The Ripple Effect of History: Leonidas Polk and the Episcopal Church (with Cheryl White)

Louisiana historian Dr. Cheryl White joins the podcast in this episode to discuss the 19th-century Episcopal missionary bishop Leonidas Polk and the Episcopal Church during the Civil War. We also scratch the surface of some of Dr. White's other research interests (the shroud of Turin and the Yellow Fever epidemics of Louisiana).

Dr. Cheryl White is a Professor of History at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Her research interests include local/regional history, Christian Church history, Tudor England, Late Medieval Europe, and Folklore. She is the author or co-author of several books including Historic Haunts of Shreveport, Wicked Shreveport, A Haunting Past: Essays on Folklore of Louisiana Antebellum Plantations, and Confederate General Leonidas Polk: Louisiana’s Fighting Bishop published in 2013 (which we discuss as Polk is the main topic of today’s conversation). If you are interested in further reading of this book, copies can be purchased at this linked: https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781609497378
 
Episode shownotes:

*The book on the shroud that Andrew mentions is The Shroud: Fresh Light on the 2000-Year-Old Mystery by Ian Wilson (Bantam Books, 2010). It is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003D87PS6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

*The book mentioned that is by Bishop Charles McIlvaine that is his rebuttal of the Oxford Movement from his evangelical perspective is Oxford Divinity Compared with that of  the Romish and Anglican Churches. A full digitized copy be accessed (for free) at this link: https://archive.org/details/a591301900mciluoft/mode/2up

*The upcoming book we mentioned from Dr. White that she co-authors with Ryan Smith and Fr. Peter Mangum on the Roman Catholic priests who lost their lives in the Yellow Fever epidemic in Shreveport is titled The Surest Path to Heaven: Shreveport Martyrs of 1873.