Friday, August 20, 2021-Episode 384- Leader Herald columnist Peter Betz has documented how Johnstown celebrated the Fourth of July 200 years ago with cannon shots, a parade and celebration at a local hotel.  Revolutionary War veterans were still alive for these festivities.  Betz also has details on Johnstown native Enos Throop who served as governor of New York from 1829 to 1832.

Episode 383- Kimberly Hess discusses “A Lesser Mortal: The Unexpected Life of Sarah Cochran.”  Cochran lived in Pennsylvania and headed companies that processed coal and coke.  A distant ancestor of Hess, Cochran advocated for women’s suffrage and was a philanthropist.

Episode 382- Deirdre Sinnott is author of The Third Mrs. Galway, a historical novel on race relations in the 1830s focusing on Utica, New York.

Friday, July 30, 2021-Episode 381-Town historian Todd Langworthy has information on how Lily Dale in the Town of Pomfret in western New York became a center for spiritualism.  Pomfret also was the place where the Women’s Christian Temperance Union began and where the first farmers’ Grange was founded.

The third Highlights Episode of The Historians Podcast in 2021 has excerpts from a dozen shows that were aired this year.  Topics include the battle of Valcour, black separatist Marcus Garvey, Lady Bird Johnson, women’s suffrage, time travel, the history of deceit and more. 

Friday, July 16, 2021-Episode 379-An update on a previous program on the origins of the New York State Thruway from Tim Tielman of the Campaign for Greater Buffalo History, Architecture and Culture.

Friday, July 9, 2021-Episode 378-Ann Maria Bullock Schram of Amsterdam, was a volunteer nurse in the American Civil War.  Montgomery County NY historian Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar discusses her research on Schram’s life.

Episode 377-Aja Raden is author of The Truth About Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit, a history of con artistry and deception. 

Episode 376-New York City correspondent Jim Kaplan considers the impact of black separatist leader Marcus Garvey on African independence. 

Friday, June 18, 2021-Episode 375- Mark Sullivan discusses his historical novel, The Last Green Valley that chronicles how members of a German family living in Ukraine were able to escape clashing armies in World War II and find a new life in America.

Episode Episode 374-Linda Wisniewski is author of Where the Stork Flies, a time travel novel about a Pennsylvania librarian whose search for her best life pushes away her family until her 19th century ancestor and the medieval Polish Queen Jadwiga teach her the meaning of unconditional love. There are several scenes in Linda’s home town of Amsterdam, New York, as well as scenes in Poland in 1825.

Episode 373-Marguerite Kearns is author of Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights.

Episode 372-Julia Sweig is author of “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight” that draws on recorded diaries kept by Lady Bird when her husband Lyndon was President from 1963 through 1968.

Friday, May 21, 2021-Episode 371-Bevis Longstreth is author of Chains Across the River, a historical novel dealing with the great chains that American forces stretched across the Hudson River during the American Revolution to prevent the British fleet from sailing from New York City to Albany.

Friday, May 14, 2021-Episode 370-Hudson Valley historian A.J. Schenkman has stories from his book “Patriots and Spies in Revolutionary New York”--including a plot to kidnap General George Washington.

Friday, May 7, 2021-Episode 369-Jack Kelly is author of “Valcour: The 1776 Campaign (on Lake Champlain) That Saved the Cause of Liberty.”

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.