Articles By Kenneth C. Davis and Media Appearances

By Kenneth C. Davis

• Social Education (January-February 2023), “Why Books Matter: Books are Weapons in the War of Ideas”
• Social Education (National Council for the Social Studies) —  Strongman: The Rise of Dictators and the Fall of Democracy  October 2020
• Social Education (National Council for the Social Studies) — The American Contradiction: Conceived in Liberty, Born in Shackles (March/April 2020)
• Social Education (National Council for the Social Studies) — “Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport,” September 2019
• Smithsonian.com Philadelphia Threw a World War I Parade That Gave Thousands of Onlookers the Flu  -September 21, 2018
• Smithsonian.com — The History of American Impeachment-June 12, 2017
• New York Times — Juneteenth is for Everyone” – June 19, 2015
• New York Times — How the Civil War Created Thanksgiving – November 25, 2014
• Smithsonian.com — Eight Lessons for the Presidential Debates – October 3, 2012
• Fodor’s — 10 Presidential Sites to See This Election Year – September 10, 2012
• The Washington Post — Why do we have a President anyway? – September 7, 2012
• Smithsonian.com — The Top 10 Political Conventions That Mattered the Most –August 2012,updated 2020
• CNN.com – The blood and sweat behind Labor Day – September 2, 2011
• Smithsonian.com – Juneteenth: Our Other Independence Day – June 16, 2011
• CNN.com – Palin and the Truth About Paul Revere – June 9, 2011
• CNN.com – Why US is Not a Christian Nation – July 4, 2011
• New York Times – Schools of Hard Knocks – December 25, 2010 
• Smithsonian Magazine – America’s True History of Religious Tolerance – October 2010
• All Things Considered – Anti-Immigrant Rage Is Older Than The Nation Itself – May 25, 2010
• The New York Times – A French Connection – November 25, 2008 
• Smithsonian Magazine — The First “Teflon” Hero: What July 4th, 1754 reveals about George Washington’s survival skills — July 2008
• The New York Times – The Founding Immigrants – July 3, 2007
• The Rutland Herald — Don’t Know Much About the Nuremberg Trials — November 9, 2005
• The New York Times – Jefferson, Madison, Newdow? – March 26, 2004
• New York Times– Ethnic Cleansing Didn’t Start in Bosnia — September 3, 1995

Selected Media Interview with Kenneth C. Davis

•”On the Power of Reading: CBS Mornings Interviews Kenneth C. Davis”

•Kansas Public Radio Podcast “Conversations”: The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction (December 20,2024)

•ABC News Interview: 

•PBS Newshour Classroom: “Strongman Author Kenneth C. Davis on how democracies fall and teaching the Capitol Insurrection” (January 17, 2021)

•CBS This Morning (May 2014): “On the Origins of Memorial Day”

•Appearance on “Tony Guida’s New York” @cunytv to talk about Strongman

•Interview: “Book Q and As with Deborah Kalb”

•Interview with Karen Hunter about how a Strongman uses youth groups to grow a cult of personality.

•Vic Pasquantonio, QandA with author Kenneth C. Davis on slavery, “America’s great contradiction,” PBS Newshour Extra (July 30, 2020)

•Lisa Mullins, “Historian Draws Parallels Between the 1918 Spanish Flu and Today’s Coronavirus Pandemic,”  WBUR Boston Public Radio

•Vic Pasquantonio, “Have Americans forgotten the history of this deadly flu?” PBS Newshour (November 1, 62018)

•”Q&A with Kenneth C. Davis,” Sally Lodge, Publishers Weekly (May 15, 2018)

•”Don’t Know Much About the American Presidents: Kenneth C. Davis reveals strange facts about America’s leaders” Christian Science Monitor (October 24, 2012)