David Pietrusza is a frequent guest on a wide variety of media–television, radio, and podcasts–including NPR, C-SPAN, MSNBC, The History Channel, The American Heroes Channel, the Fox News Channel, ESPN, and the MLB Network.
Here’s a mere sample of his video appearances:
Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal
Kennedy
Kennedy is an eight-part documentary series, airing on The History Channel, November 18-20, 2023, chronicling the story of John F. Kennedy. The series is narrated by Emmy Award-winner Peter Coyote and features 100 new interviews filmed across the country. The series explores Jack Kennedy in more detail than ever before in the documentary format in bringing JFK’s story to new generations.
Night One: Saturday, November 18 at 8/7c
- EPISODE 101: Jack (1917-1940)
- EPISODE 102: The World At War (1940-1946)
- EPISODE 103: Into the Political Jungle (1946-1956)
Night Two: Sunday, November 19 at 8/7c - EPISODE 104: The Kennedy Machine (1956-1960)
- EPISODE 105: The Torch Has Passed (January 1961 – December 1961)
- EPISODE 106: Crisis (January 1962 – October 1962)
Night Three: Monday, November 20 at 8/7c - EPISODE 107: The Brink of War (October 1962 – June 1963)
- EPISODE 108: A Legacy (June 1963 – November 1963)
David Pietrusza appears in each episode.
The Death of Queen Elizabeth
Discussing with Neil Cavuto the death of Queen Elizabeth II and how US Presidents deal with foreign state funerals particularly those in the United Kingdom.
Charles Hughes, Presidential Contender
First Lady Florence Harding
Too Long Ago: A Childhood Memory. A Vanished World.
Dean Karayanis interviews David Pietrusza on the History Author Show. They discuss David’s memoir, examining the places, people, and experiences that made him a great storyteller.
US Elections
Historian David Pietrusza discusses previous US elections on “Your Welcome” with Michael Malice.
1920: The Year of Six Presidents with David Pietrusza & Amity Shlaes
Coolidge Foundation chairman Amity Shlaes interviews David Pietrusza on his masterful book, “1920: The Year of Six Presidents.” They discuss the Harding-Coolidge campaign for “normalcy” and mark the 100th anniversary of the 1920 election that brought Calvin Coolidge to national office as vice president to Warren G. Harding.
1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon
David Pietrusza joined The Sixth Floor Museum Curator Stephen Fagin to discuss the 1960 election, the larger-than-life personalities at its center and the ways in which that important race helped shaped cross-country campaigning right up to the 2016 race for the White House.
1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR
David Pietrusza talked about his book 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR-Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny, in which he examines the events that marked presidential races in the United States and Germany in 1932. These races resulted in the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the U.S. and the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany.
Remarks at the Grave of President Chester Alan Arthur
TELEVISION
- ABC's Good Morning America
- MSNBC's Morning Joe Show
- C-SPAN (BookTV)'s After Words
- The History Channel's: The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents
- The No Spin News' Bill O'Reilly
- C-SPAN's American History TV
- C-SPAN's Washington Journal
- AMC's Making of the Mob: New York
- The Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck Program, Your World With Neil Cavuto, America's News HQ, The Big Story with John Gibson
- The History Channel's series The Big Build, providing commentary on its Chicago Speakeasy episode
- The American Heroes Channel's The Mafia's Greatest Hits
- Swedish TV's Agenda--live from Ground Zero on the 10th anniversary of 9-11.
- Newsmax TV's The Hard Line with Ed Berliner
- ESPN's Emmy-winning Sports Century series
- ESPN Classic's live July 2004 coverage of 1886-style baseball, America's Pastime: Vintage Baseball Live, providing color commentary alongside Ron Thulin and Bill "Spaceman" Lee.
- MLB Productions & ESPN Original Entertainment's joint-production: Utilityman: The Quest for Cooperstown with Randy and Jason Sklar (ESPN2)
- NPR's Talk of the Nation (discussing Cal Ripken Jr. and Arnold Rothstein)
- EBRU-TV (discussing 1960)
- The Tim McCarver Show
- This Week in Baseball
- ESPN's Outside the Lines (Gambling's Influence on Baseball's History)
- ESPN-2's Cold Pizza
- ESPN Classic's Classic Now
- The Fox Sports Channel's Baseball's Golden Age
- The Comcast Network's It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle
- The Comcast Network's Sports Talk
- RNN's award-winning documentary Our Town to Cooperstown
- The MLB Network's Triumph & Tragedy: The Rise and Fall of the 1919 White Sox
- Secrets of New York
- The "Real History" segment of The Blaze's Real News
- Fox News Channel discussing death of Queen Elizabeth
RADIO
- The Hugh Hewitt Show
- The Lars Larson Show
- The John Batchelor Show
- The Rusty Humphries Show
- Battle Line with Alan Nathan
- Bloomberg Radio's Simply Put
- National Public Radio's Only a Game (discussing banned baseball player Jimmy O'Connell and gambler Arnold Rothstein)
- NPR's Talk of the Nation (discussing Cal Ripken Jr. and Arnold Rothstein)
- SIRIUS XM Radio's Make It Plain with Mark Thompson
- SIRIUS XM Radio's Cam & Company
- ESPN-Radio's The V Show (with Bob Valvano)
- Money Matters with Gary Goldberg
- Ave Maria Radio's The Al Kresta Show
- The Vernuccio-Novak Report
- The Radio America Network's Talkin Baseball Show
- The Empire State Network
- The Radio One Network's As It Is
- Larry Grossman's You Can Bet On It
- The Law Show (nationally syndicated)
- The Book Show (nationally syndicated)
- Frank Morano (WABC-NYC)
- Leonard Lopate (WNYC & WBAI)
International radio:
- The Voice of America
- Radio-France
- Radio-France International
- The Fan-590 (Toronto, Canada)
Local Radio:
- 100+ local radio stations across America
PODCASTS
Click on each episode to view/hear.
Roifeld Brown’s “10 American Presidents Series”
With Glenn Beck
With Salena Zito
The John Batchelor Show
- Rothstein
- 1932: The Rise of Hitler & FDR (Part 1)
- 1932: The Rise of Hitler & FDR (Part 2)
- 1932: The Rise of Hitler & FDR (Part 3)
- TR's Last War (Part 1)
- TR's Last War (Part 2)
- TR's Last War (Part 3)
History Author Show with Dean Karayanis
- TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
- Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series
- 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
- 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR
- Too Long Ago: A Childhood Memory. A Vanished World.
- 'Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal'
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
World War I Centennial Commission
The John Rothmann Show (KGO-San Franciso)
The Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC-NYC)
The Book Show (NPR)
With Michael Malice
Stribling’s New York (WOR) (Rob Taub)
The Federalist
The Matt Lewis Show
- 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
- 1960: LBJ vs JFK vs Nixon
- TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
- The 1919 Black Sox Scandal
- On Christmas History
- Too Long Ago: A Childhood Memory. A Vanished World.
- Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal
Book Talk (Doug Miles Media)
“The Hard Question” – Blanquita Cullum
archive.org
The Historians (The New York History Blog)
The Wheels Keep Spinning Podcast
The Local Maximum
The Next Nationalism – James Strock