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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

Rockland History: Confessions of a Hayseed DA

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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

Free People of Color in Early America

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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

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

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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

Early Auto Racing in New York

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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

Pearl Street in Albany: History & Contemporary Challenges

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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

Horrific Homicides & Long Island Judge Thomas Stark

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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

Afghanistan: Alexander the Great Was There (Historians Podcast)

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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)

North Country Prisons Talk On ‘Empire State Engagements’

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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’