Podcast Episodes featuring Russell Shorto

Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Russell Shorto

Q&A - December 02, 2018 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 245 ratings
Historians Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Russell Shorto talk about what it means to be an American.

Revolution | Interview with Author Russell Shorto | 7

American History Tellers - August 08, 2018 07:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratings
We've come to the end of our series on the American Revolution, but we can't say goodbye without saying hello to Russell Shorto. Russell adapted his book, Revolution Song, for this series on American History Tellers. If you were wondering why we chose these six people, what freedom mea...

Russell Shorto | Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom

Free Library Podcast - February 02, 2018 10:40 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Watch the video here. Russell Shorto is the author of the bestselling The Island at the Center of World, ''a masterpiece of storytelling and first-rate intellectual history'' (Wall Street Journal) of the forgotten and mythologized Dutch colony of Manhattan. His other books include Descartes' Bo...

Russell Shorto, “Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom” (Norton, 2017)

New Books Network - January 13, 2018 21:08 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Russell Shorto‘s Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom (Norton, 2017) is a history of many revolutions, kaleidoscopic turns through six individual lives. There is Cornplanter, a leader of the Seneca Indians; George Germain, who led the British war strategy during the Revolution; Margaret M...