Flatbush + Main: A Podcast from Brooklyn Historical Society Podcast
1) Flatbush + Main Episode 36: Making Brooklyn History
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.
2) Flatbush + Main Episode 35: Wandering Brooklyn With Walt Whitman
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 experience...Show More
3) Flatbush + Main Episode 34: Land and Labor in Agricultural Brooklyn
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 labor...Show More
4) Flatbush + Main Episode 33: Queer Coney Island
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. Hu...Show More
5) Flatbush + Main Episode 32: Muslims in Brooklyn
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 oral ...Show More
6) Flatbush + Main Episode 31: The Blackout of 1977
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 ev...Show More
7) Flatbush + Main Episode 30: Listening to Puerto Rican Brooklynites
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 ins...Show More
8) Flatbush + Main Episode 29: Cholera in Brooklyn
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 i...Show More
9) 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 u...Show More
10) Flatbush + Main Episode 27: Factories in Brooklyn
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 ...Show More