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Podcast: The Mohawk Valley History Conference

May 15, 2015 by Bob Cudmore 1 Comment

The Historians LogoThis week “The Historians” podcast features coverage of the American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley Conference held May 1-3. The half hour episode features interviews with conference participants Jim Kirby Martin, co-author of Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution (Hill and Wang, 2006); Jack Kelly, author of Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence (Macmillan, 2014); and Don Hagist, author of The Revolution’s Last Men: The Soldiers Behind the Photographs (Westholme Publishing, 2015).

Also heard on the podcast are conference attendees Kyle Jenks, producer of the Drums Along the Mohawk Outdoor Drama, retired Montgomery County Historian Jacqueline Murphy, John Warren of The New York History Blog, and conference organizer Brian Mack of Fort Plain Museum. The conference included a full day of history talks held at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie and a bus tour of Revolutionary era historic sites in western Montgomery County. More than 100 people attended. Listen at “The Historians” online archive at http://www.bobcudmore.com/thehistorians/

“The Historians” podcast is also heard each Monday at 11:30 a.m. and Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. on RISE, WMHT’s 24-hour radio information service for the blind and print disabled in New York’s Capital Region and Hudson Valley. “The Historians” podcast is recorded at Dave Greene’s East Line Studio.

You can support this podcast by making a contribution to “The Historians” GoFundMe page: http://www.gofundme.com/TheHistorians

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Filed Under: Events, History, Mohawk Valley Tagged With: Academia, American Revolution, Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, Conferences, Fort Plain Museum, Military History, Mohawk River, Montgomery County, Podcasts

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    June 15, 2015 at 3:01 PM

    […] Interviews with Jim Kirby Martin, Don Hagist, Brian Mack and other conference participants can be heard online on a recent Historians Podcast. […]

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