What's your favorite history? Each interview on this podcast begins with this one question. Our guests are people who like history and get really excited about a particular time, place or person from our distant or not so distant past. The jumping off point is the place where our they became curious then entered the rabbit hole into discovery through scholarly research, pop culture, documentaries, other podcasts...We look at history through the filter of other peoples…
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Send us Fan Mail What happens when one forgotten diary, a trunk full of artifacts, and decades of research bring an erased woman’s story back into view? In this episode of Armchair Historians , I’m joined by writer, teacher, and my former multimedia writing mentor, Sonja Mongar , to talk about her powerful work on Cora Paul — a real woman whose life unfolded between Victorian expectations and…
Send us Fan Mail Armchair Historians Show Notes Marcus James — Queer History of London / Molly Houses Episode Summary In this episode of Armchair Historians, Anne Marie Cannon talks with Marcus James, founder of Queer London Tours, about the hidden and deeply human history of queer London. Their conversation focuses especially on the world of Molly Houses in Georgian London—clandestine spaces…
Send us Fan Mail Author Gigi Berardi joins Anne Marie Cannon to discuss Bianca’s Cure, a historical novel inspired by Bianca Capello, Renaissance Florence, women’s hidden knowledge, and the search for a cure for malaria. Together, they explore alchemy, medicine, power, and the ways women carved out influence in a world designed to constrain them. Learn more about Gigi Berardi:…
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Armchair Historians, Anne-Marie Cannon talks with award-winning historical fiction author Janis Robinson Daly about her inspiring #31titleswomeninhistory initiative, a Women’s History Month project that spotlights historical fiction by women authors centered on women whose stories deserve more room in the historical record. Janis shares how the project began as…
Send us Fan Mail Author Laurie Marr Wasmund returns to Armchair Historians to talk about her new historical novel Catching It Lovely , inspired by her great-great-grandmother Jane Morton Scott —a Scottish immigrant whose journey carried her from the textile towns of Scotland to Chicago, and finally to a homestead in Colorado Territory. We explore how Laurie blends archival research with historical…
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Armchair Historians , Anne-Marie Cannon sits down with Dr. Khama Ennis , emergency physician and creator of Faces of Medicine , a documentary and podcast that shares the powerful, candid stories of Black women physicians in the United States. The conversation begins with Dr. Ennis’s favorite history: Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler , the first Black woman to earn a…
Send us Fan Mail Black History Month Rewind: Buffalo Soldiers (Fighting on Two Fronts) — with Nick Brooks EPISODE SUMMARY In honor of Black History Month, we’re rewinding some of Armchair Historians’ strongest episodes that spotlight Black history, Black voices, and stories that deserve more room in the public memory. Today’s rewind revisits my conversation with Air Force veteran and Buffalo…
Send us Fan Mail In this episode Anne-Marie Cannon is joined by author Barbara Stark-Nemon , whose novels span centuries and borders. They dive into Barbara’s newest historical novel, Isabela’s Way , set in Inquisition-era Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany, and explore how history lives on through family memory, travel, and storytelling. Topics we cover Isabela’s Way and the history behind it…
Send us Fan Mail Puppy Chronicles and Early Germanic Tribes: A Heartwarming Historical Journey In this episode of Armchair Historians, host Anne-Marie Cannon introduces her new puppy, Rocco, and explores the early Germanic tribes through his eyes. Drawing parallels between Rocco's adaptation to his new home and historical tribal life, Anne-Marie delves into kinship, warrior bands, and cultural…
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Armchair Historians , host Anne Marie Cannon interviews historical fiction author Janis Robinson Daly , whose work unearths the forgotten stories of early women doctors and the generations who paved the way for them. Janis shares how genealogy research led her to discover that her great-great-grandfather was both an abolitionist lawyer and a founder of the…