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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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Flatbush + Main Episode 23: Revisiting Brooklyn Historical Society DUMBO
In Episode 23 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia revisit Brooklyn Historical Society DUMBO to celebrate the opening of its new longterm exhibition, Waterfront.
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Tagged Archives, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Historical Society, DUMBO, exhibition, Flatbush + Main, Flatbush and Main, Flatbush+Main, FlatbushandMain, Francisco Pratts, History, Julie Golia, Katy Lasdow, Oral History, Pino Deserio, Roberta Davenport, waterfront, Zaheer Ali
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Flatbush + Main Episode 22: Black Businesses in Brooklyn
In Episode 22 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine the legacy of black-owned businesses in Brooklyn.
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Tagged African American, Archives, Black History Month, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Historical Society, Business, Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, Elizabeth Gloucester, Errol Louis, Flatbush + Main, Flatbush and Main, Flatbush+Main, FlatbushandMain, Frederick Douglass, Freeman Murrow, History, James Gloucester, John Brown, Mark Winston Griffith, Oral History, Prithi Kanakamedala, Siloam Presbyterian Church
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Flatbush + Main Episode 21: Doing History
In Episode 21 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia dig into what we do at Brooklyn Historical Society: engaging our many visitors and constituents in the process of doing history.
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Tagged Archives, Auctioin, Bed-Stuy, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bet, BHS DUMBO, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Historical Society, Civil Rights, DUMBO, Emily Potter-Ndiaye, exhibition, Flatbush + Main, Flatbush and Main, Flatbush+Main, FlatbushandMain, Freedom, Julie Golia, Mary DeSaussure Sobers, Museums, Oral History, Podcast, slavery, Sports, Unfreedom, waterfront, Zaheer Ali
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Flatbush + Main Episode 20: Memories of Old Williamsburgh
In Episode 20 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia use one seemingly inconsequential manuscript collection to explore themes of memory and history-making over many generations. In 1915, Brooklynite Francis Morrell wrote a small tract called “Recollections of Old Williamsburgh.” This self-published work of genealogy reminds us that historical writing tells us just as much about the time that it was written as about the time period it purports to study.
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Tagged African Americans, Archives, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Historical Society, Elizabeth Guanill, Flatbush + Main, Flatbush and Main, Flatbush+Main, FlatbushandMain, Francis Morrell, History, Julie Golia, Nostalgia, Old Williamsburgh, Oral History, Podcast, Puerto Ricans, race, Racism, Williamsburg, Williamsburgh, Zaheer Ali
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