Carson's: The History of a Chicago Shopping Landmark

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Bamberger’s: New Jersey’s Greatest Store

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Woodward & Lothrop: A Store Worthy of the Nation's Capital

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Emporium Department Store

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Abraham and Straus: It's Worth a Trip from Anywhere

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From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store

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20th-Century Retailing in Downtown Grand Rapids

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Center City Philadelphia

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Strouss': Youngstown's Dependable Store

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Hutzler's: Where Baltimore Shops

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Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class

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St. Charles

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Philadelphia: South of Market and East of Broad

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John A. Brown's, Kerr's & Halliburton's: Where Oklahoma City Loved to Shop

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Famous-Barr: St. Louis Shopping at Its Finest

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PEZ: From Austrian Invention to American Icon

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Schuster's & Gimbels: Milwaukee's Beloved Department Stores

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San Francisco's Market Street Railway

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Loveman's: Meet Me Under the Clock

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The Grand Hotels of St. Louis

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Northland Mall

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Under the Clock: The Story of Miller & Rhoads

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Frederick & Nelson

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Kaufmann's: The Big Store in Pittsburgh

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High Spirits: The Legacy Bars of San Francisco

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Toledo's Three Ls: Lamson's, Lion Store and Lasalle's

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The Missoula Mercantile: The Store that Ran an Empire

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Made to Order: The Sheetz Story

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Mr. Selfridge in Chicago: Marshall Fields in the Windy City & the Making of a Merchant Price

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Look to Lazarus: The Big Store

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Class San Francisco: From Ocean Beach to Mission Bay

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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner

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Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett

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A People's History of the United States

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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The Great Reset: And the War for the World

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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

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Why We're Polarized

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Summary of The Fourth Turning: by William Strauss & Neil Howe - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny - A Comprehensive Summary

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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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1776

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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

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The Right Stuff

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The Library Book

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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

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Cool Britannia: Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.

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#371 A Visit to Little Syria: An Immigrant Story: Just south of the World Trade Center district sits the location of a forgotten Manhattan immigrant community. Curious outsiders called it "Little Syria" although the residents themselves would have known it as the Syrian Colony. Starting in the 1880s people from the Middle East began arriving at New York's immigrant processing station -- immigrants from Greater Syria which at that time was a part of the Ottoman Empire.  The Syrians of Old New York were mostly Christians who brought their trades, culture and cuisine to the streets of lower Manhattan. And many headed over to Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn as well, creating another district for Middle Eastern American culture which would outlast the older Manhattan area. Who were these Syrian immigrants who made their home here in New York? Why did they arrive? What were their lives like? And although Little Syria truly is long gone, what buildings remain of this extraordinary district? P

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#345 LaGuardia's War on Pushcarts: The Creation of Essex Street Market: Once upon a time, the streets of the Lower East Side were lined with pushcarts and salespeople haggling with customers over the price of fruits, fish and pickles. Whatever became of them? New York's earliest marketplaces were large and surprisingly well regulated hubs for commerce that kept the city fed. When the city was small, they served the hungry population well. But by the mid-19th century, massive waves of immigration and the necessary expansion of the city meant a lack of affordable food options for the city's poorest residents in overcrowded tenement districts. Then along came the peddler, pushcart vendors who brought bargains of all types -- edible and non-edible -- to neighborhood streets throughout the city. In particular, on the Lower East Side, the pushcarts created bustling makeshift marketplaces.  Many shoppers loved the set-up! But not a certain mayor -- Fiorello LaGuardia, who promised to swee

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#271 Counter Culture: Diners, Automats, and Luncheonettes in New York

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John DeFerrari and Douglas Peter Sefton, "Sixteenth Street NW: Washington, DC's Avenue of Ambitions" (Georgetown UP, 2022)

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A Home for Black History: How a museum tells the story of the US via the lens of the African American experience

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#135 The High Line

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Can a Museum Sell Your Art?: The Berkshire Museum Saga As a Cautionary Tale: In our first full-length episode, we discuss the Berkshire Museum’s controversial decision to sell off 40 works of iconic art from its permanent collection to raise funds to rebrand itself as a science and natural history museum, and build a large...

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#406 How Wall Street Got Its Name: The story of how Wall Street, that short little street in Lower Manhattan, became synonymous with the American financial system and how it got that most interesting name.

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A Wisconsin Hidden Gem: The Frank Lloyd Wright Trail (ft. Susan Kennedy): Let’s hit the road again! And this time, it’s a specific route: the Frank Lloyd Wright Trail. The Frank Lloyd Wright Trail runs between Richland Center and Racine, exploring 11 architectural wonders designed by Wisconsin’s most famous native architect. Eric and Ana welcome Susan Kennedy from the Taliesin Preservation Society into The Cabin to talk about the trail and discuss each designated stop along the way.

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S2E3: Jetpacks and Flying Cars with Chris Nichols: Colin Marshall sits down below the mid-Wilshire offices of Los Angeles magazine with its associate editor Chris Nichols, the man behind the Ask Chris column and blog, former chair of the Los Angeles Conservancy Modern...

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Epi 16 :: Scott Williams :: Author and COO/SVP Sales & Marketing of the Newseum: Featured cocktail recipe: Odds & Ends

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How A Small Business Can Impact a Neighborhood and Influence Its Culture with Cindy Wheeler of Beacon’s Closet

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#183 Orchard Street: Life in the Lower East Side

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#232 The Story of SoHo

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#403 The Fulton Fish Market: History at the Seaport: The Fulton Fish Market in downtown Manhattan was once to seafood what the Chicago stock yards were to the meat industry, the primary place where Americans got fish for their dinner tables. Today its former home is known by more familiar name -- the South Street Seaport. But you can still find ghosts of the market along these historic stone streets.

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California’s Fascinating History: Travel back in time with host Soterios Johnson to get a taste of what the Golden State was like long ago

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David Smiley, “Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013): Most of us have been to strip malls–lines of shops fronted by acres of parking–and most of us have been to closed malls–massive buildings full of shops and surrounded by acres of parking. Fewer of us have been to open malls: small parks ringed by shops...

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Rewind: The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue: At the heart of New York’s Gilded Age — the late 19th-century era of unprecedented American wealth and excess — were families with the names Astor, Waldorf, Schermerhorn, and Vanderbilt, and all would make their homes — and in the case of the Vanderbilts, their great many homes — on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.

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#146 Herald Square

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Everything You Need To Know About Eating At Grand Central Market

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Ghosts and Shadows of Automobile Row, with Ken Liss (episode 180): In the early 20th century, car dealerships, tire companies, parts distributors, and other related businesses lined a section of Commonwealth Avenue in Allston that was known as Automobile Row, a sort of urban forefather of the suburban Auto Mile toda ...

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#165 Ladies' Mile

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#100 - Episode 100

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S4E11: Style Guide with Charles Phoenix: Colin Marshall sits down in Silver Lake with showman, "histo-tainer" and "Ambassador of Americana" Charles Phoenix, curator of vintage midcentury slides and author of books like Southern Californialand, Americana the Beautiful,...

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#399 The Changing Lower East Side: A View From Seward Park: In this special episode, we look at the history of New York City as seen through one corner of the Lower East Side, best known for its landmark Seward Park. Created by the intersections of several streets, it's a place that has gone by many names -- in the past and even today.

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Ep. 352 - Cleveland's Millionaire's Row: Cleveland's Millionaires' Row was the place where the elite built their grand mansions in the early 1900s. Industry was booming and men like Marcus Hanna, Amasa Stone, Samuel Andrews, Charles F. Brush and John D. Rockefeller picked this sixth largest...

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TFP BBQ Ep. 94 - Schulenberg City Market: Before large scale meat packers and fast transport allowed for meat products to be cut offsite and sold by the case, towns were served by local meat markets and butchers who broke down entire animals and large cuts, called primal cuts, into portions ...

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#238/Gas and Glamour: Ashok Sinha + Musical Guests Tape Five with Henrik Wager: Before there were interstates, which was a long long time ago, there were smaller federal highways, often two-lane, that connected the east and west coasts. Route 66 was the most famous.  Along the way, you’d find roadside motels, restaurants,...

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Know Before You Go: Charleston: This week Melissa will transport you to Charleston, South Carolina. Beyond its quaint appearance, cobblestone streets, and pastel-colored historic houses, it is also home to a thriving food scene, charming boutique hotels, and a rich and important history. Surrounded by both pristine beaches and acres of farmland, this southern city is considered one of the most vibrant American tourist destinations. In our latest Know Before You Go episode, Melissa is joined by three people Charleston experts who each have unique ties to the city : Winslow Hastie, President and CEO of the Historic Charleston Foundation; Angela Mack, Executive Director of the Gibbes Museum of Art; and food and culture journalist, Shane Mitchell. If you’re headed to the South Carolina Lowcountry soon, you’ll also want to hear Melissa’s Destination Hacks for Charleston. She shares her recommendations for pinpoints hotels, restaurants, shops, and experiences you’ll want to check out on your