Radio station WGY is celebrating its 100^th year on February 20, 2022.  Bob Cudmore, who hosted a WGY talk show from 1980 to 1993, has audio featuring pioneer WGY air personalities Kolin Hager, Martha Brooks, Howard Tupper, Elle Pankin and Earl Pudney.  Current WGY news anchor Mike Patrick describes podcasts Patrick has done with many WGY veterans.

Friday, January 28, 2022-Episode 407-New York State historian Devin Lander discusses plans to observe the 250^th anniversary of the American Revolution.

Friday, January 21, 2022-Episode 406-Bob Cudmore and Dave Greene discuss polo player and carpet executive Laddie Sanford, a 1940 Northville fire and a newspaper contest from the early 1900s.

Episode 405-Jerry Snyder of  Historic Amsterdam League has stories from a new booklet on Amsterdam’s arts, focusing on visual artists, actors, singers and more with ties to Amsterdam, New York. 

Friday, January 7, 2022-Episode 404-Evacuation Day was November 25, 1783, the day the British left New York City finally ending the American Revolution.  Attorney and historian Jim Kaplan discusses the significance of Evacuation Day and how the day has been commemorated through the years.

Friday, December 31, 2021-Episode 403-2021 Highlights Episode #5-The Lincoln assassination; reviving New York City’s Broadway theaters; an Adirondack lumber baron; a woman bandit from the Wild West; whatever happened to Judge Crater and Trancendentalism in Concord Massachusetts in the 1800s.

Friday, December 24, 2021-Episode 402-Marta McDowell on Unearthing the Secret Garden, a look at Frances Hodgson Burnett’s class.ic children’s book.

Friday, December 17, 2021-Episode 401-Musicians Cosby Gibson and Tom Staudle have a new CD and concert featuring history songs about the labor union movement in America.

Episode 400-Robert Gross, author of The Transcendentalists and Their World-Emerson, Thoreau and Concord, Massachusetts in the 1800s. 

Episode 399 Stephen Riegel is author of Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age NY.

Friday, November 26, 2021-Episode 398- John Boessenecker, author of Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit.

Episode 397-New York City correspondent Jim Kaplan explains the role played by Democratic Party district leader Jimmy McManus in reviving the Broadway theater industry and the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in Manhattan.

Friday, November 12, 2021-Episode 396-Travis Proulx discusses preservation efforts at the Adirondack home of lumber baron Theodore Basselin in Croghan, New York.

Episode 395-John Rhodehamel is author of America’s Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Assassination. 

Friday, October 29, 2021- Episode 394-Highlights Episode-Jim Kaplan on Rich Rescorla’s heroism in the 2001 World Trade Center attack, Bob Cudmore has stories from his history columns in the Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder, Joyce Stah on the history of WMHT’s audio service for the blind, Katie Turner Getty on Britain’s use of prison ships in the American Revolution, Dana Cudmore on the history of caving in Schoharie and Albany counties.

Friday, October 22, 2021-Episode 393-David Brooks of Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site in Fort Hunter, N.Y., explains how Erie Canal boats were able to cross the fast-flowing Schoharie Creek.

Dana Cudmore is the author of Underground Empires: Two Centuries of Exploration, Adventure and Enterprise in New York’s Cave Country.  Cudmore focuses on caves of Schoharie and Albany counties, including the Howe Caverns tourist attraction. 

Episode 391-Tessa Bridal, a native of Uruguay, tells the stories of people who disappeared during South American political turmoil in the 1970s in her book The Dark Side of Memory. 

Friday, October 1, 2021- Episode 390-A highlights edition with five podcast excerpts-Spiritualism in Lilydale; the Freethought Trail; race relations in Utica, NY; Pennsylvania industrialist Sarah Cochran; the Fourth of July 200 years ago in Johnstown, NY.

Friday, September 24, 2021-Episode 389-Bob Cudmore has stories from his Daily Gazette Focus on History columns including Amsterdam’s horse racing track, the life of a volunteer nurse in the Civil War and Amsterdam radio announcers who served in Armed Forces Radio.

Friday, September 17, 2021- Episode 388-Katie Turner Getty discusses the prison ships that England used to hold prisoners of war during the American Revolution.  Turner Getty, a Boston lawyer and independent historian, spoke this summer on this topic at a conference sponsored by the Fort Plain NY Museum. She writes articles that appear in the Journal of the American Revolution.

Joyce Stah, on the history of RISE, WMHT's radio information service for the blind and print disabled in New York's Capital Region and Hudson Valley. RISE volunteers read articles from newspapers, periodicals and books to audiences who would otherwise be unable to access such information.  RISE carries each episode of The Historians Podcast. 

Jim Kaplan with the story of Richard Rescorla, security director of Morgan Stanley, who saved the lives of 2700 people at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001

Friday, August 27, 2021-Episode 385- Tom Flynn of the Center for Inquiry tells about Central New York’s Freethought Trail, including the Dresden, N.Y. birthplace of the 19^th century’s best known agnostic speaker, Robert Green Ingersoll.  More information on the Trail is here: https://freethought-trail.org  The Center for Inquiry reported Tom Flynn’s death on August 23.  He was 66.  His interview for Historians Podcast took place July 7.