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NBN Episodes hosted by Peter:

Robert Snyder, "All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York" (Columbia UP, 2019)

May 4, 2021

All the Nations Under Heaven

Frederick M. Binder, David M. Reimers, and Robert W. Snyder
Hosted by Peter Aigner

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…

Edgardo Meléndez, "Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionary Exiles in Late Nineteenth-Century New York" (Centro Press, 2019)

April 30, 2021

Patria

Edgardo Meléndez
Hosted by Peter Aigner

Edgardo Meléndez's book Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Nineteenth Century New York (Centro Press, 2019) examines the activities and ideals of…

Kara M. Schlichting, "New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

March 9, 2021

New York Recentered

Kara Murphy Schlichting
Hosted by Peter Aigner

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…

Rose Muzio, "Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York" (SUNY, 2017)

February 16, 2021

Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity

Rose Muzio
Hosted by Peter Aigner

In Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York (SUNY, 2017), Rose Muzio analyzes how structural and historical …

Sam Roberts, "A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

June 24, 2020

A History of New York in 27 Buildings

Sam Roberts
Hosted by Peter Aigner

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…

Deborah Dash Moore, "Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People" (NYU Press, 2017)

June 2, 2020

Jewish New York

Deborah Dash Moore
Hosted by Peter Aigner

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…

Sophia Z. Lee, "The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right" (Cambridge UP, 2014)

June 3, 2015

The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right

Sophia Z. Lee
Hosted by Peter Aigner

Americans believe they have a number of protections on the job, which are common in other democracies (free speech and privacy, defense against capric…

Julian E. Zelizer, "The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society" (Penguin Press, 2015)

May 22, 2015

The Fierce Urgency of Now

Julian E. Zelizer
Hosted by Peter Aigner

In recent decades, as Democrats and Republicans have grown more and more polarized ideologically, and gridlock has becoming increasingly standard in C…

J. Douglas Smith, "On Democracy's Doorstep" (Hill and Wang, 2014)

February 20, 2015

On Democracy's Doorstep

J. Douglas Smith
Hosted by Peter Aigner

This year we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a legal revolution with far-reaching cultural, political, and economic impor…

Gavin Wright, "Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South" (Harvard UP, 2013)

February 13, 2015

Sharing the Prize

Gavin Wright
Hosted by Peter Aigner

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…

Carl H. Nightingale, "Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities" (U Chicago Press, 2012)

January 2, 2015

Segregation

Carl H. Nightingale
Hosted by Peter Aigner

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…

Daniel O. Prosterman, "Defining Democracy: Electoral Reform and the Struggle for Power in New York City" (Oxford UP, 2013)

December 20, 2014

Defining Democracy

Daniel O. Prosterman
Hosted by Peter Aigner

Daniel Prosterman's new book Defining Democracy:Electoral Reform and the Struggle for Power in New York City (Oxford University Press, 2013) investiga…

Brian Purnell, "Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings" (UP of Kentucky, 2014)

November 25, 2014

Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings

Brian Purnell
Hosted by Peter Aigner

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…

Steven Conn, "Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century" (Oxford UP, 2014)

November 12, 2014

Americans Against the City

Steven Conn
Hosted by Peter Aigner

Americans have a paradoxical relationship with cities, Steven Conn argues in his new book,Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth C…

Terry Golway, "Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics" (Liveright, 2014)

October 31, 2014

Machine Made

Terry Golway
Hosted by Peter Aigner

For most Americans, Tammany Hall is a symbol of all that was dishonest, corrupt, illiberal, and venal about urban government and the political machine…

Mason B. Williams, "City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York" (Norton, 2013)

October 23, 2014

City of Ambition

Mason B. Williams
Hosted by Peter Aigner

"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…