Check out the New York Historical Society's podcast for the ages with host David M. Rubenstein

talking to the nation's foremost historians and creative thinkers on a wide range of historical topics

including presidential biography, the nation's founding and the people who have shaped America.

The post-World War II economic boom came at a high cost. Smog made breathing difficult in cities,

the oceans were dying, wilderness vanished, and species went extinct at alarming rates.

Kira claimed historian Douglas Brinkley, chronicle how Rachel Carson's 1962 book

Silent Spring, launched in eco-revolution and inspired the rise of environmental activism.

In the United States, World War II was often regarded as a time of unrivaled national unity

and optimism, but in reality this traumatic period tested the American resolve in the most

significant way since the Civil War. In Year of Parallel, America in 1942, author and historian

Tracy Campbell discussed how our nation rose to the occasion. She examines the critical year of

1942 when a series of setbacks and challenges in the war threatened to splinter the nation from within.

That's For the Ages, available on Apple and Spotify.

Episode 409 of the Bowery Boys, the great New York City pizza tour. Hey, it's the Bowery Boys.

Hey.

Hi there, welcome to the Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young.

And this is Tom Myers, and today we're going to be

cheesier than we normally are on the show, Greg, because today we are looking at the history of pizza.

Pizza pizza.

Pizza, it brings us all together.

You know, when tourists come to town, at the top of their list is a visit to one of New York City's

most famous pizzerias. But New Yorkers love their pizza too, from the corner slice joint,

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