Episodes

  • Maps, cookies, money, and fortune
    Jun 5 2024

    In this episode of History Stories, Dr. Megan Easley-Walsh discusses the stories behind a few intriguing antiques, talks about the origins of fortune cookies and the Chinese Exclusionary Act of the 1880s, discusses hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920s and the discoveries of the Roaring 20s, and talks about her novel Where Fortune Leads.


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    9 mins
  • Framing Art
    May 29 2024

    In this episode of History Stories, Dr. Megan Easley-Walsh discusses her novel Framed, the Bauhaus, targeted art, and setting the past on a better trajectory for the future.


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    8 mins
  • The Strength of Tea
    May 22 2024

    In this episode of History Stories, Dr. Megan Easley-Walsh discusses an antique teapot, quiet strength, Quakers, polar explorers, and her novel The Collectors.


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    9 mins
  • Stitched Together Through Time
    May 14 2024

    In this episode of History Stories, Dr. Megan Easley-Walsh talks about personal family history and wider global history related to quilts. She also discusses why she has a couple of quilted teddy bears on her bookshelves, orientating a life, the importance of reading for writers, her novel North Star Home, and her new contemporary release The Rancher's Secret.



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    8 mins
  • When the lights go on again
    May 8 2024

    In this episode, Dr. Megan Easley-Walsh discusses VE Day, illuminated manuscripts, the Book of Kells, her novel Vow of Gold, and holding onto hope of the light.

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    9 mins
  • 1930's Hollywood and Monsters Re-evaluated
    May 1 2024

    In this fifth episode of History Stories, Dr. Megan Easley-Walsh discusses classic monster movies, Budapest, the 1930s, a handmade find at the antiques fair, and how they all connect to her novel Painted Faces. In addition, she speaks to a historical understanding of the meaning behind the movies and suggests a re-evaluation of the monsters.


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    8 mins
  • Stories of Shakespeare and Revolution
    Apr 24 2024

    In this episode of History Stories, Dr. Megan Easley-Walsh discusses inspiration behind her novel Across the River, Shakespeare's impact on the English language, a centuries-old book, and a family story of plates in a river. She also discusses the importance of a plurality of voices in history. Read Across the River here.

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    9 mins
  • Stories of Peace
    Apr 17 2024

    In episode three of History Stories, Dr. Megan Easley-Walsh shares a look behind the scenes at her connections to the year 1884. This year, and one international event in particular, proved so interesting that she wrote both her novel, Meridian, as well as her doctoral thesis about it. She also examines why it's important to not only look at history and International Relations through wars. She also discusses a recent find at an antiques fair and how it relates to Meridian.


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