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David Pietrusza

Friday, October 20, 2023-Episode 496-David Pietrusza with a guided tour of organized crime in the 1920s in New York City, Gangsterland.

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David Brooks

Friday, October 6, 2023-Episode 495-David Brooks with an insightful look at the 115th New York Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War. The regiment was composed of men from Montgomery, Fulton, Saratoga and Hamilton Counties. Commanded by Simeon Sammons the troops went to war from Fonda. Brooks is a member of the board of the Fulton County Historical Society.

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HighLights Edition 5

Episode 494-Highlights edition #5-Christopher Gorham with the story of FDR aide Anna Rosenberg; Gregg Ficery tracing the origin of the National Football League; Scott Shane chronicling the life of Thomas Smallwood, an African American who named the Underground Railroad and interviews from the 2015 Fort Plan Museum conference on the American Revolution.

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Scott Shane

Episode 493-Scott Shane, author of Flee North- A forgotten hero and the fight for freedom in slavery’s borderland. The book traces the life of Thomas Smallwood, an African American who named the Underground Railroad.

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Charles Yaple

Friday, September 15, 2023-Episode 492-Episode 493-Charles Yaple, Professor Emeritus at SUNY Cortland, has written Jacob’s Land, a history of his immigrant family in New York State in the 1700s. Yaple has also written The Tree of Us following men, from Richford, New York, including John D. Rockefeller, once the world’s richest man, and Gurdon Wallace Wattle, a friend to five U.S. presidents.

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Gregg Ficery

Episode 491-The origin story of American football. Gregg Ficery traces what became the NFL back to teams which played in Ohio and Pennsylvania in 1892. Ficery is author of Gridiron Legacy.

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Christopher C. Gorham

Episode 490-Christopher C. Gorham is author of Anna Rosenberg, The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America.

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HighLights Episode 4-2023

Friday, August 25, 2023 Episode 489-Highlights edition #4 with excerpts from podcasts including the year that defined the American West; pre-Hollywood filmmaking in New York State; female war correspondent Dickey Chapelle and more.

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Kiersten Marcil

Historians Episode#488 on the way to #500 this Fall. Kiersten Marcil, author of the American Revolution historical novel Witness to the Revolution.

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Christina Baker Kline

Friday, August 11, 2023-Episode 487-Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train from 2015. Plus the debut of The History Mystery

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Gazette Focus on History Stories

Friday, August 4, 2023- Episode 486-Bob Cudmore has Focus on History columns on soda bottlers, walking for sport, a submarine rescue, Amsterdam’s clock tower building and more.

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Larry Gooley

Friday, July 28, 2023 On the road to our 500th episode. Larry Gooley wrote the history of Adirondack serial killer Robert Garrow. Gooley was interviewed in March 2015 on Episode 49 of The Historians Podcast.

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Lorissa Rienhart

Friday, July 21, 2023-Episode 484-Lorissa Rinehart has written a biography of groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle titled First to the Front.

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Audrey Kupferberg

Friday, July 14, 2023-Episode 483-WAMC radio film commentator, historian and archivist Audrey Kupferberg discusses pre-Hollywood filmmaking in New York State and other topics.

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American Revolution Stories

Episode 482-American Revolution Stories. Eric Schnitzer and Nina Sankovitch, spoke at last month’s Revolutionary War conference sponsored by Fort Plain Museum. Schnitzer has written the text to artist Don Troiani’s Campaign to Saratoga 1777. Sankovich discusses how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families of Braintree, Massachusetts fanned the flames of America’s revolution.

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Chris Wimmer

Friday, June 30, 2023-Episode 481--Chris Wimmer is author of The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West

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HighLight Edition 3

HighLight Edition Three for the Year. 7 conversations all in one place(catch-up)

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Cosby and Tom/American Revolution

Friday, June 16, 2023 – Episode 479 – Cosby Gibson and Tom Staudle with songs of the American Revolution. Previously Cosby and Tom, who live in the Mohawk Valley have done musical programs with songs of the Erie Canal and other historical events.

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Scott Haefner/Old Fort Johnson

Friday, June 9, 2023 – Episode 478 Scott Haefner of Old Fort Johnson historic site explains how this formerly fortified home of British Indian agent Sir William Johnson was preserved by a grass roots organization, the Montgomery County Historical Society.

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Matthew Keagle

Friday, June 2, 2023-Episode 477- Curator Matthew Keagle discusses Fort Ticonderoga historic site this season. Visitors will experience 1760 at the fort and see how British soldiers and American provincials ensure military dominance on Lake Champlain and deep into the heart of French Canada.

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Paul Kix

Friday, May 26, 2023-Episode 476-Journalist Paul Kix documents how the 1963 desegregation campaign in Birmingham Alabama changed race relations in America. Martin Luther King, Jr., was imprisoned and wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Kix’s book is titled You Have to Be Prepared to Die before You Can Begin to Live.

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Phyllis Chapman

Friday, May 19, 2023-Episode 475-The Battle of Bennington preceded the 1777 Battle of Saratoga during the American Revolution. It was fought in the hamlet of Walloomsac in the Town of Hoosick New York on August 16 1777—about ten miles from Bennington, Vermont. Phyllis Chapman of Friends of the Bennington Battlefield describes the battle and its impact on the Battle of Saratoga.

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Jim Kaplan/New York City History

Friday, May 12, 2023-Episode 474-New York City correspondent Jim Kaplan reports on how Harlem was economically developed in the early 1900s. Jewish financiers joined with Black realtor Phillip Payton to improve race relations in New York City.

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Focus on History Stories

Friday, May 5, 2023-Episode 473-Bob Cudmore provides a Focus on History podcast with topics from his Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder columns including an eccentric philosopher, the Demskys of Eagle Street, Amsterdam mayor Burt Deal and boxing in 1930s Amsterdam.

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October 20, 2023

David Pietrusza

October 06, 2023

David Brooks

September 29, 2023

HighLights Edition 5

September 22, 2023

Scott Shane

September 15, 2023

Charles Yaple

September 08, 2023

Gregg Ficery

September 01, 2023

Christopher C. Gorham

August 25, 2023

HighLights Episode 4-2023

August 18, 2023

Kiersten Marcil

August 11, 2023

Christina Baker Kline

August 04, 2023

Gazette Focus on History Stories

July 28, 2023

Larry Gooley

July 21, 2023

Lorissa Rienhart

July 14, 2023

Audrey Kupferberg

July 07, 2023

American Revolution Stories

June 30, 2023

Chris Wimmer

June 23, 2023

HighLight Edition 3

June 16, 2023

Cosby and Tom/American Revolution

June 09, 2023

Scott Haefner/Old Fort Johnson

June 02, 2023

Matthew Keagle

May 26, 2023

Paul Kix

May 19, 2023

Phyllis Chapman

May 12, 2023

Jim Kaplan/New York City History

May 05, 2023

Focus on History Stories