David Claire Jennings Part 2-- David Claire Jennings on The Historians with Bob Cudmore today Sunday August 2, 2015. David Claire Jennings is author of the historical novel After Bondage and War. www.davidclairejennings.com The novel tells of people impacted by slavery through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Jennings returned to college at age 70 to study history. www.amazon.com/After-Bondage-War…nal/dp/0692466584 The Historians with Bob Cudmore is produced at Eastline Studio. More information e-mail greene@nycap.rr.com

Jessica Parr on The Historians with Bob Cudmore. Jessica Parr is author of “Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon.” (Mississippi, 2015) Whitefield is regarded as a founding father of American Christian evangelicalism in the 1700s. Benjamin Franklin was impressed that Whitefield had a speaking voice that could be heard for ten city blocks. The Historians is produced at Eastline Studio. More information e-mail greene@nycap.rr.com

Sheila Myers is the author of the novel, “Imaginary Brightness: A Durant Family Saga.” The story is based on the family who marketed Adirondack great camps as vacation homes for wealthy American industrialists. Available on Amazon.http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00K2YTA0A Thanks to Sheila Myers for her donation to The Historians Podcast Go Fund Me Drive. The Historians is produced at Eastline Studio. More information e-mail greene@nycap.rr.com

Steven Engelhart of Adirondack Architectural Heritage is the guest on The Historians Podcast with Bob Cudmore. Steven has fascinating comments on Adirondack structures--bridges, fire towers, great camps and even prisons.The Historians is produced at Eastline Studio. More information e-mail greene@nycap.rr.com

Bernard Cornwell is the author of “Waterloo:The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles.” (Harper, 2015) The author of best-selling historical novels, “Waterloo” is Cornwell’s first work of non-fiction. The Historians with Bob Cudmore is produced at Eastline Studio. More information e-mail greene@nycap.rr.com

Historian, Ken Davis, is the author of “The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah.” (Hachette, 2015) Davis is author of the Don’t Know Much About series of history books, with more than 4 million copies in print worldwide. Podcast produced at Eastline Studio. More information e-mail greene@nycap.rr.com

Performer and teaching artist Dave Ruch from Buffalo is Bob Cudmore's guest on The Historians Podcast.Hear Dave Ruch on The Historians Podcast on Bob Cudmore dot com and on Soundcloud, search Eastline Studio. The Historians also airs twice each week on RISE, WMHT’s radio service for the blind and print disabled.Podcast produced at Eastline Studio. More information e-mail greene@nycap.rr.com

Tom Calarco is an authority on the history of the Underground Railroad in which slaves sought to escape from captivity in the United States to Canada. Calarco and Don Papson are co authors of “Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City: Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and The Record of Fugitives.” Podcast produced at Eastline Studio. More information e-mail greene@nycap.rr.com

This week The Historians Podcast with Bob Cudmore welcomes Daily Gazette features writer Bill Buell as the guest. Bill Buell is the author of history books on Schenectady and Albany; he is working on a book on Schenectady’s Socialist Mayor, George Lunn. A native of Glenville and resident of Schenectady's Stockade section, Bill is a 1971 Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake graduate and a 2001 University at Albany graduate, with a degree in history. He started working with the Gazette as a sports writer in 1977. As a features writer he currently covers diverse topics including history, religion and the theater. The Historians Podcast is available on www.bobcudmore.com/thehistorians and on www.soundcloud.com , search for Eastline Studio. The Historians Podcast is aired every Monday at 11:30 a.m. and Wednesday at 11 a.m. on RISE, WMHT’s radio service for the blind and print disabled in the Albany area.The Historians is produced at Eastline Studio. More information e-mail davegreeneproductions@gmail.com

Bruce Dearstyne is a history professor and former director of the state archives. He is author of “The Spirit of New York: Defining Events in the Empire State’s History." Sunday May 3

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On The Historians Podcast Victoria Tokarowski of the National Racing Museum in Saratoga Springs describes it's new exhibit on the horse breeding Sanford family of Amsterdam. Sam Hildebrandt, son of Sanford jockey Lou Hildebrandt, has more on efforts by the Friends of the Sanford Stud Farm to restore remaining buildings at the historic farm.

Bob Cudmore was the guest on Dan Weaver’s Valley Vox on 1490 AM WCSS in Amsterdam, online at http://www.wcss1490.com/

"The Historians" podcast features author and Albany Times Union Reporter Paul Grondahl. Grondahl has an update on his biography-in-progress on CBS news commentator Andy Rooney. Plus Grondahl discusses the career of long time Albany promoter Ed Lewi. Grondahl collaborated with Lewi on the book “A Wild Ride: Bears, Babes and Marketing to the Max.” Grondahl has also written books on longtime Albany Mayor Erastus Corning and Theodore Roosevelt. The Historians podcast can be downloaded at www.bobcudmore.com/thehistorians and at www.soundcloud.com , search for Eastline. And The Historians podcast is heard every Wednesday at 11 a.m. on RISE, WMHT’s radio service for the blind and print disabled in the Albany area.

Ann Peconie of the Walter Elwood Museum of the Mohawk Valley talks about the lives of women factory workers years ago in Amsterdam’s carpet making industry. Ann also discusses the elephant’s foot and other objects at the museum, donated by the family of big game hunter Robert Frothingham.

David Brooks has excerpts from an 1869 journal written by a Fort Hunter man. David is education coordinator at Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site in Fort Hunter.

Lawrence Gooley, author of "Terror in the Adirondacks," the story of serial killer Robert Garrow

Norm Bollen of Fort Plain Museum on the new Mohawk Country Heritage Association. The association promotes eight American Revolution-era historic sites in western Montgomery County.

Maria Riccio Bryce tells of her musical Hearts of Fire that tells the story of the burning of Schenectady by the French and Indians in 1690. She has re-issued the CD of the original cast recording.

Author Richard Norton Smith discusses “On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller” (Random House, 2014). Rockefeller was New York governor for 14 years and U.S. vice president for 3 years.

The author of the novel Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline discusses the program that transported thousands of destitute children from New York and other Eastern cities to foster homes located mainly in rural areas of the Midwest. Kline’s novel is the 2015 book selection of Amsterdam Reads, based at Amsterdam Free Library.

On this episode Jeff Wilkin of Daily Gazette on newspaper coverage of local history, Dan Weaver of Historic Amsterdam League and a few minutes from the final broadcast of Bob Cudmore's WVTL radio show on 11-14-14.

Julia Blackwelder, history professor, Schenectady County native and author of “Electric City: General Electric in Schenectady”

Former Assemblyman and historian Jack McEneny of Albany on politics, the Pine Hills, the Qauackenbush House and more