Brooklyn's Sportsmen's Row: Politics, Society and the Sporting Life on Northern Eighth Avenue

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Brooklyn's Sportsmen's Row: Politics, Society & the Sporting Life on Northern Eighth Avenue

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Lost Amusement Parks of New York City: Beyond Coney Island

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The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America

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Boston Common

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Lost Coldwater

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Never Say Die: A Kentucky Colt, the Epsom Derby, and the Rise of the Modern Thoroughbred Industry

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The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn: An American Story

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Historic Photos of Columbus

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Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929

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Big Spring and Howard County

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A Walking Tour of A Saratoga Springs, New York

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Scollay Square

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Bums No More: The Championship Season of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers

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Historic Photos of Colorado Springs

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Rochester's Historic East Avenue District

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Haunted Crown Point, Indiana

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Akron

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Dropping In On New Orleans

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Massachusetts Avenue in the Gilded Age: Palaces & Privilege

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The Bowery Boys: Adventures in Old New York

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A History Lover's Guide to New York City

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West Roxbury

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History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad

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Bristol

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Oak Lane, Olney, and Logan

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Newtown Square

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Crookston

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Walking Austin: 33 Walking Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Musical Culture, and Abundant Natural Beauty

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Hidden History of Helena, Montana

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Birmingham

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

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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 Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner

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

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The Great Reset: And the War for the World

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

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A People's History of the United States

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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

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

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

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

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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class

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

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

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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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One Thought Scares Me...: We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don't Teach Our Children What We Don't Wish Them to Know

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

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

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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

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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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1776

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Land of Delusion: Deep inside the world of crackpots, conspiracy theorists, and radical ideas that are becoming dangerously mainstream

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The White Album: Essays

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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 Fifties

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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The Library Book

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#430 The Story of Flushing: Queens History, Old and New: Few areas of the United States have as endured as long as Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood with almost over 375 years of history and an evolving cultural landscape that includes Quakers, trees, Hollywood films, world fairs, and new Asian immigration.

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#390 The Story of Flatbush: Brooklyn Old and New: There have been many different Flatbushes -- rural, suburban and urban. In today's show we highlight several stories from these phases in this neighborhood's life.

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91: Six-Day Race Part 1: The Birth (1773-1870): The six-day race, running/walking as far as you can in six days, had its birth nearly 250 years ago in England, started by Foster Powell in 1773 who ran 400 miles in six days from London to York and back.

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Cattle Trails, Cowboys & Cattle Town, Part 3:Cattle Trails

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120: Ultrarunning Stranger Things – Part 10: Richard Lacouse – Scoundrel: Richard Lacouse was a famous ultrarunner/pedestrian from Boston during the late 19th century who amassed a fortune in winnings, and became a scoundrel

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#237 Columbus Circle: A Century of Controversy

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Ep. 352 - Cleveland's Millionaire's Row: Cleveland's Millionaires' Row was the place where the elite built their grand mansions in the early 1900s. Industry was booming and men like Marcus Hanna, Amasa Stone, Samuel Andrews, Charles F. Brush and John D. Rockefeller picked this sixth largest...

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148: Ultramarathons on Christmas Day 1879: In 1879, the featured Christmas Day sports event was ultrarunning. That day, at least four ultramarathons were taking place including one on a ship

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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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116: Ultrarunning Stranger Things – Part 6: Fraud, Theft, and Nuisance: Most ultrarunners of the 1800s were driven by motivations of greed and fame. Some were involved in wild free-spending lifestyles, scandals, illegal activities, and run-ins with the law.

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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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250-The General Slocum: In 1904 a sidewheel steamboat caught fire on the East River.

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? EE.UU. y México se ponen de acuerdo para tirar abajo estatuas de 'viejos ídolos'

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23: Dakota Bob – Transcontinental Walker: Dakota Bob walked across the United States 8 times from 1897-1910 and walked 125,000 miles during his life. Or did he? Was he the transcontinental champion?

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#379 How Chelsea Became a Neighborhood: PODCAST What does the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea mean to you? Religion and architecture? Art galleries and gay bars? Shopping and brunch after a stroll on the High Line? Tens of thousands of people, of course, call it home. But before it was a neighborhood, it was the Colonial-era estate of a British military officer who named his bucolic property after a London veterans hospital. His descendant Clement Clarke Moore would distinguish himself as a theologian and writer; he invented many aspects of the Christmas season in one very famous poem. But he could no longer preserve his family estate when New York civic planners (and the Commissioners Plan of 1811) came a-calling. Moore parceled the estate into private lots in the 1820s and 30s, creating both the exclusive development Chelsea Square and the grand, beautiful General Theological Seminary. Slowly, over the decades, this charming residential district (protected as a historic distric

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58: The 100-miler – Part 5 (1902-1926) London to Brighton and Back: Numerous 100-mile races were held from London to Brighton and back during the early 1900s by the Surrey Walking Club. The Brotherhood of Centurions was founded in 1911.

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Where Did Country Clubs Come From?: The late 1800s saw the invention of an important institution: the American country club. This week’s U.S. Open venue, The Country Club in Brookline, was the first—or at least one of the first. By the beginning of the 20th century, most major cities east ...

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

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#181 Park Slope and the Story of Brownstone Brooklyn

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The history of the American circus, with the people who worked there

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#428 The New York Game: Baseball in the Early Years: Tom and Greg are joined by Kevin Baker, author of The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City, to discuss the early history of the sport and its unique connections to New York City.

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Secret Places of Upper Manhattan

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Ep. 427 - The Village of Rugby: A British author founded the village of Rugby in the beautiful Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee. This was meant to be a utopia and for a time, it really was. Large Victorian buildings were constructed, social clubs were founded, lawn tennis was played...

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6: The Last Day Run (1965-1972)

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#212 Bronx Trilogy (Part One) The Bronx Is Born

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Boston’s Pickwick Disaster and the Dance of Death (episode 91): On the evening of July 3, 1925, Boston’s Pickwick nightclub collapsed while couples packed the dance floor. Dozens were trapped in the rubble, while firefighters, police, and laborers worked desperately to free them. In the end, 44 people were kill ...

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Building Brooklyn: Eighth Avenue: Brooklyn is constantly changing. This episode takes a look at the changes on just one street in one neighborhood: Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park, which many call Brooklyn's Chinatown. In the early 1990s, BPL and the Museum of Chinese in America...

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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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Alex O'Conor (Cosmic Sceptic) & The Absurdity of the Monarchy

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California’s Fascinating History: Travel back in time with host Soterios Johnson to get a taste of what the Golden State was like long ago