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NBN Episodes hosted by Peter:
May 4, 2021
All the Nations Under Heaven
All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York by Frederick M. Binder, David M. Reimers, and Robert W. Snyder (Columbi…
April 30, 2021
Patria
Edgardo Meléndez's book Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Nineteenth Century New York (Centro Press, 2019) examines the activities and ideals of…
March 9, 2021
New York Recentered
Providing a fresh perspective is one of the biggest challenges for historians of New York City. Kara Murphy Schlichting, however, has managed to do ju…
February 16, 2021
Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity
In Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York (SUNY, 2017), Rose Muzio analyzes how structural and historical …
June 24, 2020
A History of New York in 27 Buildings
In his new book A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis (Bloomsbury, 2019), New York Times correspo…
June 2, 2020
Jewish New York
Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People (NYU Press, 2017) reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethn…
June 3, 2015
The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right
Americans believe they have a number of protections on the job, which are common in other democracies (free speech and privacy, defense against capric…
May 22, 2015
The Fierce Urgency of Now
In recent decades, as Democrats and Republicans have grown more and more polarized ideologically, and gridlock has becoming increasingly standard in C…
February 20, 2015
On Democracy's Doorstep
This year we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a legal revolution with far-reaching cultural, political, and economic impor…
February 13, 2015
Sharing the Prize
Americans rightly think of the civil rights legislation of 1964 and '65 as a social and legal revolution. InSharing the Prize: The Economics of the Ci…
January 2, 2015
Segregation
We often think of South Africa or America when we hear the word 'segregation.' Or -- a popular view -- that social groups have always chosen to live a…
December 20, 2014
Defining Democracy
Daniel Prosterman's new book Defining Democracy:Electoral Reform and the Struggle for Power in New York City (Oxford University Press, 2013) investiga…
November 25, 2014
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings
Scholars interested in the history of the civil rights movement in the North will definitely be interested in Brian Purnell's new book, Fighting Jim C…
November 12, 2014
Americans Against the City
Americans have a paradoxical relationship with cities, Steven Conn argues in his new book,Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth C…
October 31, 2014
Machine Made
For most Americans, Tammany Hall is a symbol of all that was dishonest, corrupt, illiberal, and venal about urban government and the political machine…
October 23, 2014
City of Ambition
"Today, many New Yorkers take the FDR to get to La Guardia," Mason B. Williams jokes in the opening line of his new book City of Ambition: FDR, La Gua…