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Cross-Examining History is a podcast featuring interviews with the country’s leading historians conducted by nationally prominent interrogator Talmage Boston, author of Cross-Examining History: A Lawyer Gets Answers from the Experts About Our Presidents. He examines American history through the highly entertaining process of asking insightful questions that inspire his subjects to tell their best stories and provide their most important commentary about their best-selling books’ subjects.

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Cross-Examining History Episode 101 - Rye Barcott

2026/10/17

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Rye Barcott, an author, social entrepreneur, and former U.S. Marine Corps officer, on his new book Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future.

Cross-Examining History Episode 100 - Michael Cullinane

2026/09/15

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Michael Cullinane, historian, award-winning author, and Walton Chair of Theodore Roosevelt Studies at Dickinson State University, on his new book Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet.

Cross-Examining History Episode 99 - Peter Onuf and Frank Cogliano

2026/07/08

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Peter Onuf and Frank Cogliano on their newest book Thomas Jefferson Survives. They are leading Jeffersonian scholars and have written 15 books on Jefferson between them.

Cross-Examining History Episode 98 - Matthew Pinsker

2026/06/09

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Matthew Pinsker on his newest book Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln. Matthew is the author of Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home, and Brian Pohanka Chair of Civil War History at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Cross-Examining History Episode 97 - Mount Vernon President and CEO Doug Bradburn

2026/05/25

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Doug Bradburn, Director of George Washington's Mount Vernon, about America's first president and the beginnings of the country. Doug is an award-winning author and scholar of early American history.

Cross-Examining History Episode 96 - Bret Baier

2026/05/15

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Bret Baier, host of Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel and chief political anchor for Fox, on his newest book The Case for America: An Argument on Behalf of Our Nation.

Cross-Examining History Episode 95 - Richard Bell

2026/04/06

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of author Richard Bell on his newest book The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. Richard Bell teaches Early American history at the University of Maryland.

Cross-Examining History Episode 94 - Jon Meacham

2026/03/23

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Jon Meacham on his newest book American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology. Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times Bestselling author.

Cross-Examining History Episode 93 - Philip Taubman

2026/02/02

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of author Philip Taubman on his new book McNamara at War. Robert McNamara was the US secretary of defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson at the height of the Cold War.

Cross-Examining History Episode 92 - Richard Carwardine

2025/12/04

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Richard Carwardine, Welsh historian and former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on his newest book Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union.

Cross-Examining History Episode 91 - Peter Baker and Susan Glasser

2025/11/19

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of authors Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. Baker and Glasser are the bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington and the Divider.

Cross-Examining History Episode 90 - Bret Baier

2025/11/13

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Bret Baier, host of Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel and chief political anchor for Fox, on his newest book To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower.

Cross-Examining History Episode 89 - Bryan Burrough

2025/10/31

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Bryan Burrough, journalist and best-selling author of eight books, including Barbarians at the Gate and his newest release, The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild.

Cross-Examining History Episode 88 - Mark Updegrove

2025/09/29

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Mark Updegrove, an American author, historian, journalist, and Presidential Historian for ABC News, about his latest book Make Your Mark: Lessons in Character from Seven Presidents. Mark Updegrove is also the president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation in Austin, Texas, and served as the director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum for eight years.

Cross-Examining History Episode 87 - Phil Gramm

2025/07/03

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Phil Gramm on his new book The Triumph of Economic Freedom: Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism. Phil Gramm is a former US Senator of nearly two decades, an economist, and author.

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PB and J Cinci 2025/07/28

Episode 67 and others

I love,love, love the content, but can’t tolerate the poor audio, plates and forks clanging. Audio sounds taped from a distance where you pick up too ...

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