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Media
Stay updated with my podcasts and other public appearances.
Ongoing/Upcoming/In production
- BBC’s “Lucy Worsley investigates”, April 2026. (historical consultant for a 2-part documentary on the American Revolution)
- Sky History/The History Channel: Thomas Jefferson ‘Documentary’, July 2025.
- BBC Radio 4: “You’re Dead to Me” – American War of Independence: Fourth of July Special, with Greg Jenner and Patton Oswalt, July 2025
- Co-host: The Whiskey Rebellion Podcast, January 2017-on going
- April 2025: Cosmos Club/Washington DC, “Why the Founders matter” with Lindsay Chervinsky.
- June 2024: White House Historical Association, Live Stream (FB and YouTube)
- May 20, 2024: American Philosophical Society/Lunch at the Library: “A Revolutionary Friendship”.
- February 2024: A Revolutionary Friendship – A Book Discussion with Frank Cogliano, Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf.
- March 2024: A Revolutionary Friendship: Author Lecture with Francis D. Cogliano · George Washington’s Mount Vernon/Live and Live streamed
- March 2024: Hamilton vs. Jefferson, on stage at the Miller Centre/UVA with Joanne Freeman.
- January 2023: History vs. Thomas Jefferson. TED-Ed education.
BBC Radio: In Our Time
In Our Time is a live BBC radio discussion series exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific and philosophical topics, presented by Melvyn Bragg/Mischa Glenny, since 15 October 1998. It is one of BBC Radio 4’s most successful discussion programmes. It attracts a weekly audience exceeding two million listeners.
Appearances on In Our Time:
- April 2026 (Forthcoming)
- October 12, 2023: The Federalist Papers, In Our Time, BBC Radio 4.
- April 22, 2021: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778, In Our Time. BBC Radio 4.
- June 28, 2018: The Mexican-American War, In Our Time, BBC Radio 4.
- April 2, 2015: The California Gold Rush, In Our Time, BBC Radio 4.
- January 31, 2013: The War of 1812, In Our Time, BBC Radio 4
Miscellaneous (BBC/Radio/TV)
- On-going appearances on BBC Radio Scotland, as a commentator on US affairs.
- 2000 & 2024: Regular appearances on BBC Radio Scotland and Good Morning Scotland, to discuss the 2020 & 2024 US elections and aftermath.
- February 24, April 6, and May 18, 2016: Interviewed about the US presidential election on the BBC World Service.
- February 20, 2020: George Washington Letter Praised Scots Farmers, BBC Scotland (radio and website).
- January 7, 2016: Eisenhower and the Queen’s Drop Scones, The One Show, BBC TV.
- October 24, 2014: Islam and the United States, Backstory, NPR Radio.