Underground Railroad

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The Slave Trade: Black Lives and the Drive for Profit

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A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump

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Hell's Traces: One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-Five Holocaust Memorials

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Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Icon Black Lives Matter Series

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Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir

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White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

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The Underground Railroad: The Clandestine Network of Routes and Safe Houses in the United States

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The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream

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Tropic of Orange

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I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

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The Story of the Statue of Liberty

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History of New York State: A Captivating Guide to Historical Events and Facts You Should Know About the Empire State

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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

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Further Along the Road Less Traveled: Mythology and Human Nature

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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

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Studies in Classic American Literature

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Freedom for All: The Life Story of Sojourner Truth

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Denied, Detained, Deported

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City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai

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Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

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The Mohawk Valley

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Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires

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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

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Public Opinion

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The Toronto Book of the Dead

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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

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Rappaccini's Daughter

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Sweet Land of Liberty: Old Times in the Colonies

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On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft

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Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter

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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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Summary: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen By David Brooks: Key Takeaways, Summary and Analysis

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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: Spanish Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

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The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

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The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

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The Six Cs of Effective Storytelling

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Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

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On Writing Well Audio Collection

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Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer (A 6-Week Artist's Way Program)

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Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic

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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

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Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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Learn French with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: French Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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Summary: Quiet by Susan Cain

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Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style

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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

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The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase

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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

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Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

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Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity

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#395 Jefferson Market and the Women's House of Detention: In the heart of Greenwich Village sits the Jefferson Market Library, a branch of the New York Public Library, But historically this space is more notoriously known for America's first night court (at the Jefferson Market Courthouse) and the Women's House of Detention, a facility which cast a gloom over the Village for over 40 years.

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Smithsonian director Kevin Young on the power of unexpected transformations: I like to say we're living in a precedent time, not an unprecedented one. How do we understand that? Being at the museum or writing histories both in poetry and in non-fiction are ways of trying to understand that.  “Gatekeepers” hold an essential role in our culture as those in positions of power who determine what we see and hear — and therefore how we understand our world. The poet Kevin Young holds dual gatekeeping roles as both director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture as well as the poetry editor for The New Yorker magazine.  In this episode, Young talks about how he holds these responsibilities and likens reading a poem to entering into a museum. He also shares his belief in the power of unexpected transformations, which songs have brought him comfort, and how it’s always easiest to write about the place you’ve just left.  References: Smithsonian's National Mu

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091-The Voyage of the Damned: In 1939, the United States turned back an ocean liner carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.

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Talk to the hands: Thea Lenarduzzi on the cultural history of gesture and body language; What is Chaucer to us today? When did he become known as the "Father of English poetry", and what did he get up to when he was not writing rude and memorable poetry? Julia ...

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Scrap Bag: Laurie and the Guarded Gate with Daniel Okrent

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The Harrowing History of Roosevelt Island: Before there was Rikers Island, there was Blackwell's—today known as Roosevelt Island. Historian Stacy Horn's newest book Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York is the first in-depth look at its dark past. In...

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228: Eastern State Penitentiary w/ Paul Kahan - A True Crime History Podcast: Eastern State Penitentiary has a rich and fascinating history. Built in the 1820s as a place to reform criminals, it saw an increase in violence over the decades before finally closing in 1971 as a working prison. It now operates as a history museum....

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Thomas Lockley, "A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court" (Hanover Square Press, 2024): An interview with Thomas Lockley

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Unearthing Queer History in America

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/165/ Black Spartacus ft. Sudhir Hazareesingh: CLR James’s electrifying 1938 history of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, has long been a staple of many radicals’ libraries. But we now know a lot more about the life of the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint L’Ouverture. Ho...

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The Freeing of the American Mind: Free minds. Freedom fries. Free speech. The Freedom Caucus. Freedom from. Freedom to. What do Americans really mean when they talk about freedom? Louis Menand’s “The Free World” is a 700-plus-page intellectual history of the Cold War period that traces the opening of the American mind to new ideas in art, literature, politics, music, foreign policy, criticism, higher education and campus activism. John Cage was making silent music, Jackson Pollock was throwing paint on canvases, Pauline Kael was giving us permission to actually enjoy movies. Thinkers like James Baldwin, Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt were arguing over what it meant to be free. Liberatory movements were trying to actually make Americans free. But what did it all get us? Out of all this ferment and conflict, what forms of freedom did Americans secure, and which did we lose? It’s hard to think of a writer better suited to explain the art and intellectual culture of the Cold War than Lo

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FREEDOM WINS ONE IN TROY, N.Y.: 1001 Stories For the Road

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#252 The Underground Railroad: Escape through New York

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Hugh Ryan!

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A Home for Black History: How a museum tells the story of the US via the lens of the African American experience

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#408 The Titanic and the Fate of Pier 54: On the rainy evening of April 18, 1912, survivors from the Titanic disaster were brought to the berth of the Cunard liner Carpathia at Pier 54 at the Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. On that very spot today, a fanciful waterfront development juts out into the Hudson River called Little Island.

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Making Queer History Public Episode 1: LGBTQ+ Archives with Steven G. Fullwood

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132 Coll Thrush, Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of the Empire: When we explore the history of early America, we often look at people who lived and the events that took place in North America. But what about the people who lived and worked in European metropoles? What about Native Americans? Today, we explore...

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The Underground Railroad on Boston Harbor (episode 135): In the 19th century, a network of abolitionists and sympathizers in Boston helped enslaved African Americans find their way to freedom in the Northern states or Canada. It’s a topic we’ve talked about before, but this time there’s a twist. We’re goi ...

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The Great Shanghai Escape Part I: In this new series launched by Jewish History Soundbites, we’ll explore the story of the escape to Shanghai from war torn Europe during the early stages of World War II. Among the thousands of Jewish refugees who obtained visas was the Mir Yeshiva. T...

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Ep. 75: The Hauntings of Union Cemetery: Is Union Cemetery in Easton, CT the most haunted cemetery in America?

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T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023): An interview with T. R. Johnson

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Thomas Smallwood and the Underground Railroad

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San Francisco, CA: Embrace Queer History in the Castro: Oneika Raymond walks Castro Street with filmmaker and drag performer Joshua Grannell (he/him) on their way to opening night of Frameline, the largest and longest running queer film festival in the world. The Castro is a historic San Francisco neighborhood which first became known as a hub for the Gay Civil Rights Movement of the 1970s. Oneika meets up with Joshua, or Peaches Christ, outside Queer A.F., a queer arts space dedicated to keeping LGBTQ+ artists in the Bay Area. It’s also the site of Castro Camera, the former headquarters of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. Joshua takes Oneika on a tour down memory lane as they stroll Castro Street’s Rainbow Honor Walk, pointing out notable figures like disco singer Sylvester along the way. He reflects on how the neighborhood has changed since he moved to the enclave as an aspiring filmmaker in 1996, and points out one institution tha

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50 Years, Woodstock Or Not To Woodstock?: 50 Year Anniversary, Peace & Love, Clara Scott, Join Mitchell, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young

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Thomas Lockley, "A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court" (Hanover Square Press, 2024): An interview with Thomas Lockley

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#353 Harlem Before the Renaissance: “If we were to offer a symbol of what Harlem has come to mean in a short span of twenty years, it would be another statue of liberty on the landward side of New York. Harlem represents the Negro’s latest thrust towards Democracy.” -- Alain Locke This is Part Two of our two-part look at the birth of Black Harlem, a look at the era BEFORE the 1920s, when the soul and spirit of this legendary neighborhood was just beginning to form.  The Harlem Renaissance is a cultural movement which describes the flowering of the arts and political thought which occurred mostly within the Black community of Harlem between 1920 and the 1940s. In particular the 1920s were described by writer Langston Hughes as “the period when the Negro was in vogue.” The moment when the white mainstream turned its attention to black culture.  But how Harlem become a mecca of Black culture and "the Capital of Black America"? This is the story of constructing a cultural movement on t

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The Oneida Perfectionist Religious Community

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Andrew O'Hagan on Caledonian Road: Dickens, Drill Gangs, and the Dark Web: On this episode, we were joined by author Andrew O’Hagan to discuss his truly exciting new novel, Caledonian Road, which has been selected as the Hatchards Fiction Book of the Month for April. Wedged between two epochal events that have shaped our...

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Compassion or control? Britain and the abolition of slavery with Dr Maeve Ryan: The HMS Derwent arrived in Freetown harbour, Sier…