History Author Show
351 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsWe’ve all been transported into the past by a special book, place or person. On the History Author Show, host Dean Karayanis and a team of correspondents bring you the people who build the time machines.
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CWW: The Ark of Deucalion
December 30, 2015 05:01 - 6 minutes - 6.38 MBDecember 30, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today, we are going to discuss creation myths. See if you can guess this man: after being warned about a deadly flood, he builds a mighty ark and escapes the ensuing deluge. If you guessed the biblical Noah, then you are only half wrong. Listen to today's show to learn about Deucalion, a man who might hav...
Stephen F. Knott – Washington and Hamilton
December 28, 2015 05:01 - 44 minutes - 41 MBDecember 28, 2015 - Today, we're joined by Stephen F. Knott, who along with co-author Tony Williams brings us Washington & Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America. George Washington and Alexander Hamilton's relationship has gotten renewed attention since the smash Broadway musical, ending almost 200 years of being overlooked. From the early days of the Revolutionary War on the hills of Rutgers University -- where Hamilton's artillery covered Washington's retreat from New York City -- to v...
Amanda Read – Why December 25th for Christmas?
December 25, 2015 05:01 - 7 minutes - 7.06 MBDecember 25, 2015 - Traditionally, December 25th has been celebrated as the birthday of Jesus Christ. But a variety of historic factors and scholarly discoveries indicate that He was not actually born on that date. Since this isn't really news, just how did most of the Christian world settle on this date for the big celebration? Amanda Read digs deep into the reason for the season in a special episode brought to you by Luke Historians. You can read more about how Christianity came to peg the...
CWW: The Battle of Arginusae
December 23, 2015 05:01 - 7 minutes - 6.5 MBDecember 23, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today, we are going to relive one of the most epic sea battles from the classical world. It was, at the time, the largest sea battle to every take place between ancient navies. It was the battle of Arginusae. Your guide through the classical landscape is Van Bryan, Associate Editor of Classical Wisdom We...
Barry Strauss – The Death of Caesar
December 21, 2015 05:01 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBDecember 21, 2015 - Today we sit down with Barry Strauss, professor of history and classics at Cornell University. A leading expert on ancient military history who counts Mel Brooks as his greatest living inspiration, he has written or edited several books, including The Battle of Salamis, The Trojan War, and The Spartacus War. Visit him @BarryStrauss on Twitter or at BarryStrauss.com.
H5F: Barry Strauss, Why Murder Caesar?
December 18, 2015 05:01 - 5 minutes - 5.24 MBDecember 18, 2015 – Today, author Barry Strauss explores the political, military, and social motivations behind history's most famous murder. Mr. Strauss is professor of history and classics at Cornell University, and a leading expert on ancient military history. Visit him @BarryStrauss on Twitter or at BarryStrauss.com. And don't miss our full interview on his book, The Death of Caesar, when we upload it on December 21, 2015. History in Five Friday. It’s the perfect way to kick off your mo...
CWW: Pythagoras and the Revolution of Mathematics
December 16, 2015 05:01 - 6 minutes - 6.04 MBDecember 16, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today we are visiting with a unique character from classical history. He was a philosopher, mathematician, he might have been a cult leader, he also is the man responsible for creating one of your favorite theorems that you learned in high school algebra. He is the very interesting Pythagoras. Your guide...
McGillin’s Olde Ale House, Chris Mullins, Sr.
December 14, 2015 05:01 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBDecember 14, 2015 - Ma and Pa McGillin opened the door to their home in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln won the presidency and just after the Liberty Bell cracked. As the decades passed, their tavern endured, tucked away in an alley, as if hiding from old Father Time. Originally called The Bell in Hand, McGillin's has survived wars, economic panics, challenges from upstart chain restaurants and Prohibition. Visit McGillins.com to do some serious time traveling with dozens of news articles, follo...
H5F: Dianne Hales – Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
December 11, 2015 05:01 - 6 minutes - 6.17 MBDecember 11, 2015 – It’s History in Five Friday, presented by Simon & Schuster — kicking off your modern weekend, with people from the past. Today, author Dianne Hales reveals the woman immortalized by the great master, Leonardo Da Vinci. Everybody remembers Mona Lisa's smile, and has seen her face, but no one knew her full story -- until now. You can find Dianne Hales on Twitter @DMHales, at Facebook.com/MonaLisaALifeDiscovered, or by visiting MonaLisaBook.com. History in Five Friday. It’...
CWW: Aspasia of Miletus
December 09, 2015 05:01 - 8 minutes - 8.03 MBDecember 9, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today we are discussing one of the most remarkable women to ever come out of the classical age. She had a knack for rhetoric, a taste for philosophy, and a keen interest in politics. She was Aspasia of Miletus. Your guide through the classical landscape is Van Bryan, Associate Editor of Classical Wisdom W...
Teresa K. Irish – A Thousand Letters Home
December 07, 2015 05:01 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBDecember 7, 2015 – On this Pearl Harbor Day, we mark the Japanese attack on Hawaii, and travel back 75 years to meet Aarol W. “Bud” Irish in the European Theater where he fought the Nazis. On the Memorial Day after Bud passed away in 2006, his daughter Teresa opened her father's mysterious old Army trunk and found stacks and stacks of letters from the front. Through these, she met her father as a young man, and shared him with us in: A Thousand Letters Home. Along with over 100 pictures, the...
CWW: The Worship of Guilt – The Furies and Justice
December 02, 2015 05:01 - 6 minutes - 6.32 MBDecember 2, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today we are talking about the bringers of guilt and fear. They were the bane of all criminals in the ancient world. If a man committed a terrible crime, he could expect to answer to the Furies. Your guide through the classical landscape is Van Bryan, Associate Editor of Classical Wisdom Weekly. You can c...
Betty Boyd Caroli – Lady Bird and Lyndon
November 30, 2015 05:01 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBNovember 30, 2015 - Historian of First Ladies Betty Boyd Caroli introduces us to the diminutive, quiet woman who stood behind one of the most controversial presidents of the 20th Century through some of America's most difficult years. The book is Lady Bird & Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage that Made a President. But Clauda "Lady Bird" Johnson was more than just the flower lady. She was a shrewd business woman, and careful political tactician. Using courtship letters made available for...
H5F: Betty Boyd Caroli – Lady Bird and Lyndon
November 27, 2015 05:01 - 4 minutes - 3.95 MBNovember 27, 2015 – It’s History in Five Friday, presented by Simon & Schuster. For the day after Thanksgiving, we're joined by historian of first ladies Betty Boyd Caroli, whose previous books include The Roosevelt Women: A Portrait In Five Generations, and The First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama. Today, she introduces us to a woman who was at the center of public life for half a century, and yet who few really knew. The book is Lady Bird & Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a ...
CWW: Seneca – Living a Good Life
November 25, 2015 05:01 - 7 minutes - 6.94 MBNovember 25, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today we are talking about some important topics. We will be visiting with Seneca and getting his take on a “good life”. This Roman statesman and philosopher believes that too many of us are wasting our lives and that very few of us are actually engaged in the duties of life. Your guide through the class...
The Old ’76 House, Robert Norden
November 23, 2015 05:01 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBNovember 23, 2015 - The Old '76 House in Tappan, New York, is a National Landmark, one where you can eat a meal fit for overthrowing a king. The building itself predates the American Revolution by over a century, and served an active role in the fight for independence. Every major figure including General George Washington spent time at this great American tavern. In 1780, it even served as a make-shift prison for Major John Andre, the British spy caught conspiring with America's most infamou...
H5F: Clint Hill – JFK Assassination
November 20, 2015 05:01 - 5 minutes - 5.05 MBNovember 20, 2015 – It’s History in Five Friday, presented by Simon & Schuster. Today, author Clint Hill shares his eyewitness account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination fifty-two years ago on November 22, 1963. Mr. Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to protect Mrs. Kennedy that day, and the man seen leaping onto the back of the car after the fatal shots rang out in Dealey Plaza. His latest book is titled, Five Days in November. It's a follow-up on his previous recollectio...
CWW: The Odyssey – Be Our Guest with Xenia
November 18, 2015 05:01 - 7 minutes - 6.58 MBNovember 18, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today we are talking about an important theme from The Odyssey. It is a theme that I’m certain you have never heard of. It’s called Xenia, and it has to do with rules of hospitality between hosts and guests. To the Homeric Greeks, Xenia was of the utmost importance. After all, you never knew when a disgui...
Kermit Roosevelt – Allegiance
November 16, 2015 05:01 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBNovember 16, 2015 - Today, we travel back 75 years to a dark period of the Second World War. But the battlefield where liberty and tyranny clash isn't Midway or Normandy Beach. It's the hallowed halls of the United States Supreme Court. Our guide into this world is Kermit Roosevelt. His novel is Allegiance, a legal thriller built around the internment of Americans with Japanese ancestry -- 62% of them American citizens -- under Franklin Roosevelt's infamous Executive Order 9066. Kermit Roose...
H5F: Walter Isaacson – The Innovators
November 13, 2015 05:05 - 7 minutes - 6.9 MBNovember 13, 2015 - Today we're going to hear from writer/journalist Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, and the acclaimed biography: Steve Jobs. The Innovators includes names like Grace Hopper, Lord Byron’s daughter, Bletchley Park's Alan Turing, ENIAC, John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, and many others that gave us the computer devices we find indispensab...
CWW: The Mystery of Plato’s Atlantis
November 11, 2015 05:01 - 7 minutes - 6.62 MBNovember 11, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today we are going to consider the legend of Atlantis. You read that right, dear listener, we are talking about THAT Atlantis. While it is often considered legend, there is one classical writer who tells us otherwise. Prepare to suspend your disbelief, because we are going to consider the possibility that...
Jacqueline Wadsworth – Letters from the Trenches
November 09, 2015 05:01 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBNovember 9, 2015 - In honor of Veterans Day and Remembrance Day on November 11th, Bristol writer Jacqueline Wadsworth takes us back to "the war to end all wars" in Letters from the Trenches: The First World War by Those Who Were There. We hear from soldiers on the Western Front, Mesopotamia, Gallipoli, Italy, Northern Russia -- and, of course, from the women and children suffering through the Great War back home. In addition to the book, you can visit SoldierLetters.Blogspot.com for tons of ...
CWW: Aristotle’s Poetics
November 04, 2015 05:01 - 7 minutes - 7.1 MBNovember 4, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today we are visiting with Aristotle, a man who is often considered to be the most influential philosopher to ever live. We are looking at Aristotle’s Poetics and we will talk about how the idea of a “good story” has remained essentially unchanged for over two thousand years! Then we will consider the noti...
Jennifer Kincheloe – The Secret Life of Anna Blanc
November 02, 2015 05:01 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBNovember 2, 2015 - For our first historical fiction author, we're pleased to introduce Jennifer Kincheloe's debut novel: The Secret Life of Anna Blanc. Join us in 1907 Los Angeles, where Anna Blanc chafes under the thumb of her controlling father and yearns for a life of crime -- solving them that is. Inspired by the wild Santa Anna winds, Anna joins a suffragette protest, lies to everyone in her life, and takes a job as an LAPD police matron -- under a not particularly convincing fake name....
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz – Dr. Mütter’s Marvels
October 29, 2015 05:41 - 44 minutes - 41 MBOctober 29, 2015 - In this special, Halloween episode, we're traveling back to the days before the American Civil War, when doctors would take their scalpels to fully awake patients -- the pre-microbial era when the causes of common diseases remained a mystery, and when oil lamps and flammable clothing combined to engulf a staggering number of people in flames. This, was the age of monsters. Yes, monsters. Not costumed Groovie Goolies, but human beings so scarred and broken, that they often ...
CWW: Thermopylae – Battle in the Shade
October 28, 2015 04:01 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBOctober 28, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today we are looking at the Battle of Thermopylae, an ancient military engagement that has been immortalized in popular, modern media like the film “300”. The battle took place in 480 BC. The Greeks, lead by King Leonidas and his 300 Spartan royal guard, stand fast at the pass of Thermopylae. They prepare t...
Jordan Harbour’s Twilight Histories
October 26, 2015 04:01 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBOctober 26, 2015 - What if John Wilkes Booth's gun had misfired? And what if we could blast off to a Mars colony founded by the Carthaginians, or head 250,000 years into the past when a race of giants dominate Africa? Writer and archaeologist Jordan Harbour, explores stories like these at the Twilight Histories podcast. And like a David Lynch film, things keep getting weirder. The Twilight Histories is a podcast, Jordan says, that should be listened to in the dark. So turn out the lights, lo...
H5F: Harold Holzer – Lincoln and the Press
October 23, 2015 04:01 - 6 minutes - 6.12 MBOctober 23, 2015 - Today we're going to hear from Harold Holzer, one of America's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln's life and the politics of the Civil War era. His book is, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion. Mr. Holzer shows us an activist Lincoln through journalists who covered him from his start through to the night of his assassination — when one reporter ran to the box where Lincoln was shot and emerged to write the story covered with blood. Remember t...
CWW: Prometheus
October 21, 2015 14:37 - 9 minutes - 8.93 MBOctober 21, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today we are looking at ancient mythology and the story of Prometheus, the creator of man and the original benefactor of mankind. Originally penned by the ancient poet, Hesiod, in about 700 BC, Prometheus is more than just a popular legend. He has become a symbol of human advancement and the sacrifices th...
David O. Stewart – Madison’s Gift
October 19, 2015 04:01 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBOctober 19, 2015 - On this episode, you'll meet five legends -- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe, and Dolley Madison -- as viewed through their relationships with James Madison. Often overlooked in death as he was in life (and having the White House burned out from under him in the War of 1812 didn't help), David O. Stewart reveals a founding father and president uniquely adept at what we today call "networking." The book is Madison's Gift: Five Partnersh...
H5F: The Political Genius of James Madison, David O. Stewart
October 16, 2015 04:01 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBOctober 16, 2015 – It’s History in Five Friday, presented by Simon & Schuster — kicking off your modern weekend, with people from the past. Today, historian David O. Stewart focuses on James Madison, Father of the Constitution and fourth president of the United States. Overlooked in death as he was in life, Madison was the indispensable man in peace as General George Washington was in the Revolutionary War. On Monday, October 19, 2015, we'll share an all-new interview with David O. Stewart o...
CWW: Plato’s Symposium – Always Change for Love
October 14, 2015 04:01 - 7 minutes - 6.91 MBOctober 14, 2015 - It’s Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly — bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. Today we visit with one of the greatest minds to ever be produced by the classical world-Plato. It's "Plato's Symposium: Always Change for Love." We will examine one of his more popular pieces of philosophy, The Symposium. Specifically, we are going to consider Plato’s assertion that we should, in fact, al...
Simon Read – Winston Churchill Reporting
October 12, 2015 04:01 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBOctober 12, 2015 - On this episode, we'll visit a key period in Winston Churchill's life, half a century before World War Two. In the late 1800s, Churchill chased adventure in the Sudan, South Africa, India and Cuba, filing dispatches that helped build his resume, and fill his empty wallet. Simon Read describes a Winston Churchill who's part Indiana Jones, part Ernie Pyle, and part Audie Murphy. It's hard to overstate just how important these years were to creating the Churchill who grew int...
H5F: David McCullough – The Wright Brothers
October 09, 2015 04:01 - 8 minutes - 7.34 MBOctober 9, 2015 – It’s History in Five Friday, presented by Simon & Schuster — kicking off your modern weekend, with people from the past. Today, we offer up legendary history author David McCullough on his latest #1 New York Times best-seller: The Wright Brothers. It's a tale that Mr. McCullough calls quintessentially American in its power to inspire, and to set an example for us in 2015. Orville and Wilbur Wright -- along with their impressive sister Katharine -- showed the world that man ...
CWW: Kleos – Death & Glory
October 07, 2015 05:18 - 9 minutes - 8.86 MBOctober 7, 2015 - It's Classical Wisdom Wednesday, presented by Classical Wisdom Weekly -- bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds, every Wednesday morning before your first cup of coffee. This week, we dive into the book that kicked it all off -- the first true classic in the history of Western literature -- Homer's The Iliad. Along the way, we examine the epic's leading man, Achilles, and his pursuit of kleos (eternal glory). What does it mean to be a hero? The answer might just surprise y...
Jonathan Sandys – God and Churchill
October 06, 2015 04:01 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBOctober 6, 2015 - How did Winston Churchill overcome so many personal, financial and professional setbacks to lead the United Kingdom to victory during its darkest hour, when the Empire nation stood alone against Hitler? The answer may surprise you, and that's the focus of a new book. It's God & Churchill: How the Great Leader's Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours. More than a spiritual biography, God & Churchill recounts a deeply personal quest for Jo...
James Shapiro – The Year of Lear
October 05, 2015 04:01 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBOctober 5, 2015 - On this episode, we visit the theaters, throne rooms and taverns of London 400 years ago, as seen through the eyes of William Shakespeare. History Author Show correspondent Stephen Bedford met our guide to Jacobian London in the shadow of the immortal bard's statue in Central Park. He is renowned Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, professor of English of Columbia University. His book is The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. That was a particularly chaotic year in England w...
Charles Leerhsen – Ty Cobb
September 28, 2015 04:00 - 45.2 MBSeptember 28, 2015 - Even casual baseball fans can name the game's greatest heroes, and its most infamous villain: Ty Cobb. Yes, it's something that even Yankees and Red Sox fans can agree on: "The Georgia Peach" wasn't a very nice fellow. But what if everyone is wrong? What if, like Ulysses S. Grant, Ty Cobb's enemies were just more prolific writers than his friends? What if by accepting the view of Ty Cobb as a belligerent racist and dirty player, we're smearing baseball's all-time great, a...
H5F: Ty Cobb – Charles Leerhsen
September 25, 2015 04:05 - 5 minutes - 4.6 MBSeptember 25, 2015 – It's History in Five Friday, presented by Simon & Schuster -- kicking off your modern weekend, with people from the past. Today, we offer up Charles Leerhsen's incredible book: Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty. It exposes the cruel smear of baseball's most exciting player, debunking the caricature of him as a dimwitted, belligerent, drunken racist. You can enjoy our full interview on or after Monday, September 28, 2015. For more, follow our H5F author on Twitter @CharlesLee...
Gerald Posner – God’s Bankers
September 24, 2015 05:59 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBSeptember 24, 2015 - This is a special, Pope-in-America edition of the History Author Show. Pope Francis began his visit to the United States on September 22, 2015 with stops in Washington, D.C., New York City and Philadelphia. Top on his agenda were calls for Americans to spend more on the poor. But what about the church's finances? How did a humble ministry started by St. Paul two thousand years ago, grow into the largest and wealthiest on earth? Attorney, best-selling author, and award-wi...
Van Bryan – Classical Wisdom Weekly
September 21, 2015 04:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBSeptember 21, 2015 - Join us in Manhattan's Madison Square Park -- next to the statue of President Chester A. Arthur -- as we travel back to the days when Latin was very much a living language. Our tour guide is Van Bryan, associate editor of Classical Wisdom Weekly: "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Minds." It's an online publishing house that shares information, commentaries, and opinions on literature of antiquity with iPad-enabled readers like us. You can also follow them @ClassicalWisdom on Tw...
H5F: Ike and Dick – Jeffrey Frank
September 18, 2015 04:41 - 6 minutes - 6.21 MBSeptember 18, 2015 - One of the most acclaimed political biographies of our time, Jeffrey Frank’s Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage takes you inside the strained and complex relationship of two fascinating American leaders—hailed as "top-drawer as political history" by the New York Review of Books and "one of the best books ever written about Richard Nixon" by the New Yorker."
Michael Hiltzik – Big Science
September 14, 2015 04:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBSeptember 14, 2015 - From Thomas Edison to Dr. Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters, the idea of the quirky, driven scientist working in solitude is a popular one in the American imagination. But today, you need big machines like particle accelerators, electron microscopes, and super computers to advance human knowledge. So how did we get from Alexander Graham Bell in his lonely lab to Robert Oppenheimer assembling and leading a massive team to beat Hitler to the atom bomb, or the U.S. racing the S...
H5F: Michael Hiltzik – Big Science
September 11, 2015 21:10 - 3 minutes - 3.16 MBSeptember 11, 2015 - End your week with a taste of the past. It's History in Five Friday! Here's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik, author of Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex. You can enjoy our full interview on or after Monday, September 14, 2015. You can follow him on Twitter @HiltzikM or visit his website, MichaelHiltzik.com. And enjoy more of Simon & Schuster's History in Five shorts at Facebook.com/HistoryI...
Dan DeMiglio from Callahan’s Hot Dogs
September 07, 2015 04:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBSeptember 7, 2015 - This journey into the past is our tastiest yet. Our guest is Dan DeMiglio, heir to a legendary Callahan's hot dog shop, a landmark in Fort Lee, New Jersey, just across the George Washington Bridge. Our goal is to do more than books here on the program, to remind people that we're all the author of our own chapter in the great human story, so Callahan's -- which closed in 2006 after fifty years serving the "so big, so good" best --seemed like a natural. In 1950, Leonard "A...
Jim Leeke – Matty Boy
August 31, 2015 04:01 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBAugust 31, 2015 - In our last episode of August, we introduce you to our first History Author Show correspondent: Amanda Read. Amanda Read grew up across the States and overseas as an Army brat before her family settled on Fair Hill Farms in Alabama. She graduated from Troy University Magna Cum Laude in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in History and a minor in Political Science. She's done voice-over work on previous shows, performing dramatic readings from war diaries and the letters of Firs...
Jane Singer – Lincoln’s Secret Spy
August 24, 2015 04:01 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBAugust 24, 2015 - "What is worse? A confederate con man claiming he was Lincoln's spy throughout the Civil War, or the Union veteran who pursed his claim all the way to the Supreme Court?" That's the central question of Jane Singer's book, Lincoln's Secret Spy: The Civil War Case that Changed the Future of Espionage. In it, she introduces us to William Alvin Lloyd. Con man, bigamist, charlatan, Lloyd hobbled out of the defeated Confederacy and into the capital of the newly re-United States wi...
Donald L. Miller – Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
August 17, 2015 04:20 - 42 minutes - 39 MBAugust 17, 2015 - You're familiar with our theme song, 1925's New York Ain't New York Anymore. It's the perfect segue into today's book, Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America. The story of speakeasies, Flappers and radio is brought to us by Donald L. Miller. He's the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College and also authored City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. You can learn about these and his other projects at...
Donald L. Miller – Supreme City
August 17, 2015 04:20 - 42 minutes - 39 MBAugust 17, 2015 - You're familiar with our theme song, 1925's New York Ain't New York Anymore. It's the perfect segue into today's book, Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America. The story of speakeasies, Flappers and radio is brought to us by Donald L. Miller. He's the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College and also authored City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. You can learn about these and his other projects at...
Rinker Buck – The Oregon Trail
August 10, 2015 03:48 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBAugust 10, 2015 - Three mules, two brothers, and a Jack Russell terrier. Together they rattle 2000 miles from Missouri to the great American Northwest in a covered wagon. That isn't the setup for a Vaudeville joke, but there are plenty of laughs found on the ruts, roads and interstates. That's right, interstates. The trip doesn't take place before the Civil War, but in our time. We can go along for the ride from the comfort of our reading chairs thanks to author Rinker Buck's New York Times ...