Waterfront Manhattan: From Henry Hudson to the High Line

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A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States

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Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City

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Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels

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The NYPD: The History and Legacy of the New York City Police Department

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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City

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

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The Bowery Boys: Adventures in Old New York: An Unconventional Exploration of Manhattan's Historic Neighborhoods, Secret Spots and Colorful Characters

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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America

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Afloat on the Ohio

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Motor City: The History of the Fur Trade Outpost that Became Detroit

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Leland Stanford: The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California's Governor and the West's Most Famous Robber Baron

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America’s Greatest Engineering Projects: The Construction History of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal, and the Hoover Dam

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The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast

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Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City

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Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression

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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center

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The Story of Manhattan

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A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup

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The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh: The Secret Partners

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Mr. Media: The Robert Greenfield Interview

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Crisis!: When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule

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The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

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Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class

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The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum

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19th Century America’s Most Influential Naval Officers: The Lives, Careers, and Battles of Stephen Decatur, Oliver Hazard Perry, David Farragut, David Dixon Porter, and George Dewey

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Eli Whitney: The Life and Legacy of the American Inventor Whose Cotton Gin Transformed the Antebellum South

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Smugglers' Times:: Smuggling In The Days Of Marijuana Prohibition.

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Hollywood’s Favorite Screwball Actresses: The Lives and Legacies of the Women Who Popularized the Comedy Genre

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The Robber Barons

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Barry Lyndon: The Lost Manuscript

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Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

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Sins of the Founding Father: George Washington, the Indigenous Tribes, and the Decisions that Shaped America’s Future

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Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

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1776

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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John Adams

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The Book of Charlie

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The Untold History of the United States

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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The Wright Brothers

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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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Spanish Texas, Mexican Independence, and American Settlement: Long before Texas was a U. S. state, it was a part of Mexico, which in turn was part of the massive Spanish Empire. When Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, it became the northeastern most province of the new nation. At about that same...

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The Battle of Lepanto: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Battle of Lepanto, 1571.

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Joan Didion, Conservative (w/ Sam Tanenhaus): Matt and Sam are joined by Sam Tanenhaus to make sense of Joan Didion's conservatism: her Sacramento roots, her early writing for National Review, why she loved Barry Goldwater (and hated Ronald Reagan), and much, much more.

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Ep. 0154: Orwell Your Orwell with David Ramsay Steele

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The Camorra Clans of Naples: Italy's Most Violent Criminal Organizarion

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Chasing the Gold: A Gilded Age Tour Up Manhattan: A fascinating tour through over 100 years of New York history showing how the Gilded Age developed and evolved from an architectural and urban planning point of view.  Guest historian and tour guide Keith Taillon takes listeners on a journey explaining how key Gilded Age neighborhoods became established and grew.

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GONE AT MIDNIGHT-Jake Anderson: 21 year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel—a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and tragedy. The next day, Elisa vanished. A search of the...

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Seincast 013 - The Apartment: "Don't insult me, my friend. Remember who you're talking to. No one's a bigger idiot than me." You're all winners!!!...for downloading our discussion of the eighth episode from season two, "The Apartment". We were very excited to discuss...

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Alan Bennett: What I did in 2014: Alan Bennett on what he did in 2014. Read more Alan Bennett in the LRB: https://lrb.me/bennettpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast

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President Nixon's UFO Secrets | Ep78: This week I'm talking to Paul Blake Smith about his book 'The Nixon-Gleason Alien encounter: An Investigation into Nixon's Secret Airbase Meetings to View Extraterrestrials'. Under the cover of night, on February 19th, 1973, another U.S. President...

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The end of the Cold War and British culture: Professor Robert Service describes how the leaders of the United States and Soviet Union – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev – brought about a dramatic change in east-west relations. Meanwhile, historian Dominic Sandbrook talks to us about his new BB...

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87. The Palm Beach Chronicles: Dominick Dunne Seeks The Real Palm Beach

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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: Silicon Valley Bank is dead. The institution that was a major financier for venture capitalists, tech start-ups and other Silicon Valley outfits has collapsed. Enter: the federal government.

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Gossip, Scandal and High Society: The gossipy, sometimes vile, rude but always honest diaries of Chips Channon.

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Seincast 012 - The Phone Message & The Bet (aka The Lost Episode): "I can't drink coffee late at night. It keeps me up." Put on your favorite pair of Dockers and spread out under the lemon tree because we've got a lot to cover in our discussion of the seventh episode from season two, "The Phone Message"! We're also...

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Steven Higashide, "Better Buses, Better Cities : How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit" (Island Press, 2019): Higashide shows us what a successful bus system looks like with real-world stories of reform—such as Houston redrawing its bus network overnight,

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The Killing of Osama bin Laden: Seymour Hersh talks to Christian Lorentzen: Seymour Hersh talks to Christian Lorentzen about his pieces for the LRB, collected in a new book, The Killing of Osama bin Laden. Read Seymour Hersh in the LRB: https://lrb.me/hershpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast

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Michael Gray: We devote our next two episodes to Michael Gray, one of this podcast’s literary heroes. Seems we owe it all to Linda, the university girlfriend who introduced him to Bob’s work. “Coming from a rock ‘n’ roll background, I had no interest in folk-clubbery; it just seemed weird”. Soon he was marvelling at the poetry and, at Liverpool in 1966, Dylan’s “extraordinary ability to recite at length, stoned out of his head, yet word perfect.” Michael talks us through the various editions of his classic Song & Dance Man, from the slim first edition to the gigantic third version, which Uncut called “dazzlingly brilliant... an intellectual tour de force... an essential companion”. In between, we hear about his relationship with “the bony figure who came through the middle of the curtain” and changed his life. Michael Gray is a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan. His Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan, published in 1972, was the first full-length critical study of Dylan’s wor

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3.14 Lin Zexu vs Big Opium: Last time we spoke, the British government was walking a tight rope between getting their tea fix and not being banned from trade with China. When Britain ended the East India company’s monopoly over the China trade, they assumed they could not be...

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Seincast 011 - The Chinese Restaurant: "Seinfeld...four!" We've got oh, five...ten...make that over 100 minutes discussing (in *excruciating* detail) the sixth episode of season two, "The Chinese Restaurant"! We just bought new mics, and while the audio quality has gotten...

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Bitcoin of the realm: El Salvador’s experiment: President Nayib Bukele thinks obliging businesses to take the cryptocurrency will help with remittances, inclusion and foreign investment. So far, few are convinced. From after-school tutoring to endless extracurricular activities, education is an incr...

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The mayor and the art heist mystery: Mayor Knut Kreuch's mission to solve one of Germany’s biggest art thefts

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San Francisco history timecapsule podcast, 03.09.09, Sparkletack.com: THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:America's "Master Birdman" makes his final flight March 15, 1915: "The Man Who Owns the Sky" It was the year of the legendary Panama-Pacific International Exposition. San Francisco had once again earned that pho[...]

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Episode 291-America Strikes Back-The Marshalls & Gilberts Raids

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DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK: THE HOUNDS OF HELL UNLEASHED: 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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57: Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba

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The Rise of "Legal Fraud" | Bethany McLean

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Episode 114: “My Boy Lollipop” by Millie: This weeks episode looks at My Boy Lollipop and the origins of ska music. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on If You Wann

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When Ancient India Beat Machiavelli to the Punch: Commonly regarded as one of humanity's premiere works on the art of pursuing and securing power, Niccolò Machiavelli's book ''The Prince'' has become so popular that the name of its author is synonymous with unethical behavior in the modern day. However,

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Broken Record Presents: Cautionary Tales - Bowie, Jazz and the Unplayable Piano: Sometimes we do our best work not when things are going well, but when a wrench has been thrown in the works.