX, Houston-Leipzig Sister City Partnership. “Die Lateiner am Possum Creek by W.A. Trenckmann”
  • December 10, 2017, Fayetteville, TX, Rural Arts Alliance, “Stafford/Townsend feud”
  • August 5, 2017, Fredericksburg, TX, Texas Ranger Museum, “Stafford/Townsend feud”
  • May 6, 2017, La Grange, TX, La Grange Library, Rohrdorf dedication, “Texas German artist Caspar Rohrdorf”
  • April 27, 2017, Millheim, TX, Engelking Family Reunion. “Die Lateiner am Possum Creek”
  • February 14, 2017, Austin, TX, Ollie Forum, Thompson Convention Center, University of Texas at Austin, “Stafford/Townsend feud”
  • January 24, 2017, Columbus, TX, Nesbitt Memorial Library, “Stafford/Townsend feud”
  • January 5, 2017, Columbus, TX, United Daughters of the Confederacy talk, “Stafford/Townsend feud”
  • November 12, 2016, Luling, TX, Caldwell County Historical and Genealogical Society, “The Stafford/Townsend Feud of Colorado County”
  • October 16, 2016, Round Top, TX, Sack/von Roeder Family reunion, “Von Roeder Family in Texas History”
  • Sept 15, 2016Nacogdoches, East Texas Historical Association, “Stafford-Townsend Feud of Colorado County”
  • April 28, 2016, San Antonio, Society of German American Studies Convention. “Friedrich Armand Strubberg and the education of Germans about Texas”
  • October 15, 2015, Clifton, Texas. The Legacy of Cleng Peerson.  A Conference in Connection with the 150th Anniversary of the Death of Cleng Peerson (1783-1865) “Patterns of German Immigration to Texas and migration within Texas in the late 19th Century”
  • September 4, 2015, Austin, Texas. German-Texan Heritage Society Convention. “Detlef Dunt’s Journey to Texas in 1833.”
  • June 16, 2015, Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus, TX. “Detlef Dunt’s Journey to Texas in 1833; First Book Published in Germany about Texas.”
  • February 2015, East Texas Historical Association Spring Meeting, Moderator for session on “Women in Texas History”
  • March 2, 2015, Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Corpus Christi, Texas, “Patterns of German Immigration in Texas in the 19th Century.”
  • September 7, 2014, Bob Bullock Museum, Austin, TX “Medevac in Vietnam: A personal perspective.”
  • June 14, 2014, Goethe Center, Dallas, TX  “Adelsverein in Texas.”
  • November 23, 2013, Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX “German Culture in the Texas Hill Country”
  • September 21, 2013, Festival Hill Symposium, Round Top, TX “German Frontier Architecture in Relationship to Primary Source Materials”
  • September 21, 2013, German Texan Heritage Society, Winedale, TX “Nassau Plantation Stories”
  • September 20, 2013, German Texan Heritage Society, Winedale, TX, “German Freidenker in Texas”
  • June 12, 2013, Symposium on the Vietnam Experience, University of Houston, Victoria Branch, Victoria, TX “The Evolution of Medevac during the Vietnam War”
  • May 15, 2013, Round Top Historical Society, Round Top, TX “Nassau Plantation”
  • October 16, 2012, Gillespie County Historical Association, Fredericksburg, TX, “Observations on the SPGET”
  • October 15, 2012, Department of Germanic Languages, University of Texas at Austin, “The Society for the Protection of German Emigrants in Texas; Fact and Fiction”
  • October 10, 2012, Books in the Basin, Meet the Authors, Odessa, TX, “From Thucydides to Texas”
  • September 27, 2012, East Texas Historical Society Annual Meeting,  “Double Jeopardy: Served in WWII; Recalled in Korea”
  • Sept 10, 2012, German Free School, Austin, TX, “Friedrichsburg by Friedrich Armand Strubberg”
  • August 11, 2012, Comfort Heritage Foundation, 150th Commemoration of the Battle of the Nueces, Comfort, TX, “The Battle of the Nueces in Historical Context”
  • August 2, 2012, Texas German Society Meeting, Victoria, TX, “Nassau Plantation and Fredericksburg, TX”
  • July 27, 2012, German-Texan Heritage Society Convention, New Braunfels, TX, (1) “Louis Cachand Ervendberg; Pastor, Educator, Naturalist” (2) “Friedrich von Wrede, Sr: From Waterloo to Texas”
  • July 26, 2012, Texas German Society Meeting, Katy Texas, “Nassau Plantation and Fredericksburg, TX”
  • June 21, 2012, Nesbitt Memorial Library Author Series, Columbus, TX, “Friedrichsburg by Friedrich Armand Strubberg”
  • June 3, 2012, 27th Annual Tall Grass Writers’ Symposium and Workshop, Emporia, Kansas, “Writing Texas History”
  • May 18, 2012, Gillespie County Historical Society Ist Annual Meusebach Lecture Series, Fredericksburg, TX, “Louis Cachand Ervendberg’s treatise on the Agricultural Prospects of West Texas”
  • March 27, 2012, West Texas Historical Association Annual Convention, San Angelo, TX, “The Delaware Indians of Texas”
  • March 10, 2012, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, New Braunfels, TX, “Nassau Plantation and Fredericksburg; How one Thing Leads to Another”
  • January 24, 2012, Weimar Book Club, Weimar, TX, “Nassau Plantation”
  • October 20, 2011, The Civil War in Texas: Changing Interpretations after 150 Years, Sponsored by Victoria College/University of Houston, Victoria, TX, “German Loyalties; Contrast and Reconciliation: Jacob Küchler and William von Rosenberg”
  • September 23, 2011, East Texas Historical Association Convention, Nacogdoches, TX, “Sam Houston: The Father of German Immigration in Texas” 
  • March 22, 2011, “Using Texas German History in the German Classroom.” Presentation at the Texas Foreign Language Association Convention. San Antonio, TX.
  •  March 4, 2010, “German Perceptions of Texas in the 19th Century as shaped by Friedrich Armand Strubberg and Detlef Dunt.”  Southwestern Historical Association Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. Dr. James Crisp of the University of North Carolina, moderator
  • June 2010, “Double Jeopardy: Served in WW II; Recalled for the Korean Conflict.” Symposium on the Korean War at Victoria College organized by Dr. James Smallwood and Charles Spurlin. Hosted by Jim Lehrer of PBS. 
  • April 1, 2006, “Home and Hearth: House Form and Domestic Space in Frontier Texas” with Dr. Ken Hafertepe of Baylor University, Winedale Spring Symposium, hosted by The Center for American History of the University of Texas, Austin and moderated by Dr. Don Carlton. 
  • May 3, 2003, “The Manor House at Nassau Plantation” presented at the Third Annual Lee Quinn Nesbitt Symposium on Texas History and Culture. 
  • March 16, 2002, “Nassau Plantation” Keynote speaker at the Texas German Heritage Convention in Shelby, TX. 
  • May 2000, “E.E. Townsend: Texas Ranger; Father of the Big Bend National Park.” First Annual Lee Quinn Nesbitt Symposium on Texas History and Culture. 
  • October 27, 1995, “Nassau Plantation, Promise and Reality” presented at the Oktober Gartenfest hosted by the University of Texas Winedale Historical Center.