Listen to For The Ages, the New York Historical Society's podcast hosted by David M. Rubinstein.

Historian Leslie M Harris joins David for In the Shadow of Slavery, African Americans in New York City, 1626 to 1863, where they'll

trace the early African American experience in New York from the arrival of the first slaves into the city in the 1620s

to the devastating New York City draft riots in 1863.

In popular memory, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the quintessential political natural.

However, in becoming FDR the personal crisis that made a president,

journalist and author Jonathan Darman argues that this political acumen was a hard-earned result of Roosevelt's seven-year journey through illness and recovery from polio.

And in Latino land, a portrait of America's largest and least

understood minority. Marie Arana, inaugural literary director of the Library of

Congress, joins David to discuss this extremely diverse

set of Americans with a focus on the broad range of racial, political, and

historical backgrounds of the nation's fastest growing minority group.

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

We are so excited because Greg and I are going to the Netherlands for a very special

Bowery Boys mini-ies marking the 400th anniversary of the Dutch first

settling in North America in the region that today we call New York City.

They would settle at the tip of Manhattan and call the place New Amsterdam.

So to kick off our epic mini-series, today we'll be talking with the author and researcher whose 2004 book The Island at the Center of

the World revitalized the subject of New York City history and reintroduced the Dutch roots of American history to a whole

new generation of readers Russell Shorto. Once I found a central conflict between Peter Stuyvesant, who was the last and most effective

director of the colony, and Adrian Vanderedong, who became sort of this opposition party leader.

And you realize, okay, here are two different visions

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