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Flatbush + Main Episode 28: The New York City Draft Riots
In Episode 28 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss the impact on Brooklyn of the 1863 New York City draft riots, the largest domestic uprising in American history after the Civil War itself, resulting in the death of hundreds of Black New Yorkers. Zaheer and Julie consider the complex–and sometimes violent–racial dynamics that made Brooklyn a place of both refuge and danger for its Black residents during this perilous moment.
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Flatbush + Main Episode 27: Factories in Brooklyn (July 2018)
In Episode 27 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia are joined by guest Joshua B. Freeman, author of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World. They consider the impact of factories on Brooklyn’s social and economic history, and discuss the experiences of factory workers that worked and lived in Brooklyn.
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Flatbush + Main Episode 26: The Police Killing of Arthur Miller Jr.
In Episode 26 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss the tragic 1978 killing of Crown Heights resident Arthur Miller Jr. by police, and consider his important legacy as a community leader, activist, and businessman.
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Tagged Amaka Okechukwu, Archives, Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller Jr., Brooklyn, Brooklyn Historical Society, Chokehold, Crown Heights, Flatbush + Main, Flatbush and Main, Flatbush+Main, FlatbushandMain, Florence Miller, History, Julie Golia, New Muse, Oral History, Police Killing, Zaheer Ali
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Flatbush + Main Episode 25: Brooklyn’s Pioneering Women Doctors
In Episode 25 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia, joined by fellow BHS historian Erin Wuebker, explore the fascinating history of gender and medicine in Brooklyn and learn about some of Brooklyn’s pioneering female physicians.
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Tagged Archives, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Historical Society, Erin Wuebker, Flatbush+Main, FlatbushandMain, History, Josephine English, Julie Golia, Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, Oral History, Podcast, Public Health, Sick, Susan McKinnedy Steward, Zaheer Ali
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Flatbush + Main Episode 24: Brooklyn’s Revolutionary War Prison Ships
In Episode 24 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss a Revolutionary War tragedy: the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans inside prison ships during the British wartime occupation of New York from 1776 to 1783.
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Tagged AIDS, Alice Terson, Archives, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Historical Society, Flatbush + Main, Flatbush and Main, Flatbush+Main, FlatbushandMain, Fort Greene, History, HIV, Julie Golia, Oral History, Podcast, Prison, Prison Ship, Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, Public Health, Revolutionary War, Thomas Dring, Zaheer Ali
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