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 • 140 episodes
For the Ages: A History Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams was called “the most elegant writer, the most sagacious politician, and celebrated patriot” by John Adams, his second cousin, and was applauded by other colleagues such as Thomas Jefferson. A mastermind behind the Boston Tea Party ...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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27:09
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
In a time when crossing political party lines can seem as treacherous as crossing a fault line during an earthquake, it could be difficult to believe that Abraham Lincoln, in a country even more divided than our contentious present-day one, rep...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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27:14
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
What did “the pursuit of happiness” mean to our nation’s Founders, and why was it included in the Declaration of Independence? Listed as one of America’s unalienable rights, this phrase finds its roots in the classical works of the Greek and Ro...
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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27:08
Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
Prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, oppressive voter registration literacy tests disenfranchised Black voters across the United States. In direct response to these restrictions, community organizers and activists launched an underground Cit...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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32:33
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Seeking to wrest control of New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the English King Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, appointed Richard Nicolls to lead a flotilla to conquer Manhattan Island. Nicolls, with a blend of might and diplom...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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32:03