Flatbush + Main: A Podcast From Brooklyn Historical Society

In the final episode of Flatbush + Main, Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia revisit their favorite segments from the podcast. The post Flatbush + Main Episode 36: Making Brooklyn History appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

In Episode 35 of Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia trace Walt Whitman's footsteps around Brooklyn. The post Flatbush + Main Episode 35: Wandering Brooklyn With Walt Whitman appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

In Episode 34 of Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss Brooklyn's long farming history. The post Flatbush + Main Episode 34: Land and Labor in Agricultural Brooklyn appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

In Episode 33 of Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia and guest Hugh Ryan explore Coney Island's queer history. The post Flatbush + Main Episode 33: Queer Coney Island appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

In Episode 32 of Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine the history of Muslims in Brooklyn. The post Flatbush + Main Episode 32: Muslims in Brooklyn appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

In Episode 31 of Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss the infamous Blackout of 1977 The post Flatbush + Main Episode 31: The Blackout of 1977 appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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 institution's first oral history collection, which resulted in over 80 interviews with narrators born as early as the 1880s. They situate this landmark undertaking in the social and intellectual developments of the 1960s and 1970s, from the Civil Rights Movement to the rise of Ethnic Studies programs. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 30: Listening to Puerto Rican Brooklynites appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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 the illness and death of thousands of residents in the 19th century. Zaheer and Erin consider how epidemics of cholera were both symptoms of the city’s tremendous growth and change in this era, and catalysts for Brooklyn to develop basic infrastructure we associate with a modern city. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 29: Cholera in Brooklyn appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 28: The New York City Draft Riots appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 27: Factories in Brooklyn appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 26: The Police Killing of Arthur Miller Jr. appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 25: Brooklyn’s Pioneering Women Doctors appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 24: Brooklyn’s Revolutionary War Prison Ships appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 23: Revisiting Brooklyn Historical Society DUMBO appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 22: Black Businesses in Brooklyn appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 21: Doing History appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 20: Memories of Old Williamsburgh appeared first on 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.

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 storm devastated many parts of Brooklyn. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 18: Hurricane Sandy, Five Years Later appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.

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 Indian Carnival. For complete show notes, The post Flatbush + Main Episode 17: Brooklyn’s West Indian Carnival appeared first on Brooklyn Historical Society.