David Rubel - Author, Historian, Speaker
Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes
Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes holds up a copy of David’s Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times, which she handed out to children in Istanbul during a 2005 listening tour of the Middle East.

 

 

Interviews

 

The Carpenter's Gift

 

Video Icon Watch three videos about Carpenter’s Gift illustrator Jim LaMarche, the making of special paper from the Rockefeller Center tree, and the use to which Habitat for Humanity puts the tree lumber.


Document Icon Download instructions on how to fold an origami star like the one on the book’s cover. (Choose “Fold a star like Henry’s.”)

 

Document Icon Read an interview with David on the Two Writing Teachers blog.


Document Icon Read an interview with illustrator Jim LaMarche in the December 2011 issue of Habitat World magazine.

 


 

If I Had a Hammer

 

Video Icon Watch the If I Had a Hammer book trailer.

 

Video Icon Watch David and President Carter talk about the Habitat for Humanity experience.

 

Video Icon Watch David on Fox’s “Good Morning Atlanta.”

 

Video Icon Watch Jimmy Carter on NBC’s “Today.”

 

Video Icon Watch a slideshow of David’s book signing with President Carter at the Carter Center in Atlanta.

 

Listen Download a podcast of David being interviewed on WFSH Atlanta.

 

Document Icon Download an interview with David in Habitat World magazine (on page 29).

 


 

The Bedside Baccalaureate

 

Listen Download a podcast of David being interviewed on KFJC’s “Dancin’ in the Fast Lane with Ann Arbor.”


Listen Listen to David being interviewed on Blogcritics Radio.

 


 

The Coming Free

 

Listen Download a podcast of David being interviewed on on WCBQ’s “Dr. Alvin Augustus Jones Show.”

 


 

To the Best of My Ability

 

Television Icon Download podcasts of David’s brief biographies of the US presidents.

 


 

Interests

 

Listen Download a podcast of David discussing “Thanksgiving without Fear” on WAMC’s “Vox Pop” call-in show.