We’ve all been transported into the past by a special book, place or person. On the History Author Show, host Dean Karayanis and a team of correspondents bring you the people who build the time machines.
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Thomas Hauser — My Mother and Me: A Memoir
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May 11, 2024 – What happens when a celebrated author — Muhammad Ali’s…
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Rob Hilliard — In Freedom’s Shadow
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April 1, 2024 – 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 Robert Hilliard, author of “In Free…
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S.C. Gwynne – His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine
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September 4, 2023 – 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 history? S.C. Gwynne brings us this…
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Jenni L. Walsh – The Call of the Wrens
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July 30, 2023 – What did service in the World Wars mean to women who found new opportunities to enter the workforce and join the fight as never before? We’ll go on a fictional ride with one of those service me…
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Jerry Izenberg — Baseball, Nazis & Nedick’s Hot Dogs: Growing up Jewish in the 1930s in Newark
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The New York Sun – ‘Baseball, Nazis & Nedick’s Hot Dogs’ Is a Story o…
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Lindsay Berra – “It Ain’t Over,” the Yogi Berra Movie
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The New York Sun – ‘It Ain’t Over’ Documents Yogi Berra’s Amazing American Life – Dean Karayanis May 11, 2023 – Who was the greatest Major League Baseball catcher of all time? If the name Lawrence Peter “Yogi”…
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Lindsay M. Chervinsky – Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture
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The New York Sun – ‘Mourning the Presidents’ Considers How the Republ…
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Stephen F. Knott – Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy
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Mike Purdy – Presidential Friendships: How They Changed History
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January 23, 2023 – How did the relationships of two pairs of U.S. presidents — Theodore Roosevelt with William Howard Taft and Franklin Delano Roosevelt with freshman Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson — change the course of history, and the world we live in today? In this episode, presidential historian Mike Purdy brings us Presidential Friendships…
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Natasha Lance Rogoff – Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
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The New York Sun - ‘Muppets in Moscow’ Recounts How Sesame Street Reached Red Square - Dean KarayanisDecember 19, 2022 - How did Kermit the Frog, Big Bird, and the rest of the Sesame Street expand their neighborhood to Moscow after the collapse of the USSR? In this episode, we meet the woman who adapted a beloved American TV show for an audience ne…
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Mike Guardia – Hal Moore: A Soldier Once…And Always
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November 21, 2022 - If you could ride along in a Humvee with one of the most admired American combat leaders of the last half century, what would you hope to learn?In this episode, our time machine welcomes back internationally acclaimed military historian and U.S. Army veteran Mike Guardia. We last caught up with Mike to discuss his book, Skybreak…
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The Legend of Lizzie Borden – History Author ShowTime Review (featuring Cara Robertson)
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October 24, 2022 - Something special this week for the season of pumpkins, ghosts, and Candy Corn: A YouTube feature on what Hollywood gets right and wrong about yesterday called History Author Showtime.It’s a video breakdown of the 1975 movie, “The Legend of Lizzie Borden,” starring Elizabeth Montgomery, who you may remember as Samantha Stevens fr…
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Judith F. Brenner – The Moments Between Dreams: A Novel
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October 10, 2022 - What if historical fiction could give someone the courage that saves their life? In this episode, Judith F. Brenner shares her debut novel The Moments Between Dreams, which has the power to do just that, as we mark Domestic Violence and Polio Awareness Months.The book has been described as "edutaining,' both educational and enter…
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David Pietrusza – Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal
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Featured in The New York Sun - Biden’s Tumble at Air Force Ceremony Stands Out in Long List of History’s Presidential Pratfalls - Dean KarayanisSeptember 26, 2022 - How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt win reelection with 46 of the 48 states in 1936, despite America being in the throes of the Great Depression? In this episode, legendary historian Davi…
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Anna J. Walner – Saltwater and Driftwood: A Historical Novel
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September 3, 2022 - On the morning of September 8th, 1900, disaster struck the vibrant, prosperous island of Galveston, Texas, tearing out its heart. In this episode, our time machine travels back to the turn of the last century to meet sixteen-year-old Clara and the Gladys family, against the backdrop of the worst natural disaster to ever strike t…
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Jeffrey Frank – The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of An Ordinary Man
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Featured in The New York Sun - After 77 Years, Hiroshima Bombing Stands Up to Second-Guessing - Dean KarayanisAugust 22, 2022 - What if you were a Midwestern haberdasher-turned-senator, who served just three months as vice president, before finding yourself thrust into the Big Chair, charged with winning World War II?In this episode, our time machi…
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Ray E. Boomhower – Richard Tregaskis: Reporting under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam
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August 8, 2022 - In the late summer of 1942, the First Marine Division sought to wrest Guadalcanal from the Japanese Empire. We’ll meet one of only two reporters on hand to record the carnage, as the spot in the Pacific earned its nickname, the Island of Death.In this episode, our time machine travels back war zones to meet in intrepid journalist w…
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Todd D. Snyder – Beatboxing: How Hip-Hop Changed the Fight Game
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July 25, 2022 - How did the worlds of hip-hop and boxing unite, blending together music, race, sports, and politics? In this episode our time machine welcomes back Dr. Todd D. Snyder who brings us Beatboxing: How Hip-Hop Changed the Fight Game. We previously caught up to discuss his previous book: Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype.Meeting Muhammad Al…
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S.W. O’Connell: The Patriot Spy – Book One of the Yankee Doodle Spy Series
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July 2, 2022 - Who were the citizen spies who risked their lives to bring General George Washington the intelligence he needed to win the War for Independence? In this episode, we take a fictional trip back to the American Revolution, to meet the people who fought for liberty with their wits and secrecy, not muskets and cannon.Our guide on this jou…
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James D. R. Philips — Two Revolutions and the Constitution: How the English and American Revolutions Produced the American Constitution
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June 27, 2022 - How did revolutions in the two great English-speaking nations -- the United States and the United Kingdom -- give birth to the American Constitution, and what does its creation have to tell us about the challenges we face over 200 years since its ratification?In this episode, we dig into those questions, traveling back to when it al…
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Yogi Berra Museum & Bob Feller Act of Valor Foundation – Sacrifice & Courage, A Tribute to D-Day
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June 13, 2022 - Before he won ten World Series titles with the New York Yankees, Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra answered a higher team’s calling, to serve his country in World War Two -- a role in the Navy that ultimately led him to a rocket ship supporting the Normandy landings.For June 6, 2022, the 78th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings, my col…
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Jeff Gottesfeld – Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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May 31, 2021 - The United States of America goes to great lengths to recover the remains of those who fall in battle, to offer a headstone, a finally resting place that loved ones can visit to honor their sacrifice. But what about those who fall and cannot be identified? In this episode, our time machine welcomes aboard readers ages 7 to 97, with a…
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Candice Millard – River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
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May 16, 2022 - Today, mapping the source of the Nile River is as easy as a Google search, but the mystery intrigued humanity for centuries. In this episode, best-selling author Candice Millard introduces us to the men who won a race worthy of Indiana Jones in River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile.…
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Sheila Myers – The Truth of Who You Are (a Novel)
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May 2, 2022 - Imagine you're struggling to feed your family during the Great Depression, and you cause a tragic accident at work. Do you risk your precious job at a time of sky-high unemployment and breadlines, or let someone else take the fall for what you did wrong? We'll meet a young man who faced that dilemma with award-winning novelist Sheila …
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