For the Ages: A History Podcast
Hosted by David M Rubenstein · The New York Historical
4.6from 430 ratings
- 172
- Episodes
- 54
- Transcribed
- 430
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 6M
- YouTube views
About For the Ages: A History Podcast
Explore the rich and complex history of the United States and beyond. Produced by The New York Historical, host David M. Rubenstein engages the nation’s foremost historians and creative thinkers on a wide range of topics, including presidential biography, the nation’s founding, and the people who have shaped the American story. Learn more at nyhistory.org (https://www.nyhistory.org).
- Publisher
- The New York Historical
- Category
- education · government · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Jun 2021
- Latest episode
- 14 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
54 of 172 episodes have a transcript.
14 Sept 2026
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
24 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
America’s Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History
10 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
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America’s Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History
Published 24 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] For me, I'm sure this is true for a lot of people, particularly in the North. It was Civil War, Civil War, Civil War and history class. And then it was and then Reconstruction happened. And then post Reconstruction, we never really learned about the things in Reconstruction and why Reconstruction ended. And there were lots of reasons. But one of the most important reasons was it goes back to this Colfax massacre, because The federal government was trying to find a way to find justice for these 150 mostly black men who were murdered. They knew that there was not really a chance that the courts in the state of Louisiana were going to convict these people. […]
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- Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Dana Bash
- David Fisher
- Harold Holzer
- Marie Arana
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- YouTube views
- 5,960,932
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 382 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 48 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100
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- Quality
- 75
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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David M Rubenstein host the show. Published by The New York Historical.
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