Robert Watson is an award-winning author who has published over 40 books and 200 scholarly articles and essays on topics in political, military, and social history, as well as two multi-edition, multi-volume encyclopedia sets on the presidents and first ladies. Some of his recent books include
Affairs of State (2012),
America’s First Crisis (2014),
The Nazi Titanic (2016),
The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn (2017),
George Washington’s Final Battle (2021),
Escape (2021),
When Washington Burned (2023) and
American’s First Plague (2023), as well as the forthcoming (2024) book
Rebels at the Gates. Watson’s books have won numerous awards including the Independent Publishers’ Gold Medal in History and Silver Medal in History, Commodore John Barry Book Award, John Lyman Book Award, Global Book Award, etc., have been featured on C-SPAN’s Book TV and at prominent literary festivals around the country, and are available in both audiobook and international translation; three of his books have been featured as TV shows.
A frequent media commentator, Watson has been interviewed thousands of times by news outlets around the world, including CNN, MSNBC,
USA Today,
The New York Times, NPR, and the BBC, and has appeared on
Hardball,
The Daily Show, C-SPAN’s
American History TV,
The Washington Journal, etc. He was a longtime Sunday columnist for the
Sun-Sentinel newspaper and political analyst for WPTV 5 (NBC) and a regular guest on such outlets as WPBT 2 (PBS), WIOD 610 AM, WFTL 850 AM, RTE 1 Ireland, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has served as a researcher and on-screen expert for several historical documentaries for the Discovery, Science, National Geographic, History, Fuse, Super Channel, and other TV networks, including three seasons of an international award-winning series on the Nazis.
