New in the Media
National book launch of Founders’ Fortunes at Politics and Prose bookstore on C-SPAN
“No Guns, No Glory: The Race to Arm America” on History.net
Book Q&A with Deborah Kalb ogspot.com/2022/03/q-with-willard-sterne-randall.html
“Speaking Out About History: Author Q&A with Willard Sterne Randall” on Sons of the American Revolution
Interview with Brian Lamb (Ep. 52, Willard Sterne Randall, The Founders’ Fortunes) on Booknotes+ podcast
Interview with Roger Williams on History Author Talks
“5 Founding Fathers Whose Finances Shaped the Revolution” on History.com
“The Founders’ Fortunes: Benjamin Franklin’s Early Rise”: Excerpt in Financial History
“Why France Really Helped America’s Founding Fathers Fight the Revolutionary War” on Salon
“How Wealthy Were the Founding Fathers?” in TIME
Leaders and Legends podcast with Robert Vane: “Historian Willard Sterne Randall on his book The Founders’ Fortunes”
Review in New York Journal of Books
“How Slavery Was Written Out of the Declaration of Independence” on LitHub
“What Lessons Can We Learn from Washington and Franklin About Money” The Stacking Benjamins Podcast
“How George Washington Defeated a Pandemic to Save the American Revolution” in Fortune
Financial History Magazine, March issue, excerpt from book, "Benjamin Franklin's Early Rise"
Leaders and Legends podcast with Robert Vane: “Willard Sterne Randall on the Founding Fathers”
"No Guns, No Glory," the cover story in the Winter, 2022 issue of MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History
Aaron Burr: Yes, He Killed Hamilton, But What Else Did He Do? on HowStuffWorks.com
"Burgoyne's Big Fail," Spring, 2020 issue of MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History (winner of the 2019 Thomas Fleming Award for Outstanding Military History Writing)
How the Articles of Confederation Paved the Way for the American Revolution on How Stuff Works
Interview on George Washington ("George Washington: A Life”) on iHeart Radio’s “Jay Talking”
Interview on Ethan Allen (“Green Mountain Boy”) on iHeart Radio’s “Jay Talking”
Milton Historical Society presents "The Allens of Vermont" with Willard Sterne Randall
Interview on the Bradley Jay Show on WBZ-AM Boston (syndicated by the iHeart Radio Network) on Hamilton and on Unshackling America
In the new book, The Presidents:Noted Historians Rank America’s Best—and Worst—Chief Executives, based on C-Span’s surveys ranking the Presidents, a chapter based on my 1993 book, Thomas Jefferson: A Life, the interview with Brian Lamb available at www.c-span.org/thepresidents.
"Seven Events that Enraged Colonists and Led to the American Revolution” on History.net
“Assault on the Citadel" Summer, 2019 issue of MHQ, The Quarterly Journal of Military History
Media coverage of Unshackling America
Review of Unshackling America, How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution, in Vermont History, Winter/Spring 2019
Review of Unshackling America in The Historian, volume 80, No. 2, Summer 2018
"Assault on the Citadel" --the Battle of St. Malo -- co-authored with Nancy Nahra--75th anniversary of D-Day issue of MHQ, The Quarterly Magazine of Military History, Summer 2019 issue, in stores May 1st.
“10 Engaging and Informative Books About American History” on wiki.ezvid.com
“Presidential Biographer Discusses Hit Hamilton Musical” in Mountain Times
“Before Benedict Arnold Became an Infamous Traitor, He Tried to Invade Canada” at History.com
“The Founding Fathers Feared Political Factions Would Tear the Nation Apart” at History.com
"Historian Sheds Light on Seminar Common Text 'Hamilton'" at Saint Michael's College
Discussion on The Age of Jackson Podcast: Episode 8: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution with Willard Sterne Randall
"Scholar Revisits the Battle of Lake Champlain" in Shelburne News March 2, 2018
"How the War of 1812 Ended the American Revolution" -Interview in the podcast In the Past Lane
Interview in C-SPAN's Small Cities series, discussing Burlington, VT and Unshackling America
Recording of Unshackling America talk at Ethan Allen Homestead on August 20th, 2017
"The War for Economic Independence" - review in The Wall Street Journal August 15, 2017
"From Colonial Times to Trump's America, Trade is the Issue" in The Philadelphia Inquirer
"America's Last King: The Unsettling Parallels between King George III and Donald Trump" in Salon
Discussion with the author on the "History Space: The War of 1812 Finally Brought Independence" in The Burlington Free Press
Short Take review in Seven Days
C-SPAN taping of book talk at Politics and Prose, July 15th
"Unshackling America and the War of 1812: Vermonter's New History Ties the Past to the Present" in The Brattleboro Reformer
Review in Road to Hubbardton
"Friday Morning Coffee" interview on Writer's Bone
Discussion of C-SPAN's 2017 Historians' Survey of Presidential Leadership on Channel 17
Sirus XM interview with Knowledge@Wharton
Review in the Oklahoman
Selected as one of Amazon's Books of the Month in History (July 2017)
Post on "The History Reader"
Review in Emerging Revolutionary War Era