Flatbush + Main: A Podcast From Brooklyn Historical Society

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 Fire of 1876, and discuss the Gilded Age, municipal reform, class relations, the culture of leisure, and the politics of memory in the 19th century - and today. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 19: The Brooklyn Theatre Fire appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.