Friday, September 18-Episode 336-Schenectady City Historian Christopher Leonard discusses Schenectady during World War II plus a look at Schenectady and the Erie Canal.

Friday, September 11, 2020-Episode 335-David Brooks of Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site in Fort Hunter has Erie Canal lore to share.  He also tells of unrealized plans to make a canal out of the Sacandaga River.

Friday, September 4, 2020-Episode 334-Highlights from 2020 episodes of Historians Podcast-Caryl Hopson on “Murder and Mayhem in Herkimer County,” Peter Ward discusses the history of personal cleanliness, Kathryn Smith details the life of heiress and spy Gertrude Sanford Legendre, Matthew Costello on George Washington’s changing reputation and Christie Sausa looks at Lake Placid’s winter sports history.

Friday, August 28, 2020-Episode 333-Vanderbilt University professor Thomas Schwartz is author of the book “Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography.” Friday Podcast "29 Minutes"

Episode 332-Colbert Nepaulsingh discusses his book “Walter Elwood: ‘Glitter’ and Other Unpublished Plays.”  Amsterdam, N.Y.’s community museum is named for Elwood. Podcast "29 Minutes"

Friday, August 14, 2020-Episode 331-Joanne Blaauboer has been researching the old Presbyterian Church graveyard in the hamlet of Fish House on Great Sacandaga Lake.  Church deacon Abraham Beecher is buried there.  He was the cousin of famous author Harriet Beecher Stowe  Blaauboer is Town of Northampton Deputy historian. 

Friday, August 7, 2020-Episode 330-Margaret Weitekamp chairs the space history department at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.  She is author of “Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program.”

Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #19.  The Mayor talks about his current illness, the corona virus in Amsterdam and numerous city news topics.  This is the last episode of Extra Edition, a weekly interview with people in the news.  We will continue to produce weekly episodes of the Historians Podcast on topics relating to local, regional and national history.

Friday, July 31, 2020-Dan Weaver’s latest book contains 60 of his local history columns, most of which first appeared in the Amsterdam Recorder “Between the Cracks: Forgotten Stories of Amsterdam, N.Y. and the Mohawk Valley.”  Dan sells books and other historical items online at thebookhound.com. Friday Podcast "29 Minutes"

Thursday, July 30, 2020-Montgomery County Executive Matt Ossenfort is the guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #18. 

Friday, July 24, 2020-Episode 328-Amy Catania of Historic Saranac Lake explains how that upstate New York community became a center for the treatment of tuberculosis.

Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #17.  The Mayor talks about the corona virus and topics including a roundabout the state plans to start work on this September in the city of Amsterdam. 

Grant Cottage on Mount McGregor in northern Saratoga County is now open for the season.  For more information-https://www.grantcottage.org/  Episode 327-Tim Welch discusses Grant Cottage in northern Saratoga County where Ulysses S. Grant died after finishing his memoirs of the Civil War.

Thursday, July 16, 2020-Montgomery County Executive Matt Ossenfort is the guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #16. Ossenfort reports an increase in corona virus cases in the county.

Friday, July 10, 2020-Episode 326-A look at the history of the Albany County town of New Scotland with Alan Kowlowitz, president of the New Scotland Historical Association, and town historian Bob Parmenter.

Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #15.  The Mayor talks about the corona virus, the return of Amsterdam Mohawks baseball and city finances. 

Friday, July 3, 2020-Episode 325-Archaeologist and historian Wayne Lenig is author of “Fort Plain, Fort Plank, Fort Rensselaer: The Revolutionary War Forts of Canajohary.”

Wednesday, July 1, 2019--The guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #14 is Montgomery County Executive Matt Ossenfort.  Ossenfort has timely information on the COVID 19 virus outbreak among workers at a manufacturing plant in Fonda, a Buy Montgomery Campaign and more.

Friday, June 26, 2020-Episode 324- Janny Venema came to Albany, New York, from The Netherlands 35 years ago and went to work translating New Netherland colony early Dutch manuscripts with project director Charles Gehring.  She is retiring now and heading back to The Netherlands.  Venema is author of “Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652-1664” and a biography, “Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1586-1643): Designing a New World.”

Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #13.  The Mayor talks about the corona virus and city finances. 

Friday, June 19, 2020-Episode 323-Historian Wanda Burch tells stories from her book “The Home Voices Speak Louder than the Drums: Dreams and the Imagination in Civil War Letters and Memoirs.”

Controversy over Charging Bull and Fearless Girl, two Manhattan statues, is the topic on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #12.  Jim Kaplan is the guest. Thursday Podcast "20 Minutes"

Friday, June 12, 2020-Episode 322- Archaeologists Kathleen O’Neal Gear and her husband W. Michael Gear have written over 60 novels about prehistoric North America.  Their latest book, set in what is now Utah, is “People of the Canyons.”

Amsterdam Mayor Mike Cinquanti is Bob Cudmore’s guest on Historians Podcast Extra Edition #11.  The Mayor talks about the Black Lives Matter demonstration in Amsterdam, the re-opening of city hall, the corona virus pandemic and other issues.