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.

Here acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley, chronicle how Rachel Carson's 1962 book, Silent Spring,

launched an 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 peril, America in 1942, author and historian

Tracy Campbell discusses how our nation rose to the occasion 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. The Bowry Boys episode 410, The Roblings,

the family who built the Brooklyn Bridge. Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.

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

And this is Tom Myers and today we're paying a visit to one of the great icons of New York City.

The East River Bridge, otherwise known as the Brooklyn Bridge.

But here's a little riddle for you. Today's show is not strictly about the Brooklyn Bridge,

which took more than 13 years to complete and opened 140 years ago on May 24th 1883. A generation

of New Yorkers and Proclinites grew up watching its towers slowly rise over the East River

and its suspension cables span out to support a road which would link the two great cities.

Thousands of people were employed in some way during its construction and more than two dozen

people died and many others were injured while building it. The bridge represented the rise

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