For the Ages: A History Podcast

By The New York Historical

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Explore the rich and complex history of the United States and beyond. Produced by The New York Historical, host David M. Rubenstein engages the nation’s foremost historians and creative thinkers on a wide range of topics, including presidential biography, the nation’s founding, and the people who have shaped the American story. Learn more at nyhistory.org.

Episode Date
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
May 12, 2025
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Apr 28, 2025
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
Apr 14, 2025
Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
Mar 31, 2025
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Mar 17, 2025
A Conversation with James Patterson
Mar 03, 2025
The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
Feb 17, 2025
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
Feb 03, 2025
The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency
Jan 20, 2025
American Reckoning: Inside Trump’s Trial―and My Own
Jan 06, 2025
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Dec 23, 2024
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
Dec 09, 2024
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
Nov 25, 2024
The British Are Coming
Nov 11, 2024
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
Oct 28, 2024
The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future
Oct 14, 2024
One Nation Under God: A History of Religion in America
Sep 30, 2024
Under the Dome: Politics, Crisis, and Architecture at the United States Capitol
Sep 16, 2024
A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (RE-RELEASE)
Aug 19, 2024
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 (RE-RELEASE)
Aug 05, 2024
A Conversation with Walter Isaacson (RE-RELEASE)
Jul 22, 2024
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (RE-RELEASE)
Jul 08, 2024
The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
Jun 24, 2024
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
Jun 17, 2024
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
Jun 10, 2024
The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man
Jun 03, 2024
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
May 27, 2024
JFK and the Promise of Democracy
May 20, 2024
LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
May 15, 2024
Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
May 06, 2024
In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863
Apr 29, 2024
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Apr 22, 2024
How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents
Apr 14, 2024
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Apr 08, 2024
Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War
Mar 25, 2024
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Mar 18, 2024
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Part Two
Mar 11, 2024
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Part One
Mar 04, 2024
Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
Feb 26, 2024
Mourning the Presidents
Feb 19, 2024
The Age of Lincoln
Feb 12, 2024
Coolidge
Feb 05, 2024
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part Two
Jan 29, 2024
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part One
Jan 22, 2024
John Quincy Adams: His Presidency and Final Years
Jan 15, 2024
John Quincy Adams: Early Life and the Road to the Presidency
Jan 08, 2024
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
Dec 18, 2023
Conflict: The Evolution of Modern Warfare
Dec 11, 2023
Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court
Dec 04, 2023
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
Nov 27, 2023
The Liberation Trilogy: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Nov 20, 2023
The Liberation Trilogy: The War in Sicily, Italy, and North Africa
Nov 13, 2023
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Nov 06, 2023
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Oct 30, 2023
Beyond the White House: From George Washington to Donald Trump
Oct 23, 2023
The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House
Oct 16, 2023
Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
Oct 02, 2023
American Republics, 1783–1850: Slavery, Native Americans, and American Identity
Sep 25, 2023
American Republics, 1783–1850: Democracy and Empire
Sep 18, 2023
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Jun 26, 2023
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Jun 19, 2023
Flora MacDonald: Journey to the New World and the Revolutionary War
Jun 12, 2023
Flora Macdonald: The Escape of “Bonnie” Prince Charlie
Jun 05, 2023
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945
May 22, 2023
Our Composite Nation: The Reconstruction of American Democracy in the Age of the Civil War
May 15, 2023
American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020
May 08, 2023
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
May 01, 2023
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
Apr 24, 2023
Silent Spring Revolution: American Presidents and the Great Environmental Awakening
Apr 17, 2023
The Year of Peril: America in 1942
Apr 10, 2023
Cuba: An American History
Apr 03, 2023
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis: Part II
Mar 27, 2023
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis: Part I
Mar 20, 2023
Ways and Means: How the Confederacy Financed the Civil War
Mar 13, 2023
Ways and Means: How the Union Financed the Civil War
Mar 06, 2023
American Inheritance: Slavery and the New Republic
Feb 27, 2023
American Inheritance: Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
Feb 20, 2023
How to Invest: Masters on the Craft
Feb 13, 2023
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, Part II
Feb 06, 2023
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, Part I
Jan 30, 2023
Lincoln and Emancipation
Jan 23, 2023
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jan 16, 2023
The Bald Eagle Part Two: The History of the Bald Eagle in America
Jan 09, 2023
The Bald Eagle Part One: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
Dec 26, 2022
My Life in Special Operations: Operation Neptune Spear and the Raid on the bin Laden Compound
Dec 19, 2022
My Life in Special Operations: The Capture of Saddam Hussein
Dec 12, 2022
In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam
Dec 05, 2022
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Nov 28, 2022
The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story
Nov 21, 2022
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
Nov 14, 2022
The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Oral History of America’s Presidential Transitions
Nov 07, 2022
A Conversation with Tom Brokaw
Oct 24, 2022
A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed
Oct 17, 2022
Presidential Elections and the Supreme Court
Oct 10, 2022
A Conversation with Billie Jean King
Oct 03, 2022
Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
Sep 26, 2022
Robert E. Lee: A Life
Sep 19, 2022
A Conversation with Eric Foner
Sep 12, 2022
A Conversation with Louise Mirrer
Jun 27, 2022
How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
Jun 20, 2022
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Jun 13, 2022
Three Days at the Brink: FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II
Jun 06, 2022
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
May 23, 2022
The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783
May 16, 2022
Abraham Lincoln in His Times
May 09, 2022
How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions
May 02, 2022
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956
Apr 25, 2022
A Conversation with Jeffrey Rosen: The Life and Legacy of Justice Ginsburg
Apr 18, 2022
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Apr 11, 2022
A Conversation with Brenda Child
Apr 04, 2022
The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream
Mar 28, 2022
Cover Story: Katharine Graham, CEO
Mar 21, 2022
A Conversation with John M. Barry: The Great Influenza
Mar 14, 2022
The World: A Brief Introduction
Mar 07, 2022
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Feb 28, 2022
A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Feb 21, 2022
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family, and Defiance during the Blitz
Feb 14, 2022
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Feb 07, 2022
A Conversation with Akhil Reed Amar: The Electoral College
Jan 31, 2022
Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
Jan 24, 2022
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Jan 17, 2022
A Conversation with Michael Beschloss
Jan 10, 2022
A Conversation with Bernard L. Schwartz
Dec 27, 2021
A Conversation with Walter Isaacson
Dec 20, 2021
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Dec 13, 2021
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
Dec 06, 2021
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
Nov 29, 2021
Shakespeare in a Divided America
Nov 15, 2021
An Evening with Drew Gilpin Faust
Nov 08, 2021
An Evening with Robert A. Caro: Working
Nov 01, 2021
An Evening with Jill Lepore
Oct 18, 2021
A Conversation with Ron Chernow
Oct 04, 2021
Silver, Sword, and Stone: A History of Latin America
Sep 20, 2021
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom Featuring: H.W. Brands
Sep 06, 2021
A Conversation with Joanne Freeman: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Aug 23, 2021
The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency
Aug 08, 2021
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
Jul 26, 2021
A Conversation with Philip Deloria: America’s First Inhabitants
Jul 12, 2021
A Conversation with Cokie Roberts
Jun 29, 2021
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Jun 10, 2021