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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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Signup to Generate a PitchCross-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.
Cross-Examining History is hosted by Talmage Boston. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Cross-Examining History Episode 102 - Karl Rove" (28 October 2026, 73 minutes), "Cross-Examining History Episode 101 - Rye Barcott" (17 October 2026, 48 minutes), and "Cross-Examining History Episode 100 - Michael Cullinane" (15 September 2026, 54 minutes).
Cross-Examining History publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 56 minutes across 100 episodes.
Booking probability for Cross-Examining History is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Cross-Examining History requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Cross-Examining History's contact route on record: verified email.
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Talmage Boston hosts Cross-Examining History, an education podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Cross-Examining History
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Karl Rove - Wall Street Journal columnist, Fox News contributor, historian, and author of the book The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of...
Cross-Examining History
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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
Cross-Examining 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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
Cross-Examining History
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
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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
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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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
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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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
Cross-Examining History
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...
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Interim Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, University of Edinburgh
anchor and executive editor of Special Report with Bret Baier and chief political anchor, FOX News Channel
author of STOLEN (A Reverse Underground Railroad Odyssey), University of Maryland, College Park
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and National Constitution Center Semiquincentennial Scholar, Vanderbilt University
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