For the Ages: A History Podcast

By New-York Historical Society

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Explore the rich and complex history of the United States and beyond. Produced by the New-York Historical Society, 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
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