This week on The Historians Podcast, Jerry Snyder of Historic Amsterdam League has stories from a new booklet called Amsterdam’s Arts, focusing on visual artists, actors, singers and more with ties to Amsterdam, New York. [Read more…] about Amsterdam’s Arts: Visual Artists, Actors & Singers
Remembering New York City’s Evacuation Day
This week on The Historians Podcast, attorney and historian Jim Kaplan discusses the significance of Evacuation Day and how the day has been commemorated through the years. A print version of this story previously appeared in New York Almanack.
Evacuation Day was November 25th, 1783, the day British troops left New York City after the American Revolution. [Read more…] about Remembering New York City’s Evacuation Day
A Potpourri of Historians Podcasts
This week on The Historians Podcast, a highlights episode with excerpts from programs on the Lincoln assassination; reviving New York City’s Broadway theaters; an Adirondack lumber baron; a woman bandit from the Wild West; the disappearance of Judge Crater; and Transcendentalism in Concord Massachusetts in the 1800s. [Read more…] about A Potpourri of Historians Podcasts
The History of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s ‘The Secret Garden’
This week on The Historians Podcast, garden historian Marta McDowell, author of Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett (Timber Press, 2021), a deep look at the classic children’s book The Secret Garden (1911). [Read more…] about The History of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s ‘The Secret Garden’
Hard Times in the Mill: Songs of the Labor Movement
This week on The Historians Podcast, Upstate New York musicians Cosby Gibson and Tom Staudle have a new CD and concert featuring history songs about the labor union movement in America. [Read more…] about Hard Times in the Mill: Songs of the Labor Movement
Finding Missing Judge Joseph Crater (Historians Podcast)
This week on The Historians Podcast, Stephen Riegel discusses his book Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age NY (USRYC, 2021).
Judge Joseph Crater was a New York State Supreme Court Justice who disappeared in New York City in 1930. [Read more…] about Finding Missing Judge Joseph Crater (Historians Podcast)
The Transcendentalists and Their World (Podcast)
This week’s guest on Episode 400 of The Historians Podcast is Robert Gross, author of The Transcendentalists and Their World. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)
A professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, Gross looks at Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Concord, Massachusetts in the mid-1800s. [Read more…] about The Transcendentalists and Their World (Podcast)
Hellcat: The Notorious Woman Bandit Pearl Hart
This week on The Historians Podcast, Wild West historian John Boessenecker discusses his new book Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West’s Most Notorious Woman Bandit (Hanover Square Press, 2021). [Read more…] about Hellcat: The Notorious Woman Bandit Pearl Hart
Preserving the Home of an Adirondack Lumber Baron
This week on The Historians Podcast, Travis Proulx discusses preservation efforts at the Adirondack home of lumber baron Theodore Basselin in Croghan, New York. Proulx is a native of Croghan and is restoring the Basselin Mansion with the help of other family members. [Read more…] about Preserving the Home of an Adirondack Lumber Baron
White Supremacy and the Lincoln Assassination
This week on The Historians Podcast, longtime historian John Rhodehamel, author of America’s Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Assassination (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2021).
Rhodehamel argues that Booth’s primary motivation for his heinous crime was a growing commitment to white supremacy. In alternating chapters, Original Sin shows how, as Lincoln’s commitment to emancipation and racial equality grew, so too did Booth’s rage and hatred for Lincoln, whom he referred to as “King Abraham Africanus the First.” [Read more…] about White Supremacy and the Lincoln Assassination