Louis's expertise has been widely sought & he has contributed to the following articles about various areas of Presidential History

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February 19, 2024 New Jersey Star Ledger, "For President's Day, we examine what Trump may have in common with another leader"

 

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February 19, 2024 New York Sun, "This Presidents Day, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison Loom Large"

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February 20, 2024 Cracked Magazine, "The Five Most Ding-Dong Presidential Candidates of All Time

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O"ctober 5 2023 Miami Herald "Biden’s dog booted from White House. Lions, tigers and bear came before him — literally"

 

 

April 27, 2023 New York Times, "The President whose birthday today is (widely) ignored"

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March 21, 2023 Miami Herald "Trump says his arrest is imminent. Only one other president has been arrested — in 1872"

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February 27, 2023 McLatchy DC "Why do we have a State of the Union? Here’s a history of its traditions"

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December 14, 2022 New York Sun  "American Cincinnatus: Congress Weighs Promotion for General Grant”

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November 18, 2022 Time Magazine "As Naomi Biden Gets Married, Here Is the History of White House Weddings”

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November 16, 2022 Time Magazine "Donald Trump, Grover Cleveland, and the History of Trying to Win Back the White House”

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September 27, 2002  Japanese DC press "Washington didn't want a state funeral"

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April 27, 2022 New York Sun, "'Greatness of U.S. Grant Comes Into Sharp Relief at 200"

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August 15, 2021 Roxbury News "Roxbury Author offers intimate look at Grant and his Tomb"

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May 26, 2021 US1 Princeton Info Off the Presses: Grant’s Tomb by Louis L. Picone

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February 10, 2021 "The Presidential Podcast"

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October 3, 2020  "A history of secrecy when it comes to presidential illness" Financial TImes 

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June 2020, Writer's Experience podcast appearance

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December 2019, Travel Channel "American Mystery" Season 1 Episode “Gone Missing” Discussed the mystery of John F, Kennedy’s missing brain

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February 17, 2020 (Presidents Day) Mel Magazine (online & in print for all Dollar-Shave-Club members) “A Very Revealing History of Skinny-Dipping Presidents”

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October 2019 Mel Magazine (online & in print for all Dollar-Shave-Club members) “An Oral History of Trump’s Love Of Van Damme’s ‘Bloodsport’”

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December 12, 2018 NPR Radio “Weekend Edition Sunday” “Presidential Funerals: From Private Family Affairs To Major National Events”

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December 6, 2018 Washington Post “George H.W. Bush’s final ride: A train that connects him to a long presidential tradition”

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December 6, 2018 Atlanta News Journal “George H.W. Bush: Funeral train will be first in nearly 50 years” Featured in the article

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December 5, 2018 NPR Radio “The Takeaway” “How We Say Goodbye: Presidential Funerals and Moments of Unity”

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December 5, 2018 KCBS Radio San Francisco “A Historical Perspective of Presidential Funerals”

 

November 31, 2018 BBC5Live, Interviewed a few hours after President Bush’s death was announced to discuss his legacy.

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September 1, 2017 Radio interview “House of Mystery” 1150 AM KKNW Seattle D

 

July 17, 2017 www.HistoryAuthor.com Louis L. Picone – The President Is Dead! The Extraordinary Stories of the Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond.

 

February 20, 2017 (Presidents Day) www.HistoryAuthor.com Louis L. Picone – Where the Presidents Were Born: The History & Preservation of the Presidential Birthplaces

 

January 31, 2017 Hamilton Post "Hamilton native publishes two books about the lives of American presidents"​

 

January 8, 2017 Newark Star Ledger "Q&A with NJ writer who takes a presidential approach"

 

September 11, 2016 New York Post "How America’s presidents lived their final moments"

 

November 28, 2012 New York Daily News "New Yorker Louis Picone tracks Presidents right from the start, with book on all their birthplaces"