The New York Historical Society recently introduced a must-listened

to podcast called For the Ages, exploring the rich and complex history of the United States.

Post David M. Rubenstein engages the nation's foremost historians and creative thinkers

and conversation on a wide range of topics including presidential biography, the nation's

founding, and the people who have shaped the American story.

These conversations have included Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Carro offering a first-hand

perspective on his writing process, Ron Cherno, on his biography of Hamilton, and his

involvement with the musical.

Award-winning author Lillian Faterman discussing the history of the LGBTQ plus civil rights

movement which continues to this day.

H.W. Brands on John Brown and Lincoln, the zealot, and the emancipator, Joanne Freeman

on violence in Congress leading up to the Civil War through the eyes of journalist Benjamin

Brown French and New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker on the life

and legacy of James Baker, one of the most influential power brokers in American history.

That's For the Ages from David M. Rubenstein and the New York Historical Society, available

on Apple and Spotify, new episodes every week.

Mrs. Parker was not only the widiest writer of the jazz age, she was also obscenely morbid.

Her most successful verse often veered into somber moods, loaded with thoughts of self-destruction

or riot despair.

Her talents rose at a very receptive moment for such a dour outlook, after the First World

War, and right as the country went dry.

For the Parker's greatest lines are as bracing and intoxicating as a hard spirit.

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