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Did you miss one of New-York Historical's recent public programs? Recordings of select programs are available here as streaming audio.
Podcasts of select programs are also available on New-York Historical’s iTunes library. These files can easily be downloaded and played on any Mac, PC or portable device and even burned to a CD.
Presented as a part of the Presidential Historical Commission at New-York Historical Society, Douglas Brinkley, Presidential Historian at the New-York Historical Society and CNN, and Joanne Freeman, professor of history and American studies at Yale University, discuss George Washington’s America.
Duration: 45:48
Historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Carol Berkin discuss the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson.
Duration: 1:18:46
Historian Richard Brookhiser, in conversation with New-York Historical Society’s Vice President for Public Programs, Dale Gregory, follows Alexander Gouverneur Morris, to Paris on the eve of the French Revolution.
Duration: 1:00:08
Financial experts discuss the state of the American economy in the current age.
Duration: 56:57
Legal scholars Jeffrey Rosen and Akhil Reed Amar discuss the only man ever to serve as President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: William Howard Taft.
Duration: 56:00
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New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street)
New York, NY 10024
Phone (212) 873-3400
TTY (212) 873-7489
| Monday – Tuesday | CLOSED |
| Wednesday – Thursday | 11 am – 5 pm |
| Friday | 11 am – 8 pm |
| Saturday – Sunday | 11 am – 5 pm |
