History Tavern Podcast
1) Jeffrey Boutwell - Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy
George Boutwell was a state legislator, the youngest Governor of Massachusetts, the first commissioner of the internal revenue, congressman, treasury secretary, and US senator. He was also a staunch a...Show More
2) Allen Packwood - Churchill's D-Day
Churchill Archives Centre Director Allen Packwood talks about his new book Churchill's D-Day: The British Bulldog's Fateful Hours During the Normandy Invasion. Countless historians and commentators ha...Show More
3) Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Matthew Christopher Hulbert dropped by the History Tavern to talk about his book Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War. John Newman Edwards was a popular newspaperm...Show More
4) Kylie A. Hulbert - The Untold War at Sea: America's Revolutionary Privateers
Kylie Hulbert dropped by the History Tavern to talk about her book The Untold War at Sea: America's Revolutionary Privateers. Lacking a functioning Navy, the Continental Congress turned to privateers ...Show More
Kylie A. Hulbert - The Untold War at Sea: America's Revolutionary Privateers
30:58 | Sep 24th, 2023
5) David N. Gellman - Liberty's Chain
David Gellman talked about his book Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York.
6) William Blair - The Record of Murders and Outrages
William Blair talked about his new book The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight Over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction where he examines the role the Freedmen's Bureau play...Show More
7) Kent Masterson Brown - Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command
Kent Masterson Brown talks about Meade's actions during the Gettysburg campaign and his abilities as an operational commander.
8) Amy Murrell Taylor: Embattled Freedom
Emancipation was an uncertain process and one that enslaved people had to pursue throughout the Civil War. Or as Embattled Freedom author Murrell Taylor writes, "Freedom had to searched for and found....Show More
9) Jeanne Abrams - A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
Dr. Jeanne Abrams talked about her book A View From Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe. John and Abigail's time in Europe helped define what it meant for them to be American. They...Show More
Jeanne Abrams - A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
35:28 | Jan 31st, 2021
10) Chris DeRose - The Fighting Bunch
In 1946, World War II vets took a stand against the corrupt political machine that ran their small Tennessee town for over a decade. In order to restore democracy, the vets had to take up arms against...Show More