Contributors

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Host

Anne Marie Cannon

Anne Marie is host and producer of two history podcast, Armchair Historians and Last Train Leaving Belgium. History is her jam. She has said, "history is the touchstone to many meaning conversations." These conversations are the inspiration behind Armchair Historians.

Anne Marie has also helped to produce the soon-to-be-released true crime podcast Spoon River Gothic.  

https://www.armchairhistorians.com

Guests

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Guest

Eric Walter

Eric Walter – Filmmaker & Storyteller of the Unexplained

Eric Walter is an award-winning director, editor, and documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His work explores the intersections of mystery, psychology, and the unexplained. Walter’s acclaimed debut feature, My Amityville Horror(IFC Films), was named one of the top ten festival genre films of 2012 and offers a deeply personal look at one of America’s most infamous hauntings.

As a lead editor and producer, his work has appeared on major platforms including Netflix, Amazon Prime, FX, AMC, and Disney+, and he is frequently featured as an expert on the Amityville case for ABC, A&E, and the Travel Channel.

Walter’s upcoming documentary, Dark Side of the Mountain, investigates the mysterious disappearances in Silver Plume, Colorado—continuing his fascination with the fine line between fact, folklore, and the human need to understand the unknown.

https://www.ericwalterdocs.com
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Guest

Jeff Lipkes

Jeff Lipkes was born and raised in Los Angeles and educated at U.C. Berkeley and Princeton, completing his Ph.D. in History in 1995. His dissertation was awarded the Joseph Dorfman Prize by the History of Economics Society.

Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August 1914 was published by University of Leuven Press in October, 2007, and is being distributed in North America by Cornell University Press. Lipkes is also the author of Politics, Religion and Classical Political Economy in Britain: John Stuart Mill and his Followers(Macmillan/​St. Martins, 1999), and half a dozen articles on the history of economic thought and British intellectual history.