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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#430 The Story of Flushing: Queens History, Old and New

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Few areas of the United States have as endured as long as Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood with almost over 375 years of history and an evolving cultural landscape that includes Quakers, trees, Hollywood films, world fairs, and new Asian immigration.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Check out the New York Historical Society's fascinating podcast for the ages, hosted by David M. Rubinstein.

0:07.0

Historian Anne E. Marshall joins David to discuss her new book creating a Confederate Kentucky,

0:14.0

The Lost Cause and Civil War memory in a border state.

0:17.8

Kentucky fought alongside the Union for the entirety of the Civil War,

0:22.2

yet in the decades that followed,

0:24.2

the state embraced many political and cultural

0:27.1

traditions of the Confederacy.

0:29.5

Marshall breaks down how and why

0:31.7

Kentuckians constructed this historically

0:34.4

revisionist narrative that shaped the trajectory of their state for the next 60

0:38.9

years. In the two-part Elizabeth Taylor, the grit and glamour of an icon, author and journalist Kate Anderson

0:45.8

Bower delves into the first ever authorized biography of the 20th century's most famous movie star,

0:52.4

and Candice Millard, author of 20th century's most famous movie star.

0:52.6

And Candice Millard, author of River of the Gods,

0:56.2

genius, courage, and betrayal in the search

0:59.0

for the source of the Nile,

1:00.6

joins David to discuss her exhilarating and at times harrowing account of two men's search for the

1:07.0

headwaters of the Nile River.

1:09.0

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

1:15.0

The Bowery Boys episode 4.30,

1:17.0

the story of Flushing,

1:19.0

a history of Queens, old and new.

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