Writing & Media Appearances
Michael Koncewicz has published writing across top-tier publications, including The Washington Post, CNN, Los Angeles Times, Politico, and The Nation.
His television appearances include CBS News, EPIX’s docu-series Slow Burn, Buzzfeed news, and more. Michael also provides commentary on dozens of podcast and radio shows, such as Nostalgia Trap and NPR.
Recent Work
Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, Capitol Hill Antiwar Lobbyists
Jacobin
March 11, 2024
Howard Zinn Carried Out an Act of Radical Diplomacy in the Middle of the Vietnam War
Jacobin
August 25, 2022
Gaslit Zeroes in on Loyalty to Nixon, But Not Nixon’s Crimes
Clio and the Contemporary
July 8, 2022
No Turning Back: Ten Years After Occupy
A Digital Exhibit on Occupy Wall Street
(Co-Curated with Shannon O’Neill)
October 2021)
“Do Jobs Outside of the Academy Support Scholarship?”
The Academic Jobs Crisis: A Forum
Passport: SHAFR Review
April 2021
“The Past and Future of the Left in the Democratic Party”
(With Michael Brenes)
The Nation
December 9, 2020
Review of David Paul Kuhn’s The Hardhat Riot:
Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White
Working-Class Revolution
New York Labor History Association
December 6, 2020
“Republicans won’t speak out against Trump
because they’re afraid politically”
Washington Post
November 20, 2020
“Loyalty and Duty in the Federal Bureaucracy,
From Nixon to Trump”
History News Network
October 4, 2020
“Rightwing Populism and the White Neighborhood”
Journal of Urban History
September 14, 2020
Tin’s Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming (With Robert Cohen)
The Nation
May 4, 2020.
The GOP Appointees Who Defied the President
The Atlantic
November 19, 2019
All the President’s Librarians
Contingent
July 19, 2019
Anonymous ‘resistance’ is weak tea compared with standing up to Nixon
CNN
September 7, 2019
Trump is acting like Richard Nixon. Now we need
other to channel the heroes of Watergate
The Washington Post
August 25, 2018
Today’s GOP have little in common with those
who resisted Nixon
The Conversation
August 23, 2018
Reporting from Behind Enemy Lines: How the National
Guardian and Liberation Brought Vietnam to the American Left
American Journalism
Spring 2018
How Republican dirty tricks paved the way for
Russian meddling in 2016
The Washington Post
March 09, 2018
Review of Robert Justin Goldstein’s Discrediting the Cold War: Discrediting the Red Scare.
The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran".
American Communist History
Vol 17 , 1, 2018
The Gatekeepers Who Shaped the Modern White House
Reviews in American History
Johns Hopkins University
Volume 46, Number 1, March 2018
It took heroes inside of the administration to bring
down Nixon. We should be so lucky in 2017
The Los Angeles Times
May 17, 2017
The Trump Administration’s Problem with Watergate
History News Network
March 19, 2017
Media Appearances
Television Appearances
Featured in Slow Burn’s Watergate Documentary (EPIX)
Episode 6: Saturday Night Massacre & Impeachment
BuzzFeed News
That Literally Happened? (Multiple Episodes)
- That Time the President Forgot How to Spell “Potato”
- Bob Dole and Viagra
- Hands Across America
- Y2K Revisited
September 2019- December 2019
CBS News (CBSN)
45th Anniversary of Richard Nixon’s Resignation August 8, 2019
Brademas Center of New York University (NYU-TV)
Timothy Naftali (Interlocutor), They Said No to Nixon
February 28, 2019
C-SPAN (Book-TV)
They Said No to Nixon Book Talk
November 10, 2018
i24 News
Take :30 with Shayna Estulin
January 14, 2019
Fox TV’s Chasing News (MY9NJ)
Woman Fights To Remove Congressman/Soviet Spy's Name From NYC Plaza
May 23, 2017
Podcast & Radio
America’s Democrats Podcast
Jim Cuddy, Political Reckonings
January 18, 2021
The Nostalgia Trap
David Parsons, Episode 224: Michael Koncewicz
October 19, 2020
Morano in the Morning (AM 970 The Answer)
Frank Morano, Presidential Libraries,
February 16, 2020
Letters and Politics (KPFA- Berkeley, CA)
Mitch Jesserich, Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump
January 31, 2020
Politics Junkie (PRX)
Ken Rudin, They Said No to Nixon
January 30, 2020
America’s Democrats Podcast
Jim Cuddy, Dangers to Democracy
October 28, 2019
A Public Affair (WORT- Madison, WI)
Esty Dinur, Nixon, Trump, and the History of Impeachment
September 27, 2019
Get Up! (WOWD- Tacoma Park, MD)
Michael Causey, They Said No to Nixon
February 4, 2019
Trump Watch (KPFK- Los Angeles)
Jon Wiener, Michael Koncewicz on Nixon
November 29, 2018
New Books Network
Bill Scher, They Said No to Nixon
October 11, 2018
The Show (NPR- KJZZ- Phoenix)
Steve Goldstein, Republicans Told Nixon To Resign —
Will They Do The Same To Trump?
September 10, 2018
United States of Anxiety (NPR-WNYC- New York)
Kai Wright, Post-Episode Call-In Show
June 27, 2017
The Nostalgia Trap
David Parsons, Episode 68: Michael Koncewicz
June 25, 2017
To The Point (NPR-KCRW- Los Angeles)
Warren Olney, Is the House Intel Committee's Russia probe dead?
March 23, 2017
Featured Comments
History Today
”What was the Legacy of Watergate Scandal?”
June 2, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle
Scott Thomas Anderson, “Hunter S. Thompson’s
longtime editor ponders “Fear and Loathing in 2020”
July 19, 2020
The Daily 202 (The Washington Post)
James Hohmann, Five reasons Trump is poised to get acquitted—but Watergate brought down Nixon
January 28, 2020
Politico Nahal Toosi, How a stronger anti-war movement rallied to stop a march to war with Iran
January 19, 2020 (Featured Comments)
The Daily 202 (The Washington Post)
James Hohmann, Mnuchin's refusal to release Trump's taxes recalls a treasury secretary who resisted White House pressure
May 7, 2019