David Pietrusza is the guest on The Historians with Bob Cudmore discussing his latest book: “1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny.”

Episode 146-Bob Cudmore discuss bowling and pinsetting in upstate New York during the twentieth century.*** The 2017 fund drive is now underway to support The Historians Podcast! Your donation at https://www.gofundme.com/historians2017 helps cover technical costs and other production expenses. Here’s how to donate by mail. Make the check out to Bob Cudmore. Send the check to Bob Cudmore, 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302.*Additional audio and information about The EastlineStudio Podcasts including The Bob Cudmore Podcasts, can be found "hear." Click the link: https://soundcloud.com/obudmore

Talk of The Town. Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Magic590WROW. Also on 100.5FM

Episode 145-Jerry Snyder talks about the many mansions built in the industrial heyday in Amsterdam, N.Y., the subject of this year’s Amsterdam Icons Calendar, produced by Historic Amsterdam League.*** Looking for Mohawk Valley News. Links to The Recorder, Leader-Herald and Mohawk Valley Compass. http://recordernews.com*** http://leaderherald.com*** http://mohawkvalleycompass.com To order a signed copy of one of Bob Cudmore’s books-Lost Mohawk Valley, Hidden History and Stories from the Mohawk Valley-please send a check for $25 made out to Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, N.Y. 12302. The mail order price includes postage, handling and sales tax if applicable. http://bobcudmore.com/lost-mohawk-valley.asp 

Bob’s books are also sold at Liberty Fresh Market, 4867 State Highway 30 in Amsterdam; The Bookhound, 16 East Main St., Amsterdam; Mysteries on Main, 144 West Main St. in Johnstown; Open Door Bookstore, 128 Jay St. in Schenectady; Barnes & Noble at Colonie Center and on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Bob+Cudmore *Additional audio and information about The EastlineStudio Podcasts including The Bob Cudmore Podcasts, can be found "hear." Click the link: https://soundcloud.com/obudmore

From the Archives-Episode 111- Dr. David Wittner is director of the Utica College Center for Historical Research where they digitize historic documents, sponsor frequent public talks and encourage contributions to their history blog. Their students research subjects such as the Ku Klux Klan in New York, the movement for transgender rights and the history of Bosnian women in Utica. The 2017 fund drive is now underway to support The Historians Podcast! Your donation at https://www.gofundme.com/historians2017 helps cover technical costs and other production expenses. Here’s how to donate by mail. Make the check out to Bob Cudmore. Send the check to Bob Cudmore, 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302.

Episode 140-History and social media--@ExploringBySign on Instagram that’s spreading the word about New York State historic markers; the Web site Exploring Upstate; the question game Narratopia, a way to gather oral history. The speakers held forth at a meeting of the Mohawk Valley Museum Consortium. All the Bob Cudmore Podcasts are available on Soundcloud/EastlineStudio and WMHT Public Radio in Albany and ITunes. https://soundcloud.com/obudmore http://www.wmht.org/radio/rise/historians/

From the Archives-Episode 95, January 24, 2016-Jewelry designer and historian Aja Raden with an account of how jewels have affected the course of history. Raden is author of “Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession and How Desire Shapes the World.” ***Additional audio and information about The EastlineStudio Podcasts including The Bob Cudmore Podcasts, can be found "hear." Click the link: https://soundcloud.com/obudmore

Episode 144-Michael Cinquanti has stories about the Titanic, a priest who wrote best sellers, a federal official in the Civil War who pioneered in hiring women to work in government and many more tales from “A Year’s Worth of Amsterdam N.Y. Birthdays: Second edition.” (Genium, 2016) https://amsterdamnybirthdays.com/

From the Archives-Episode 130, September 23, 2016-Tara Hime Norman has worked five years on her book “The Vindication of Lewis M. Roach. which makes the case that a Montgomery County trial convicted the wrong man in a sensational 1913 murder. *Additional audio and information about The EastlineStudio Podcasts including The Bob Cudmore Podcasts, can be found "hear." Click the link: https://soundcloud.com/obudmore

Episode 143-Gloversville Leader Herald history columnist Peter Betz with stories about animals making history, an attempted bombing of a Fulton County deputy sheriff’s car and a nostalgic look back at the introduction of television in the 1940s and 1950s.

From the Archives-Episode 51, March 12, 2015, Leader Herald history columnist Peter Betz with Fulton County stories from the Civil War and the former Sacandaga Park in the Adirondacks. *Additional audio and information about The EastlineStudio Podcasts including The Bob Cudmore Podcasts, can be found "hear." Click the link: https://soundcloud.com/obudmore

Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Magic590 WROW. Also on 100.5FM

Episode 142-Peter Ames Carlin, author of “Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon.” (Henry Holt, 2016)

From the Archives-Episode 49, March 2, 2015 Larry Gooley, author of "Terror in the Adirondacks," the story of serial killer Robert Garrow.

Episode 141-Bob Cudmore and Bob’s newspaper column readers look at the local history of “duck and cover”: Civil Defense in the atomic age. All the Bob Cudmore Podcasts are available on BobCudmore.com, Soundcloud/EastlineStudio, WMHT Public Radio in Albany and ITunes.

Bob Cudmore and Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Magic590WROW. Also on 100.5FM

Dan Weaver and Bob Cudmore talk about Kirk Douglas on WCSS 1490AM Amsterdam. http://wcss1490.com/ Kirk Douglas is an American actor, producer, director, and author. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he had his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers with Barbara Stanwyck.

From the Archives-Episode 80, October 4, 2015-Mary Zawacki, Michael Maloney and Kaitlin Morton-Bentley give an overview of the Schenectady County Historical Society at their two facilities: the Mabee Farm Historic Site in Rotterdam Junction and the Grems-Doolittle Library and Schenectady History Museum in the historic Stockade district of Schenectady.

Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Magic590WROW. Also on 100.5FM

From the Archives-Episode 56, April 12, 2015-Times Union reporter and historian Paul Grondahl on CBS commentator Andy Rooney and Albany public relations man Ed Lewi.http://www.timesunion.com/ All the Bob Cudmore Podcasts are available on BobCudmore.com, Soundcloud/EastlineStudio, WMHT Public Radio in Albany and ITunes.

Episode 139-T. Martin Bennett, author of “Wounded Tiger” (Onstad Press, 2016): The true story of the pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, whose life was transformed by an American prisoner and by a girl he never met. Also on ITunes

From the Archives-Episode 113, May 27, 2016-Bob Cudmore discuss veterans’ housing projects built in Amsterdam and other New York cities after World War II. Bob also tells stories of two local connections to the 1912 sinking of the Titanic.

Episode 138-Bob Cudmore interviews authors who attended the recent Chronicle Book Fair in Glens Falls. Topics include the Grant cottage in Wilton, the Battle of Lake George, a murder in the town of Palatine and the life of a woman who was an icon of the women’s suffrage movement.Also on ITunes

Bob Cudmore interviews Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan on Magic590WROW. Also on100.5FM