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 Center for Brooklyn History.

Wandering Brooklyn with Walt Whitman

Jun 18th, 2019 40m 32s

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 Center for Brooklyn History.

Land and Labor in Agricultural Brooklyn

May 28th, 2019 52m 45s

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 Center for Brooklyn History.

Queer Coney Island

Apr 5th, 2019 54m 29s

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 Center for Brooklyn History.

Muslims in Brooklyn

Feb 15th, 2019 40m 11s

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 Center for Brooklyn History.

The Blackout of 1977

Jan 15th, 2019 41m 40s

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

Listening to Puerto Rican Brooklynites

Oct 31st, 2018 49m 33s

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, wh

Cholera in Brooklyn

Sep 28th, 2018 1h 1m

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 i

The New York City Draft Riots

Aug 30th, 2018 1h 1m

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

Factories in Brooklyn

Jul 31st, 2018 52m 3s

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 th

The Police Killing of Arthur Miller Jr.

Jun 13th, 2018 51m 26s

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

Brooklyn's Pioneering Women Doctors

May 15th, 2018 59m 56s

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 Revolutionary War Prison Ships

Apr 11th, 2018 1h 4m

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 occupat

Revisiting Brooklyn Historical Society DUMBO

Mar 16th, 2018 37m 55s

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

Black Businesses in Brooklyn

Feb 14th, 2018 53m 15s

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 Busines

Doing History

Jan 4th, 2018 52m 52s

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 co

Memories of Old Williamsburgh

Dec 5th, 2017 48m 3s

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, B

The Brooklyn Theatre Fire

Nov 3rd, 2017 59m 54s

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, munic

Hurricane Sandy, Five Years Later

Oct 3rd, 2017 44m 24s

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 comp

Brooklyn's West Indian Carnival

Aug 30th, 2017 54m 15s

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

Living in Fort Greene

Aug 2nd, 2017 47m 1s

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 show notes, go to www.brooklynhistory.org/flatbus

Welcome to BHS DUMBO

Jul 3rd, 2017 47m 24s

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 that is now the home of BHS's new satellite museu

Malcolm X in Brooklyn

May 19th, 2017 55m 2s

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 notes, go to brooklynhistory.org/flatbush-main

A Year of Podcasting Brooklyn History

Apr 27th, 2017 49m 33s

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 segments and guests. For complete show notes, go to

Women Photographers, Framing Brooklyn

Mar 29th, 2017 43m 7s

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 their subject. Featured are an interview with