Interviews
atch my podcast with B'nai B'rith CEO Dan Mariaschin on our Winter 2024 issue of B'nai B'rith Magazine with a cover story on Brighton Beach - Then and Now, a picture essay on "Little Odessa" in 1979 and today. We also write about an Irish Catholic Yiddish rock star, My Heritage--an Israeli startup with global reach, an Israeli/Canadian endurance cyclist, a history of Jewish orphanages, and a unique portrait of life in a 1930s German farm camp for Jewish youths seeking to immigrate To watch some or all of the 30-miunite video podcast, click here.
FIVE FOR FREEDOM – Eugene Meyer traces the stories of five men who fought with John Brown at Harper’s Ferry in 1859 in a visit to Sotterley’s slave cabin. Feb. 28, 2025. To watch, click here.
My interview on Five for Freedom and more on the podcast "Rock Paper Write" posted on Dec. 12, 2024. To watch, click here. This is one of a series of interviews with Amy Watkins for the Kensington Row Bookshop.
"FIVE FOR FREEDOM" was the subject of Gene's Zoom presentation on "History Conversations," sponsored by Montgomery History (formerly The Montgomery County Historical Society) on Feb. 14, 2023. You can watch and listen by clicking here. To avoid the techie talk at the beginning, start at 6:01 into the YouTube video.
On November 22, 2022, Gene presented "Hidden Maryland: In Search of America in Miniature" with images and narrative in History Conversations, a series of talks for Montgomery History, the county historical society. To watch and listen , please click here.
A conversation on Book TV C-Span2 between Gene Meyer and Ira Shapiro, author of The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America, at the Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 21, 2022. To watch and listen, please click here.
Gene addresses the Woman's National Democratic Club on Nov. 16, 2021. He talks about FIVE FOR FREEDOM, his years at the Washington Post, and the future of democracy. To listen and watch, click here.
Another night, another Zoom! Gene talks about FIVE FOR FREEDOM, the men and the message, and its relevance today, presented by the Alexandria, Va. public library, on Sept. 8, 2020. To view it on YouTube, click here.
As part of Authors Reading Aloud, sponsored by the Harpers Ferry Park Association, Gene read passages from Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army, on Sunday, June 7, 2020, and discussed its message with host Catherine Magi.
For the 2020 virtual Gaithersburg Book Festival, Gene interviewed Casey Cep, author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, and author, columnist and pundit E.J. Dionne, on his latest book Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can United to Save Our Country.
Gene’s podcast, on the Biographers International Organization website, can be heard here. It was recorded live at Howard University on Oct. 28 and went live on Nov. 29, 2019. Gene talks about his book FIVE FOR FREEDOM, the story of the five African Americans with John Brown at Harpers Ferry in October 1859, and about the research that led to its publication.
Gene gave the keynote address at the 13th annual Montgomery County History Conference on Jan. 26, 2019. His topic: “Post-Bellum Montgomery – Coming to Terms with Our Southern Past.” It starts with MCHS Executive Director Matt Logan’s introduction at approximate 20:09. To watch and listen, click here.
Book Q & A on FIVE FOR FREEDOM With Deborah Kalb, published Jan. 12, 2019. Click here.
Listen to Dan Rodricks’ “Roughly Speaking” podcast. He interviewed me at the Kennedy Farmhouse, where Brown and his men gathered prior to the raid on Harpers Ferry. First aired Sept. 18, 2018.
Writers Live! Enoch Pratt Library podcast, Sept. 20, 2018. Click here.
The Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU-FM, DC’s NPR station, was a great venue for me to talk about FIVE FOR FREEDOM. I was impressed by Kojo’s questions and also by callers’ questions and comments. The show aired on Aug. 15, 2018 and is archived. Interestingly, Amazon sales shot right up that day. To listen, click here.
B’nai B’rith International CEO Dan Mariaschin interviews me about my book FIVE FOR FREEDOM: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army. Listen by clicking here:
Listen to the Mike Causey interview on GET UP WOMD 94.3 FM
On June 2, we launched FIVE FOR FREEDOM at Politics and Prose, the iconic indie bookstore in Northwest DC. To watch and listen, click here.
Live on Book C-SPAN, May 19, 2018, at the Gaithersburg Book Festival. Click here.
