The New York Historical Society produces for the ages a history podcast.

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

In conversation on a wide range of subjects including presidential biography, the nation's founding,

and the people who have shaped the American story.

Enter the world of special operations with Admiral William H. McRaven

and learn about his career in the Navy Seals and his part in the capture of Saddam Hussein.

The new book by Karmut Roosevelt III, the nation that never was, reconstructs the common story we tell about America

that our fundamental values as a country were stated in the Declaration of Independence,

fought for in the Revolution and made law in the Constitution.

You'll hear Mr. Roosevelt argue for a reinterpretation of this story.

And as Americans learned in recent years, the peaceful transfer of power from one US president to another

is the most delicate and hazardous period in the entire political cycle.

Listen to David Marcek discuss the history, complexity, and current best practices associated with this most vital of democratic institutions.

That's for the ages a history podcast available on Apple and Spotify.

On Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, sits a most unusual storefront.

A cabinet of curiosities filled not with natural wonders but strange and marvelous man-made objects.

This is the city reliquary containing the passions of New York collectors,

accumulations of items that by themselves might go unnoticed but united on crowded shelves and in glass displays arranged in a most bewildering fashion.

These New York treasures evoke the magic of nostalgia from old seltzer bottles to the countless duplications of the Statue of Liberty.

And it was here on one dark Wednesday evening that I met up with cultural historian Kyle Supli and was introduced to the most colorful cabinet of all,

the souvenirs of two strange and special events in New York history.

Rendered in lights, in fabric, in tin and steel, and in glorious molded plastic.

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