For the Ages: A History Podcast
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.
Podcasting since 2021 • 127 episodes
For the Ages: A History Podcast
Latest Episodes
The British Are Coming
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Rick Atkinson joins David Rubenstein to uncover the untold stories and moral conflicts—from both the American and British perspective—of the first 21 months of the Revolutionary War. Through the lens ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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34:08
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
The women’s suffrage movement was a hard-fought, decades-long campaign to extend that most essential of democratic rights to all Americans regardless of sex. That protracted struggle would rapidly come to a head in August of 1920 in Tennessee, ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future
Joe Biden’s legacy as America’s 46th president is still in the making. President Biden took office shortly after the attempted coup on January 6th, during the cresting of one of the most fatal waves of COVID-19, and in a period of severe econom...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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27:01
One Nation Under God: A History of Religion in America
Enshrined in our Constitution and etched into our currency, religion is inextricable from the fabric of American political and social life. The ubiquity of religion in our national history has also made it an elusive, at times contradictory, fo...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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26:48
Under the Dome: Politics, Crisis, and Architecture at the United States Capitol
The US Capitol building is a powerful physical symbol of representative democracy, with its famous dome one of America’s most iconic architectural feats. The solidity and dependability of that symbol, however, belie the dynamic history of the e...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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