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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Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City

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The Bowery: The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street

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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

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Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu

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Eiffel's Tower: The Thrilling Story Behind Paris's Beloved Monument and the Extraordinary World's Fair That Introduced It

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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City

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

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Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

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Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum

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

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The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society

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Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story

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Waterfront Manhattan: From Henry Hudson to the High Line

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Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World

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Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England

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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles

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London: The Biography

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Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon

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To Marry an English Lord

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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

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Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones

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New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

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Life on Stage

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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

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Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

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Eleanor in the Village

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Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy

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The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

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Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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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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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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

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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

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

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

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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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The Untold History of the United States

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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

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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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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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John Adams

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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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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

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

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Up From Slavery

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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

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The Wright Brothers

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1776

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

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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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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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Marjorie Merriweather Post Part 1

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Chanel and the Riviera: Biographer Anne de Courcy discusses the experiences of fashion designer Coco Chanel, as well as some of the other famous faces who graced the French Riviera, during the interwar years and the era of Nazi occupation. Historyextra.com/podcast

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Handmaid in America: This week, why Margaret Atwood dedicated “The Handmaid’s Tale” to a woman known as Half-Hanged Mary. Plus, the Kinks’ Ray Davies shares his playlist of his favorite American songs, and the story behind that album with George Carlin’s classic bit, “Seven

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Antoni Gaudi, Part 1: You probably know Gaudi's work, even if you don't recognize his name. His distinctive architecture is featured throughout Barcelona. But his life started humbly, as the son of a Reus coppersmith.

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The Unsolved Murder of Sir Harry Oakes: In the 1940s the Bahamas was something of a tropical paradise for the world’s rich. Used as a tax haven and an island getaway far removed from the battlefields of war, it was an idyllic retreat for those that could afford it. Its society had a somewhat d...

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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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The Woman in the Window: This week, we discuss Amazon's acquisition of MGM Studios and review the Netflix film "The Woman in the Window."

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102. Capote's Coterie | The High Society Six: Babe Paley

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Episode #4: The Problem of Michelangelo's Women (Season 1, Episode 4): There are lots of questions that come up in every art history classroom. We hear them over and over again. What is art, really, and how can you define it? Why is the Mona Lisa smiling? What happened to the Winged Victory's arms? And then there's...

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Best of - General Colin Powell: My American Journey: Colin Powell, who died on October 18, 2021, wore many hats during his distinguished career in public service, among them: Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and National Security Advisor. And he was the first African-American to hold each of those positions. When he joined the Army in the 1950's, though, his only ambition was to be a good soldier. It was beyond the realm of possibility for the son of working class Jamaican immigrants to aspire much higher. In this episode, which originally posted in September of 2017, you'll hear Powell's stories about his journey from the South Bronx, to the jungles of Vietnam, to the Jim Crow South, to the highest reaches of government, and about the decades of American history he helped shape.

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E383 Ms. Pat

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American Royals Book Club + Everything Royal: Deep Dive into Katharine McGee’s Book American Royals

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The Real Peaky Blinders: Who were the real Peaky Blinders? Did they really exist? Carl Chinn reveals the true story of the notorious gangs that roamed Birmingham's streets during the city's industrial heyday.

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California Gold Rush

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Ukraine and Russia: A Quick History: Understanding the complex history of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine.

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JFK & Jackie | The Political Runway | 4

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Author Interview: Michael Finkel on "The Art Thief"

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84. Books Quiz special episode

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The first Georgians with Lucy Worsley: The Georgian era was marked by the arrival of the Hanoverian kings.  This series compiled from our archive, explores famous Georgians in all their glory. In this talk Chief Curator Lucy Worsley takes a sneak peek behind the scenes of the BBC Four...

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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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#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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124. History of Tite Street, Chelsea

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#236 Times Square in the '70s

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#165 Ladies' Mile

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#357 Edith Wharton's New York: New York's upper class families of the late 19th century lived lives of old-money pursuits and rigid, self-maintained social restrictions -- from the opera boxes to the carriages, from the well-appointed parlors to the table settings. It was leisure without relaxation.  In this episode we examine the story of Edith Wharton -- the acclaimed American novelist who was born in New York City and raised inside this very Gilded Age social world that she would bring to life in her prose. She was a true "insider" of New York's wealthy class -- giving the reader an honest look at what it was like to live in the mansions of Fifth Avenue, to attend an elite dinner soiree featuring tableaux vivants and to carry forth an exhausting agenda of travels to Hudson River estates, grand Newport manors and gardened European villas. We can read her works today and enjoy them simply as wonderful fiction -- and incredible character studies -- but as lovers of New York City his

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#232 The Story of SoHo

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#136 High Line Walking Tour

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#244 The Rise of the Fifth Avenue Mansions

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#146 Herald Square