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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.
Acclaimed children’s author Steve Sheinkin (Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War) talks with Robert Ellsberg who, at 13, helped his father Daniel Ellsberg photocopy the Pentagon Papers so they could be distributed to the press. Using footage from the documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America, Sheinkin and Ellsberg help families understand one of the biggest scandals of the 20th century, the "leak" that sparked them all.
Duration: 01:28:04
Best-selling author, scholar, and journalist Walter Isaacson and American philanthropist David M. Rubsenstein, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, discuss Isaacson’s life and career exploring the biographies of history’s geniuses from Leonardo da Vinci to Steve Jobs. Presented as part of New-York Historical's annual Weekend with History: Palm Beach.
Historians discuss the dynamic period of the later 19th century, a time when American society was divided on ethnic, racial, religious, economic, and political lines.
Duration: 56:52
Historian Niall Ferguson explores how networks—guilds and families, clans and cabals—have cooperated throughout history to shape the ever-changing world.
Duration: 54:58
Celebrated music historian Leon Botstein and renowned curator Barbara Haskell join Dale Gregory, New-York Historical’s Vice President for Public Programs, for a conversation on World War II and American Art.
Duration: 58:58
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