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🗓️ 19 December 2022
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0:00.0 | You know what's better than listening to history that doesn't suck? |
0:02.5 | Experiencing it live from New York City. |
0:04.8 | Join me, Professor Jackson, under the lights for storytelling with video and live musicians. |
0:09.3 | This show won't be recorded for the podcast and can only the experienced live-in person |
0:13.9 | or view live stream. |
0:14.9 | Shows are January 14th, 15th and 16th. |
0:17.6 | Go to htdspodcast.com and click the live-in NYC link for more info and tickets. |
0:23.0 | That's htdspodcast.com to experience history live. |
0:27.0 | History that of course doesn't suck. |
0:30.3 | History that doesn't suck is a bi-weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched |
0:33.8 | hard-hitting survey of American history through entertained stories. |
0:36.6 | If you'd like to support htds or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon.com |
0:41.9 | forward slash history that doesn't suck. |
0:45.7 | It's an unspecified night, sometime in the late 1880s. |
0:55.0 | And the nearly 40-year-old Danish immigrant, Jacob Rees, is walking along Mulberry Street |
1:00.3 | in New York City. |
1:01.9 | This is a less affluent neighborhood. |
1:04.4 | To be blunt, it's a slum. |
1:06.8 | And it's unique because nearly everyone here isn't only poor, but blind. |
1:11.4 | Hence it's nickname, Blind Man's Alley. |
1:14.5 | And Jacob has come here to document these hard-lived lives with his camera. |
1:18.8 | Now, it's a bit dark out for photos, true, but the photographer has gotten his hands on |
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