History Author Show

08/12/2024

Today's column in the New York Sun: “Why,” asked a journalist with the AP, Harold “Hal” Boyle, in 1951, “didn’t someone blow a bugle at Pearl Harbor 10 years ago and wake up America?” It turns out that someone did, but that reveille was ignored by their immediate superior, and America woke up in the middle of World War II.

11/05/2024

n the latest episode of the History Author Show, celebrated author Thomas Hauser, Muhammad Ali's official biographer and member of the Boxing Hall of Fame, shares the 96 years of his mother's life in "My Mother and Me."

Stream the interview at HistoryAuthor.com, listen on iHeartRadio, iTunes, etc., or watch the video on our YouTube channel. Plus, if you have an Echo Dot, you can just say, "Alexa, play the latest episode of the History Author Show," and she'll do the rest. https://historyauthor.com/thomas-hauser-my-mother-and-me-a-memoir/

01/04/2024

Robert Hilliard joins me on the History Author Show to discuss his Civil War novel, "In Freedom's Shadow." It's based on the true story of an enslaved man, John Scobell, who after escaping to freedom in the North, risked his life to return behind enemy lines to spy for the Union. Stream the interview at HistoryAuthor.com, listen on iHeartRadio, iTunes, etc., or watch the video via the YouTube image below. Plus, if you have an Echo Dot, you can just say, "Alexa, play the latest episode of the History Author Show," and she'll do the rest.
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Where would an enslaved man who escaped the South find the courage to return to the Confederacy as a Union Spy? In this episode, we meet such a man thanks to...

20/11/2023

On this day in 1959, the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show premiered.

12/10/2023

In the latest episode of the History Author Show, Canada's legendary comic Brent Butt joins us to share his debut novel. It's the dark, psychological thriller "Huge," so tightly written and powerful, it will keep you reading long into the night. Stream the interview at HistoryAuthor.com, listen on iHeartRadio, iTunes, etc., or watch the video on our YouTube channel using the applet below. https://youtu.be/j2m3p36ApWs

In this episode, our time machine welcomes aboard Brent Butt, who those of you in the Great White North know as the creator and star of the sitcom "Corner Ga...

04/09/2023

In the latest History Author Show interview, Pulitzer-Prize finalist S. C. Gwynne chats about his latest book, "His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine." Stream the interview at HistoryAuthor.com, listen on iHeartRadio, iTunes, etc., or watch the video on our YouTube channel via the applet below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOZDtTf70J8

How did airship R101 — embodying the British Empire’s global ambitions — die in fireball of dreams, romance, and hubris and turn to ashes in the pages of his...

01/08/2023

In the latest History Author Show interview, Jenni L. Walsh returns with her novel, “The Call of the Wrens," which explores what service in the World Wars mean to women who found new opportunities to enter the workforce and do their bit in the Women's Royal Naval Service.

Watch on our YouTube channel -- listen on iHeartRadio, iTunes, Android, etc. -- or stream it at HistoryAuthor.com. If you have an Amazon Echo Dot, you can also simply say, "Alexa, play the latest episode of the History Author Show," and she'll play it on the iHeartRadio app.

Jenni L. Walsh - The Call of the Wrens What did service in the World Wars mean to women who found new opportunities to enter the workforce and join the figh...

23/06/2023

My column in the New York Sun: The sporting event of the 20th Century, 1938. Thanks to sportswriting legend Jerry Izenberg, who knew both men, for his insights and help in dispelling the myths about the fight boiling down to N***s-vs-America. https://t.co/VkW28ltgHU

18/06/2023

In the latest History Author Show interview, an all-American story with 17-time Hall of Fame inductee, legendary Newark Star-Ledger columnist Jerry Izenberg, who learned to love the national pastime at his father's knee nearly a century ago in "Baseball, N***s & Nedick’s Hot Dogs: Growing up Jewish in the 1930s in Newark."

Reading about history is one thing, but what happens when a legendary sportswriter looks back nearly a century to recall his upbringing in Newark, New Jersey...

31/05/2023

In the New York Sun for Memorial Day, I remember the 26 Buffalo Soldiers who died answering Theodore Roosevelt’s came to charge in Spanish positions in Cuba, launching him and his distant cousin, Franklin, into the White House and ushering in the American Century. https://www.nysun.com/article/discover-the-fallen-heroes-in-your-family-tree-this-memorial-day

18/05/2023

In the New York Sun, my column on a 100-year old traditional Jewish deli, Schwartz’s. In Montreal. It’s worth the trip! https://www.nysun.com/article/oy-canada-as-traditional-jewish-delis-disappear-schwartzs-defies-time-at-montreal

11/05/2023