History Author Show

Rob Hilliard — In Freedom’s Shadow

   April 1, 2024 – Where would an enslaved man who escaped the South find the courage to...

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• 18 días

Brent Butt – Huge: A Novel

 October 11, 2023 – In this episode, our time machine welcomes aboard Brent Butt, who...

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• 6 meses

S.C. Gwynne – His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine

   September 4, 2023 – How did airship R101 — embodying the British Empire’s global...

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• 7 meses

Jenni L. Walsh – The Call of the Wrens

   July 30, 2023 – What did service in the World Wars mean to women who found new...

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• 8 meses

Jerry Izenberg — Baseball, Nazis & Nedick’s Hot Dogs: Growing up Jewish in the 1930s in Newark

June 17, 2023 – Reading about history is one thing, but what happens when a legendary...

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• 10 meses

Lindsay Berra – “It Ain’t Over,” the Yogi Berra Movie

   May 11, 2023 – Who was the greatest Major League Baseball catcher of all time? If the...

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• 11 meses

Lindsay M. Chervinsky – Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture

   May 1, 2023 – When a president of the United States dies, what does how we...

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• 11 meses

Stephen F. Knott – Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy

   March 21, 2023 – How did a man who worked at the JFK Presidential Library grapple...

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• 1 año

Mike Purdy – Presidential Friendships: How They Changed History

    January 23, 2023 – How did the relationships of two pairs of U.S. presidents —...

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• 1 año

Natasha Lance Rogoff – Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia

   December 19, 2022 – How did Kermit the Frog, Big Bird, and the rest of the Sesame...

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• 1 año

Mike Guardia – Hal Moore: A Soldier Once…And Always

   November 21, 2022 – If you could ride along in a Humvee with one of the most admired...

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• 1 año

The Legend of Lizzie Borden – History Author ShowTime Review (featuring Cara Robertson)

  October 24, 2022 – Something special this week for the season of pumpkins, ghosts, and...

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• 1 año

Judith F. Brenner – The Moments Between Dreams: A Novel

  October 10, 2022 – What if historical fiction could give someone the courage that saves...

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• 1 año

David Pietrusza – Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal

   September 26, 2022 – How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt win reelection with 46 of the...

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• 1 año

Anna J. Walner – Saltwater and Driftwood: A Historical Novel

   September 3, 2022 – On the morning of September 8th, 1900, disaster struck the...

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• 1 año

Jeffrey Frank – The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of An Ordinary Man

   August 22, 2022 – What if you were a Midwestern haberdasher-turned-senator, who served...

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• 1 año

Ray E. Boomhower – Richard Tregaskis: Reporting under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam

   August 8, 2022 – In the late summer of 1942, the First Marine Division sought to wrest...

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• 1 año

Todd D. Snyder – Beatboxing: How Hip-Hop Changed the Fight Game

   July 25, 2022 – How did the worlds of hip-hop and boxing unite, blending together...

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• 1 año

S.W. O’Connell: The Patriot Spy – Book One of the Yankee Doodle Spy Series

   July 2, 2022 – Who were the citizen spies who risked their lives to bring General...

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• 1 año

James D. R. Philips — Two Revolutions and the Constitution: How the English and American Revolutions Produced the.

   June 27, 2022 – How did revolutions in the two great English-speaking nations — the...

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• 1 año