Friday, April 30, 2021-Episode 368-The trials of Burr and Trump.  Does the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump recall Aaron Burr’s acquittal in an 1807 treason trial?  New York City correspondent Jim Kaplan tells the life Revolutionary War hero and Vice President Aaron Burr, a controversial figure in American history, remembered for killing Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

Friday, April 23, 2021-Episode 367-Our second Highlights Podcast of 2021 features Jim Richmond on Saratoga County history, Mike Hauser on Fulton County sports, Sarah Patten on women spies, Thruway questions from Robert Burns, John Warren on motorization of the Adirondack Park, Jim Kaplan on  New York City’s South Street Seaport and Roland Vinyard on West Virginia caver Pete Hauer.

Harold Schechter author of “Maniac: the Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer.”

Friday, April 9, 2021-Episode 365-Roland Vinyard tells the story of his book, “The Ballad of Pete Hauer: It Was Caves that Pete Loved The Best.”  A true story of two mysterious deaths in West Virginia’s cave country. Speleobooks https://tinyurl.com/PeterHauer

Youtube The Ballad of Pete Hauer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFGA_icGpqI

Friday, April 2, 2021-Episode 364-Jim Kaplan reports on the history of Manhattan’s South Street Seaport and a proposal to build a new high rise in that area.

Friday, March 26, 2021-Episode 363-How the Adirondack forest preserve was motorized.  The guest is John Warren, founder and editor of New York Almanack.

Friday, March 19, 2021-Episode 362-New York State Thruway commuter and Historians Podcast listener Robert Burns makes frequent trips between Rochester and Albany.  He has questions on the history of the Thruway, built in the 1950s.  We welcome your answers to his questions via email.  We get background on Thruway history from Bruce Dearstyne, author of the book “Spirit of New York.”

Friday, March 12, 2021-Episode 361-Sarah Patten, author of “The Measure of Gold,” a historical novel set in Europe in World War II with a focus on French Resistance women spies.

Friday, March 5, 2021-Episode 360-Mike Hauser, author and Leader Herald columnist, has stories about Jack McKeon, Parkhurst Field and Moonlight “Doc” Graham from Fulton County baseball history.

Friday, February 26, 2021-Episode 359-Keeping history alive during the pandemic with Jim Richmond from Saratoga County History Roundtable, plus the impact of Spencer and Katrina Trask on Saratoga Springs.

Friday, February 19, 2021-Episode 358-In our first Highlights Special of the year hear excerpts from 2021 podcasts including David Pietrusza on growing up in Amsterdam, public radio pioneer Will Lewis, Justice Robert Best on the historic Fulton County Courthouse, Darren Tracy on historic preservation, Jim Kaplan on New York City’s Wasserstein family, Jerry Snyder of Historic Amsterdam League and Oneida County historian Joseph Bottini on Oriskany’s Trinkaus Manor restaurant.

Friday, February 12, 2021-Episode 357-Lawyer and historian Jim Kaplan looks at the lives of financier Bruce Wasserstein and his sister, playwright Wendy Wasserstein, key figures in the revival of New York City in the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries.

Friday, February 5, 2021-Episode 356-Oneida County historian Joseph Bottini remembers Trinkaus Manor, a destination restaurant with an elaborate Christmas display in Oriskany, N.Y.

Friday, January 29, 2021- Episode 355-Jerry Snyder of Historic Amsterdam League recounts the story of the League’s popular “ghost tours” of Amsterdam’s Green Hill Cemetery.  He also discusses the history of the Amsterdam Fire Department.

Friday, January 22. 2021-Episode 354-Professional engineer Darren Tracy discusses historic preservation and describes a project he undertook restoring a “tiny house” in Glens Falls, New York.

Friday, January 15, 2021-Episode 353-Retired State Supreme Court Justice Robert Best chronicles the history of Johnstown’s 1772 Fulton County Courthouse, the oldest courthouse still in use in New York State.  Meredith Best, an art teacher and the judge’s daughter, describes the artwork in a booklet on the courthouse history written by her father which is scheduled for publication in February.

Friday, January 8, 2021-Episode 352-Presidential historian David Pietrusza on his memoir “Too Long Ago: A Childhood Memory, A Vanished World” about his Amsterdam, N.Y., roots.

Friday, January 1, 2021-Episode 351-Pioneer public radio broadcaster Will Lewis, president emeritus of the Los Angeles Press Club, discusses his early days in the 1960s at WBUR-FM in Boston, passage of the public broadcasting bill in Washington and the Patty Hearst kidnapping in California.

Friday, December 25, 2020-Episode 350-James Schaefer, Rotterdam town historian, discusses his hometown, his neighborhood along Schermerhorn Road and the town’s role in a New York hiking trail.

Friday, December 18, 2020-Historians Podcast Episode 349-Author John Gearing and editor Chris Leonard discuss their book “Schenectady Genesis, Volume II: The Creation of an American City from an Anglo-Dutch Town, ca. 1760-1800.”

Friday, December 11, 2020-Episode 348-Chris Carola, a veteran Associated Press reporter, is writing a book about Jack Wilpers, who grew up in Saratoga Springs, and the key role Wilpers played in the capture of former Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo in 1945.

Friday, December 4, 2020-Episode 347-Professor Robert May is author of “Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas and Southern Memory.”

Friday, November 27, 2020-Episode 346-Christopher Philippo is editor of “The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories Volume Four.”  Stories include The Green Huntsman and The Christmas Ghost.

Friday, November 20, 2020-Episode 345-Jim Kaplan chronicles the achievements of the first woman member of a Presidential cabinet.  Frances Perkins was FDR’s Secretary of Labor who designed Social Security.