Cross-Examining History

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Kostya Kennedy on his new book The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America. Kostya is a New York Times bestselling author of fantastic books on baseball greats Pete Rose, Jackie Robinson, and Joe DiMaggio.

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Sandy Kress, writer, teacher, and philanthropist, and Pete Geren, President and CEO of the Sid W. Richardson foundation, on freedom and opportunity in education.

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Tevi Troy, author of 5 presidential history books, on his latest book The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry.

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player of all time, about Russia, Ukraine, and protecting democracy worldwide. Garry Kasparov founded of the cross-partisan Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017.

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Nigel Hamilton, a British-born American biographer, historian, and author, about his new book Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents.

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Edward F. O'Keefe on his new book The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President. O'Keefe is CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation.

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Lindsay Chervinsky, American presidential historian and author of Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic.

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Marc Selverstone on his new book The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam. Marc Selverstone is a Cold War historian and author of Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950. He is also the Director of presidential studies at the UVA Miller Center.

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Malcolm Gladwell on his new book Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers, and The Bomber Mafia.

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. Rosen is president and CEO of the National Constitution Center and hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University...

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Hampton Sides, author of non-fiction adventure stories set in war or depicting epic expeditions of discovery and exploration. His most recent book, The Wide Wide Sea, is an epic recount of the voyage of Captain James Cook, culminating in his death in Hawaii.

Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Brody Mullins, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author of The Wolves of K Street. Previously, Brody spent nearly two decades covering the intersection of business and politics for The Wall Street Journal.