Podcasts by Flatbush + Main: A Podcast from Brooklyn Historical Society

Flatbush + Main: A Podcast from Brooklyn Historical Society

Flatbush + Main is a podcast dedicated to Brooklyn history. In each episode, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia, historians at Brooklyn Historical Society, talk to scholars and use archives and oral history to dive deep into Brooklyn’s past, tying it to the issues facing New Yorkers and Americans today.

Further podcasts by Zaheer Ali & Julie Golia, Brooklyn Historical Society

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Flatbush + Main: A Podcast from Brooklyn Historical Society
Flatbush + Main Episode 36: Making Brooklyn History from 2020-07-22T03:41:33

In Episode 36 of Flatbush + Main, Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia say farewell to Brooklyn Historical Society by revisiting their favorite segments from the podcast's history.

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Flatbush + Main Episode 35: Wandering Brooklyn With Walt Whitman from 2019-06-18T06:00:44

In Episode 35 of Flatbush + Main, we celebrate the 200th birthday of Brooklyn's bard, Walt Whitman. Whitman was a journalist, a poet, a lover, a wanderer, and a Brooklynite. We consider his experie...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 34: Land and Labor in Agricultural Brooklyn from 2019-05-28T18:00:31

In Episode 34 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss Brooklyn’s long farming history, and the complex interplay of power, land, and la...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 33: Queer Coney Island from 2019-04-05T03:00:21

In Episode 33 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia explore Coney Island's queer history.Guest Hugh Ryan joins Julie and Zaheer this episode....

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Flatbush + Main Episode 32: Muslims in Brooklyn from 2019-02-15T23:00:03

In Episode 32 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine the history of Muslims in Brooklyn, drawing on BHS's groundbreaking public and or...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 31: The Blackout of 1977 from 2019-01-15T06:00:30

In Episode 31 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss the infamous Blackout of 1977, the economic and social context that led up to the...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 30: Listening to Puerto Rican Brooklynites from 2018-10-31T22:00:42

In Episode 30 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss Brooklyn Historical Society's Puerto Rican Oral History Project (1973-1975), the ...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 29: Cholera in Brooklyn from 2018-09-28T17:30:18

In Episode 29 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, host Zaheer Ali and guest-host Erin Wuebker, fellow BHS historian, discuss the impact of cholera on Brooklyn, which led to th...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 28: The New York City Draft Riots from 2018-08-30T06:00:08

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 domesti...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 27: Factories in Brooklyn from 2018-07-31T23:00:43

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 a...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 26: The Police Killing of Arthur Miller Jr. from 2018-06-13T16:00:21

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, an...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 25: Brooklyn’s Pioneering Women Doctors from 2018-05-15T02:00:24

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 a...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 24: Brooklyn’s Revolutionary War Prison Ships from 2018-04-11T15:00:29

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 ...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 23: Revisiting Brooklyn Historical Society DUMBO from 2018-03-16T22:00:49

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 ex...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 22: Black Businesses in Brooklyn from 2018-02-14T06:00:25

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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Flatbush + Main Episode 21: Doing History from 2018-01-04T18:55:35

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 consti...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 20: Memories of Old Williamsburgh from 2017-12-05T18:00:42

In Episode 20 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia use one seemingly inconsequential manuscript collection about Williamsburg, to explore th...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 19: The Brooklyn Theatre Fire from 2017-11-03T12:00:14

In Episode 19 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine an important but long-forgotten tragedy in Brooklyn's past: the Brooklyn Theatre ...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 18: Hurricane Sandy, Five Years Later from 2017-10-03T06:00:27

In Episode 18 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia consider what it means to remember and document Hurricane Sandy five years after the stor...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 17: Brooklyn’s West Indian Carnival from 2017-08-30T06:00:38

In Episode 17 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine the meanings and global roots of a time-honored tradition in Brooklyn, the West I...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 16: Living in Fort Greene from 2017-08-02T06:00:10

In Episode 16 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine the many identities of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Greene. For complete sho...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 15: Welcome to BHS DUMBO from 2017-07-03T16:37:25

In Episode 15 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia dive into the history of Empire Stores, the historic 19th-century waterfront warehouse th...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 14: Malcolm X in Brooklyn from 2017-05-19T17:00:33

In Episode 14 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia reflect on Malcolm X's enduring influence on the borough of Brooklyn. For complete show n...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 13: A Year of Podcasting Brooklyn History from 2017-04-27T18:49:20

In Episode 13 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia celebrate the podcast's first birthday by looking back on the year's most memorable segme...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 12: Women Photographers, Framing Brooklyn from 2017-03-29T06:00:14

In Episode 12 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine the work of a group of remarkable female photographers who have taken Brooklyn as...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 11: W.E.B. Du Bois in Brooklyn from 2017-02-24T05:40:42

In Episode 11 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia explore the last decade of the life of iconic Civil Rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois, when he...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 10 Bonus Segment: Voices from the NYC Women’s March from 2017-02-07T21:19:29

This month, Flatbush + Main listeners get a bonus segment of "Voices of Brooklyn!" On January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands of people, including countless Brooklynites, took part in the Women's M...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 10: Civic Responsibility, Then and Now – Recorded Live! from 2017-01-24T16:16

Episode 10 of Flatbush + Main is a special one - it was recorded live on January 11, 2017 in BHS's beautiful Othmer Library. In a public program called "Civic Responsibility, Then and Now: A View f...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 09: Food and Identity, Brooklyn Style from 2016-12-20T15:00

In Episode 09 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia dig into their most delicious topic yet: food and identity in Brooklyn.

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Flatbush + Main Episode 08: Brooklyn’s Veterans from 2016-11-22T20:10:06

In Episode 08 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia explore the legacy of veterans from Brooklyn and beyond, and consider the ways that histo...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 07: Brooklyn’s Women Politicians from 2016-10-27T17:49:52

In less than a week, Americans will go to the polls to choose a new president - and for the first time, one of the major party candidates is a woman. In episode 07 of Brooklyn Historical Society's ...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 06: School Segregation in Brooklyn from 2016-09-29T06:21:28

In episode 06 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia explore the complicated relationship between race, power, and policy in Brooklyn's educat...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 05: Whose Crown Heights? from 2016-08-24T06:00:34

In episode 05 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia do a deep dive into the history and future of Crown Heights, a neighborhood in central Br...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 04: Hip Hop in Brooklyn from 2016-07-27T08:25:08

In episode 04 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine the history and evolution of hip hop in Brooklyn. Joined by Wes Jackson, founder ...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 03: Queering Brooklyn Spaces from 2016-06-21T15:16:29

In episode 03 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia tackle the history of queer spaces in Brooklyn. We sit down with curator and writer Hugh ...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 02: Brooklyn’s Working Waterfront from 2016-05-24T18:58:58

In the past several years, Brooklyn's waterfront has transformed into a high-value, celebrated space lined with bucolic parks and new developments. In Episode 02 of Brooklyn Historical Society's po...

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Flatbush + Main Episode 01: Histories of Waste in Brooklyn from 2016-04-24T18:47:27

In Episode 01 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main tackles one of the most pressing topics shaping Brooklyn's past and future: waste.

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Flatbush + Main Episode 00: Welcome to Flatbush + Main, a podcast from Brooklyn Historical Society from 2016-04-24T18:40:24

Brooklyn Historical Society is excited to launch Flatbush + Main, a monthly podcast dedicated to Brooklyn's many-layered history and its dynamic present. Each week you'll hear co-hosts Zaheer Ali a...

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