This page contains links to various print, audio, and video interviews, profiles, and documentaries, as well as media coverage of my work.
August 2025: “2025 George Washington Book Prize Finalists,” C-SPAN, August 12.
April 2025: “Legacy of the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord,” C-SPAN2, April 11.
April 2025: Interview, Ben Franklin’s World, April 8.
November 2024: Interview, Extraordinary Times, November 21.
November 2024: Interview, Revolution250 (podcast), November 5.
August 2024: “‘The Memory of ’76’ Review: Reinventing the Revolution,” Wall Street Journal, August 21.
July 2024: Interview, Repeating History, WCNY radio.
May 2024: Interview, “Franklin Episode 7,” Historians at the Movies.
March 2024: Essay quoted, “Stamp Act Defiance Placard Sells for $4.5 Million,” Maine Antique Digest.
January 2024: Mentioned, “Stamp Act Placard, Champlain’s Voyages, Philip K. Dick in Pulps: Auction Preview,” Fine Books & Collections.
October 2023: Book quoted, “How Christopher Columbus Got His Day,” The Saturday Evening Post, October 9.
August 2023: Interview, “Ray with Michael Hattem,” Historians at the Movies.
August 2023: Quoted from interview, “Before Lady Liberty, There Was Lady Columbia, America’s First National Mascot,” Smithsonian Magazine.
May 2023: Quoted from interview, “Did George Washington Order Rebels to Burn New York City in 1776?” Smithsonian Magazine.
July 2022: Interview, “Interpretations of the Past: Historian Michael D. Hattem discusses historical memory, reckoning with the creation of “American history”, and his recent book,” Public Seminar, July 25.
May 2022: Quoted from interview, “Did British troops murder surrendered American soldiers at Groton Height during the Revolutionary War?” Connecticut Magazine.
January 2022: “History Scholars versus David McCullough: The American Revolution,” Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education, January 30.
November 2021: Quoted from interview, “New York Today,” The New York Times, November 25.
November 2021: Book featured and excerpted, “Read the Revolution,” Museum of the American Revolution (newsletter), November 24.
October 2021: Book quoted, “How Christopher Columbus Became an Italian-American Icon,” TIME, October 9.
September 2021: Host, “Prison Ship Martyr Monument,” Gotham Center Podcasts, Season 1, Episode 15.
July 2021: Interview, “Bonus: A History of American Revolution Histories,” Ben Franklin’s World (podcast), July 30.
July 2021: Interview, “Michael Hattem, Past and Prologue,” Ben Franklin’s World (podcast), July 20.
July 2021: Quoted from interview, “The Politics of Teaching America’s Past,” TIME, July 5-12 (online title: “Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America’s History”)
July 2021: Quoted from interview, “Birth Pangs: One Nation, Many Truths,” The New York Times, July 3. (online title: “The Battle for 1776”)
April 2021: Book review, “Past as Prologue,” Law & Liberty.
March 2021: Speaker, History Summit, virtual book festival.
February 2021: Interview, New Books on History, New Books Network.
February 2021: Interview, “10 Questions with Michael D. Hattem,” From the Desk.
February 2021: Interview, “Michael Hattem on the Long Tradition of Fashioning an American Past,” Podopticon.
February 2021: Interview, “120 Politics and Memory in the American Revolution with Michael D. Hattem,” The Age of Jackson Podcast.
February 2021: Book Review, Journal of the American Revolution.
January 2021: Quoted, “Historians in Historic Times,” Scholarly Kitchen.
January 2021: “Michael D. Hattem’s Past and Prologue,” The Page 99 Test.
January 2021: Book Review, “Teapots and Tempests,” American Purpose.
January 2021: “Pg. 99: Michael D. Hattem’s Past and Prologue,” Campaign for the American Reader.
October 2020: Quoted from interview, “Did America Have a ‘Good Relationship’ with Hitler? What Joe Biden Got Right and Wrong About That History During the Debate,” TIME Magazine.
October 2020: Quoted from interview, “Long before the controversy over Columbus Day, Noah Webster’s book taught children about the explorer who was the ‘discoverer of America’,” Hartford Courant, October 12.
September 2020: Op-Ed, “Revisionist History is an American Political Tradition,” “Made by History,” The Washington Post.
August 2020: Podcast Interview, “Reflecting on the Work and Legacy of Bernard Bailyn with Michael Hattem” (The Rogue Historian)
June 2020: Op-Ed, “Columbus never set foot here. Why do we remember him?” “Made by History,” The Washington Post.
May 2020: Timeline referenced in Kate Carté, “No Syllabus Required: Notes from a Teaching Experiment,” Process, May 5.
November 2019: Op-Ed, “What Attorney General Barr Gets Wrongs about the American Revolution,” “Made by History,” The Washington Post.
November 2018: Radio interview on abolition and Civil War history of Galesburg, IL (Radio-Canada).
July 2018: Interview, “Gordon S. Wood’s The Radicalism of the American Revolution [1991] with Michael D. Hattem,” Age of Jackson podcast.
April 2017: Quoted from interview, “From Personal to Professional: Collaborative History Blogs Go Mainstream,” Perspectives on History (AHA).
Spring 2017: “Alumni Now: Michael D. Hattem” (BMCC)
December 2015: “An Intern Saved a Museum by Finding This Revolutionary War Treasure in the Attic,” (Smithsonian Magazine)
April 2015: Podcast interview, “Benjamin Franklin and the Papers of Benjamin Franklin Editorial Project” (Ben Franklin’s World)
March 30, 2015: Podcast interview, “A Discussion on Early American History with The JuntoCast” (Ben Franklin’s World).
August 2014: Film interview, “American Revolution,” a three-part television documentary, airing December 2014. (Discovery Networks) (clip)
January 20, 2014: Film interview, “The Discovery of the ‘Address to the Inhabitants of Great Britain’,” documentary video (Keno Auctions/Big Chief Studio)
January 13, 2014: “Two CCNY History Students Identify Original Revolution Document” (CCNY)
January 2, 2014: “Letter Tied to Fight for Independence Is Found in Museum’s Attic” (The New York Times)
December 23-27, 2013: Interview, included in a series of “group interview” posts each one asking specialists a question about the American Revolution (Journal of the American Revolution)
December 5, 2013: “What We’re Reading: December 5, 2013” included my piece, “Roundtable: The Legacy of Pauline Maier” (American Historical Association)
September 30, 2013: “Stars Shine for BMCC” (BMCC)
August 12, 2013: Interview, “From GED to PHD with Michael Hattem,” podcast (Eat Sleep Write)
July 29, 2013: Interview, “Historians Seek a Delay in Posting Dissertations” (The New York Times) (reprint)
July 11, 2013: “What We’re Reading: July 11, 2013” included my piece, “American Revolution: The Game” (American Historical Association)
June 20, 2013: “What We’re Reading: June 20, 2013” included my piece, “Digital Workflow for Historians” (American Historical Association)
January 24, 2013: “What We’re Reading: January 24, 2013” included my piece, “Where Have You Gone, Gordon Wood?” (American Historical Association)
December 13, 2012: “What We’re Reading: December 13, 2012” included my piece, “Jeffersongate: The Case of Henry Wiencek” (American Historical Association)
May 27, 2012: Interview, “You Are Here,” radio program (WERS-FM, Boston)
May 5, 2012: Profile, “Cinderella Man,” Marks of Excellence (BMCC publication and website)
February 16, 2012: “What We’re Reading: February 16, 2012” included my Readex article (American Historical Association)
October 31, 2011: Profile, Michael Hattem: History of Colonial and Revolutionary America (CUNY BA)
June 3, 2011: Profile, Michael Hattem: Self-Taught Scholar (CUNY)
June 2, 2011: Pride of the City: CUNY Class of 2011 (CUNY)
May 25, 2011: Great Grads 2011 (CCNY)
May 2, 2011: CCNY History Majors Garner Top PhD Fellowships (CCNY)
December 15, 2010: CUNY Baccalaureate Student’s Paper To Be Published in Columbia Undergrad Journal (CUNY)
June 15, 2009: Michael Hattem: Intellectual History of the American Revolution (CUNY BA)
November 20, 2008: Creating Your Own Major (BMCC)
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