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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Fifth Avenue

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New York in the Sixties

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Exploring Gramercy Park and Union Square

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Egg Harbor City

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Hidden History of Ravenswood and Lake View

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The Real Gangs of New York: Organized Crime, #5

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Greenwich Village

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Exploring New York's SoHo

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A Players Almanac: An Anecdotal History

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New York City History for Kids: From New Amsterdam to the Big Apple with 21 Activities

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Watertown

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Brooklyn Before: Photographs, 1971–1983

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Lost Youngstown

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A Walking Tour of New York City's Upper West Side

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Lost Wonderland: The Brief and Brilliant Life of Boston's Million Dollar Amusement Park

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The Lower East Side

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The Bowery: A History of Grit, Graft and Grandeur

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Lost Amusement Parks of New York City: Beyond Coney Island

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A Walking Tour of Newark, New Jersey

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Rochester's Historic East Avenue District

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Denver

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Czech Village & New Bohemia: History in the Heartland

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Massachusetts Avenue in the Gilded Age: Palaces & Privilege

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When Did the Statue of Liberty Turn Green?: And 101 Other Questions About New York City

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A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis

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From Rags to Ricketts and Other Essays on Circus History

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Washington

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Scollay Square

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Ossining Remembered

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Broadway

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Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump

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The Great Reset: And the War for the World

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A People's History of the United States

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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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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

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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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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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The Wright Brothers

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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner

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The Untold History of the United States

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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

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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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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner

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1776

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

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

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Three Sisters in Black: The Bizarre True Case of the Bathtub Tragedy

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

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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

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The Library Book

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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Summary of The Fourth Turning: by William Strauss & Neil Howe - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny - A Comprehensive Summary

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

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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

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

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

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#431 Up and Down Park Avenue: History with a Penthouse View: The story of a filthy and dangerous train ditch that became one of the swankiest addresses in the world -- Park Avenue.

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#399 The Changing Lower East Side: A View From Seward Park: In this special episode, we look at the history of New York City as seen through one corner of the Lower East Side, best known for its landmark Seward Park. Created by the intersections of several streets, it's a place that has gone by many names -- in the past and even today.

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#135 The High Line

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Rewind: The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue: At the heart of New York’s Gilded Age — the late 19th-century era of unprecedented American wealth and excess — were families with the names Astor, Waldorf, Schermerhorn, and Vanderbilt, and all would make their homes — and in the case of the Vanderbilts, their great many homes — on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.

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#136 High Line Walking Tour

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#160 Tompkins Square Park

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#270 Heaven on the Hudson: A History of Riverside Park

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#183 Orchard Street: Life in the Lower East Side

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Episode 41: The Hauntings on 12 Gay Street

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#146 Herald Square

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#122: The Grid - Commissioners Plan of 1811

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Rewind: The Rebellious History of Tompkins Square Park: The history of Tompkins Square Park, a place of counter-culture, protest and pride in the heart of Manhattan's East Village.

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Bronzeville, Chicago: Tour the City’s ‘Black Metropolis’ with a Local TikToker and Historian: Oneika Raymond dials into Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, where historian Sherman ‘Dilla’ Thomas takes us on a bus tour through the birthplace of gospel music and Black History Month located just four miles south of the city’s downtown. Bronzeville has quickly become the most popular neighborhood tour that Dilla offers through his bus tour company, Chicago Mahogany Tours, thanks in part to the viral TikToks that Dilla makes to illuminate the history and contributions of Bronzeville, formerly known as the Black Metropolis. On his tour, Dilla brings the energy of his TikToks, and the stories of Bronzeville, to life. We start out on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, a road steeped in history. The 14-mile long street was renamed for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, making Chicago the first city in the country to name a street after the slain civil rights icon. As we drive the thoroughfare,

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Rewind: Seneca Village and New York's Forgotten Black Communities: The history of black and African-American settlements and neighborhoods which once existed in New York City in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Today we sometimes define New York City's African-American identity by the places where thriving black culture developed -- Harlem, of course, and also Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, neighborhoods that developed for groups of black residents in the 20th century. But by no means were these the first in New York City. Other centers of black and African-American life existed long before then. In many cases, they were obliterated by the growth of the city, sometimes built over without a single marker, without recognition. This is the story of a few of those places.  From the 'land of the blacks' -- the home to New Amsterdam and British New York's early black population -- to Seneca Village, a haven for freed people of color in the early 19th century that was wiped away b

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#416 Creating the East Village: When Manhattan's Third Avenue El was torn down in 1955, those who were attracted to the culture of Greenwich Village -- with its coffeehouses, poets, and jazz music -- began flocking to the east side, attracted to low rents. And thus the East Village was born.

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John DeFerrari and Douglas Peter Sefton, "Sixteenth Street NW: Washington, DC's Avenue of Ambitions" (Georgetown UP, 2022)

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French Fashion in Gilded Age America

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#386 On the Trail of the Old Croton Aqueduct: What 19th century American engineering landmark invites you through nature, past historic sites and into people's backyards? Join us on this journey along the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail, 26,5 miles of dusty pathway through some of the most interesting towns and villages in Westchester County.

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Reclaiming Denver’s Lost Chinatown: Don't forget it, Denver. It's Chinatown.

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37. The National Public Housing Museum with Robert J. Smith III: It would have been much easier to build the National Public Housing Museum from scratch instead of building it in the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes, one of the first public housing development in Chicago.

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#240 The Ghosts of Greenwich Village

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#304 The Miracle on Eldridge Street: EPISODE 304: The Eldridge Street Synagogue is one of the most beautifully restored places in the United States, a testament to the value of preserving history when it seems all is lost to ruin. Today the Museum at Eldridge Street maintains the synagogue, built in 1887 as one of the first houses of worship in the country for Eastern European orthodox Jews. The Moorish revival synagogue, adorned in symbolic decoration and sumptuous stained glass, reflected the Gilded Age opulence of the day while keeping true to the spirit of the Jewish faith. But by the 1950s, most of the Lower East Side's Jewish population had left for other districts, and the remaining congregation sealed off its beautiful sanctuary. For decades, it was hidden from all eyes, the ruinous space left to the ravages of deterioration. "Pigeons roosted in the balcony, benches were covered with dust, and stained glass windows had warped with time." However, thanks to a handful of deter

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Episode 31 - Free Access to Historic Media & Next Generation Genealogy: Genealogy research strategies & creative family history ideas for the family historian.

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Secret Places of Upper Manhattan

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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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#308 Andrew Carnegie and New York's Public Libraries: EPISODE 308 In the final decades of his life, steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie -- one of the richest Americans to ever live -- began giving his money away. The Scots American had worked his way up from a railroad telegraph office to amass an unimaginable fortune, acquired in a variety of industries -- railroads, bridge building, iron and steel. In the age of the monopoly, Gilded Age moguls often made their money in ways we might consider unethical and illegal today. But Carnegie's view of his wealth was quite different than that of his rarefied clubhouse peers Carnegie devoted his latter years to philanthropy, primarily devoting his energies to the creation of libraries across the country. By the late 19th century, the New York City area already had dozens of libraries and reading rooms throughout the future five boroughs.  But they were certainly not welcoming to every person. And those circulating libraries that were available wer

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Episode #34: Rivals- Pollock vs. de Kooning (Season 3, Episode 3): This episode is sponsored by The Great Courses Plus. Get a FREE month of unlimited access to over 9,000 lectures presented by engaging, award-winning experts on everything from art to physics, interior design and world languages. Sign up today...

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#213 Bronx Trilogy (Part Two) The Bronx is Building

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#287 Greenwich Village in the 1960s

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026-A Practical Joke on a Grand Scale: In November 1810 one of the most elaborate practical jokes of all time unfolded in an innocent London street.