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New York State Podcasts

We publish several podcast announcements each week. You can find them all here.

If you produce a podcast about an aspect of New York State and want to have it noticed here, e-mail editor John Warren at nyalmanack@gmail.com

Marinus Willett to NY’s Birthday (Historians Podcast Highlights)

May 20, 2022 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on The Historians Podcast, a highlights podcast with excerpts from six episodes. Topics include:

Early American patriot Marinus Willett, a key figure in the Revolutonary War at Fort Stanwix and Fort Plain in the Mohawk Valley who, according to New York City correspondent Jim Kaplan, later became Mayor of New York City. [Read more…] about Marinus Willett to NY’s Birthday (Historians Podcast Highlights)

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History, Mohawk Valley, New York City Tagged With: AmRev, Books, Military History, Podcasts, Schenectady, World War One

Rockland History: Confessions of a Hayseed DA

May 20, 2022 by Clare Sheridan Leave a Comment

crossroads of rockland historyOn the May 2022 episode of Crossroads of Rockland History, Kathleen Meehan Do visited the program to discuss the new book she edited entitled Confessions of a Hayseed D.A. (Excelsior Editions, 2022) written by her father Robert R. Meehan.

In this page turner, former Rockland District Attorney Robert R. Meehan takes the reader through his journey from naive do-gooder to seasoned prosecutor, investigating and solving heinous crimes and surviving an attempt on his life that upended his family’s world. [Read more…] about Rockland History: Confessions of a Hayseed DA

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Books, Crime and Justice, Legal History, Podcasts, Rockland County

Free People of Color in Early America

May 18, 2022 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben franklins world podcast
In this episode of the Ben Franklin’s World Podcast, Warren Milteer Jr., an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the author of North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715-1885 ((LSU Press, 2020) and Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2021), joins Liz to explore the lives and experiences of free people of color, men and women who ranked somewhere in the middle or middle bottom of early American society. [Read more…] about Free People of Color in Early America

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Abolition, American Revolution, Black History, Cultural History, Immigration, Podcasts, Slavery, Social History, womens history

Stolen Dreams: Racism & Little League Baseball’s Civil War

May 13, 2022 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoIn July 1955, when the African American 11- and 12-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, it put the team on a collision course with segregation. White teams forfeited their games. [Read more…] about Stolen Dreams: Racism & Little League Baseball’s Civil War

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Black History, Podcasts, sports, Sports History

Early Auto Racing in New York

May 9, 2022 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

a new york minute in history podcastOn this episode of A New York Minute in History, Devin and Lauren discuss a recently installed William G. Pomeroy marker recognizing a 1900 auto race in Suffolk County, New York, and the importance of racing in automobile history.

Was that race to Babylon really the first of its kind in the United States? And how did Watkins Glen International get its start? [Read more…] about Early Auto Racing in New York

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Babylon, Long Island, Podcasts, Suffolk County, Transportation History, Watkins Glen

Spare Parts: Medical History from Skin Grafts to Artificial Hearts

May 6, 2022 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on The Historians Podcast, Paul Craddock at UCL Medical School in London, England discusses his new book Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery (St. Martin’s Press, 2022). [Read more…] about Spare Parts: Medical History from Skin Grafts to Artificial Hearts

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Medical History, Podcasts

Pearl Street in Albany: History & Contemporary Challenges

May 4, 2022 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

On this episode of Empire State Engagements, a conversation with Shayla Colon of the Albany Times Union on her series of articles “Two Sides of Pearl Street,” on how historical trends and urban policies have shaped contemporary life on one Albany thoroughfare. [Read more…] about Pearl Street in Albany: History & Contemporary Challenges

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Albany, Podcasts

Horrific Homicides & Long Island Judge Thomas Stark

April 29, 2022 by Chris Kretz Leave a Comment

long island history project logoThomas M. Stark served as a judge in Suffolk County and New York State beginning in the early 1960s.

During his career he presided over a number of important cases but the one that loomed largest was the murder of the DeFeo family at their home in Amityville by their son Ronald in 1974. Stark’s daughter Ellen remembers hearing about the case over dinner while the rest of the world remembers it as the Amityville Horror case. [Read more…] about Horrific Homicides & Long Island Judge Thomas Stark

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Crime and Justice, Legal History, Long Island, Podcasts, Suffolk County

Afghanistan: Alexander the Great Was There (Historians Podcast)

April 29, 2022 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on The Historians Podcast Edmund Richardson discusses his book The King’s Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria (St. Marten’s Press, 2022), the story of a 19th century British deserter who discovered the location of a city founded by Alexander the Great in Bagram, Afghanistan in the fourth century B.C. [Read more…] about Afghanistan: Alexander the Great Was There (Historians Podcast)

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Podcasts

North Country Prisons Talk On ‘Empire State Engagements’

April 24, 2022 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

A Prison In the Woods - Environment and Incarceration in New York's North CountyOn this episode of Empire State Engagements, Dr. Clarence Jefferson Hall, Jr., talks about his book A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country (UMass Press, 2020). [Read more…] about North Country Prisons Talk On ‘Empire State Engagements’

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, History Tagged With: Adirondacks, Crime and Justice, Olympic History, Podcasts, prisons

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