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

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

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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

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Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City

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America 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation

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

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A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957---The Space Race Begins

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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center

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1956: The World in Revolt

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

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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution

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San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires

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Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century

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The Man Who Loved China

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Coal: A Human History

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Wilson

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Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World

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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

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The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation

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Waterfront Manhattan: From Henry Hudson to the High Line

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

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The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams

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Public Enemies

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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation

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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

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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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The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

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Charles Dickens: A Life

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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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The Professor and The Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

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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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The real scoop on “The Roosevelts”: Jeffrey Rosen with Geoffrey Ward

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Rick Atkinson: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: Author Rick Atkinson returns to the PMML to discuss his latest book titled The British Are Coming, which is the first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution.

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Bill Gates & “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”: In an extended interview, business magnate and philanthropist Bill Gates discusses his new book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” with Andrew Ross Sorkin. In a wide ranging conversation, Gates weighs in on Elon Musk and Tesla, the Reddit Rebellion and subsequent GameStop drama, vaccination strategies, Bitcoin, and President Biden’s policies for a greener future. 

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128 Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History: Historians often portray the American Revolution as an orderly, if violent, event that moved from British colonists’ high-minded ideas about freedom to American independence from Great Britain and the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. But...

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Watergate Revisited with Garrett Graff

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Benjamin Franklin: portrait of a revolutionary: Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns tells us about the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin

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150 Woody Holton, Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Speculator: Abigail Adams lived through and participated in the American Revolution. As the wife of John Adams, she used her position to famously remind Adams and his colleagues to "remember the ladies" when they created laws for the new, independent United...

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Fear of Technology: From the tractor to talking robots, society has feared innovations. But usefulness usually overcomes resistance. Is today any different from the past?

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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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Rewind: The Construction of Penn Station: On January 1, 2021 Moynihan Train Hallofficially opens to the public, a new commuters' wing catering to both Amtrak and Long Island Railroad train passengers at New York's underground (and mostly unloved) Penn Station. To celebrate this big moment in New York City transportation history, we’re going to tell the entire story of Pennsylvania Station and Pennsylvania Railroad over two episodes, using a couple older shows from our back catalog.  The story of Pennsylvania Station involves more than just nostalgia for the long-gone temple of transportation as designed by the great McKim, Mead and White. It's a tale of incredible tunnels, political haggling and big visions.  Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest railroad in the world by the 1880s, but thanks to Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad, one prize was strategically out of their grasp -- direct access to Manhattan. An ambitious plan to link New Jersey to New York via a gigant

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#255 The Rescue of Grand Central

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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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#349 The Queensboro Bridge and the Rise of a Borough: “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby) This is the story of a borough with great potential and the curious brown-tannish cantilever bridge which helped it achieve greatness. The Queensboro Bridge connects Manhattan with Queens by lifting over the East River and Roosevelt Island, an impressive landmark that changed the fate of the borough enshrined in its curious name. In 1898, before the Consolidation of 1898, which created Greater New York and the five boroughs, much of Queens was sparsely populated -- a farm haven connected by dusty roads -- with most residents living in a few key towns, villages and one actual city -- Long Island City. With Brooklyn and Manhattan already well developed (and overcrowded in some sectors) by the early 20th century, developers and civic

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#143 Water for New York: Croton Aqueduct

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Rewind: Strange Hoaxes of the 19th Century: PODCAST REWIND Stories of outrageous hoaxes perpetrated upon New Yorkers in the early 19th century. In the 1820s, the Erie Canal would completely change the fortunes of the young United States, turning the port city of New York into one of the most important in the world. But an even greater engineering challenge was necessary to prevent the entire southern part of Manhattan from sinking into the harbor! That is, if you believed a certain charlatan hanging out at the market….. One decade later, the burgeoning penny press would give birth to another tremendous fabrication and kick off an uneasy association between the media and the truth. In the summer of 1835 the New York Sun reported on startling discoveries from one of the world’s most famous astronomers. Life on the moon! Indeed, vivid moon forests populated with a menagerie of bizarre creatures and winged men with behaviors similar those of men on Earth. boweryboyshistory.com A vers

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#208 Great Hoaxes of Old New York

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The Johnstown Flood: A Most Avoidable Tragedy

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#257 Frozen In Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888

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#110 New York City Subway, Part 2: By the Numbers (and Letters)

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Episode 2: Into the Great Wide Open (Part 1 of 3): Part one of our three part series on the most amazing chapter in human history: the space race.

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Staff Picks: The Johnstown Flood

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#253 Opening Day of the New York City Subway

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#214 Bronx Trilogy (Part Three) The Bronx Was Burning

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Built Airlines Now GPO Is Working On The Railroad

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#259 Crossing to Brooklyn: How the Williamsburg Bridge Changed New York

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What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

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#268 The Astonishing Saga of the Atlantic Cable

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The Chinese Immigrants Who Built America

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Rewind: The Deadly Draft Riots of 1863: This month we are marking the 160th anniversary of one of the most dramatic moments in New York City history – the Civil War Draft Riots which stormed through the city from July 13 to July 16, 1863. In many ways, however, our own city seems to have forgotten these significant events.