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The Historical Society of the New York Courts Podcast series shines a light on New York’s legal history through the perspective of the State’s courts.
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A thoughtful portrait of Albert Bard, where landmark law, private loyalty, and civic preservation converge.
Albert Bard comes through as a preservation figure whose public work was inseparable from the private loyalties that shaped him. Adrian Untermyer's conversation with Anthony C.
A serious look at the 1876 count, where electoral math, racist terror, and constitutional duty collide.
The 1876 presidential election is treated as more than a disputed tally. Helen Friedman leads Roy Morris, Jr., Manisha Sinha, and Jerry Goldfeder through the fight over Samuel Tilden, Rutherford B.
A judge traces the collision between Emma Goldman's life, a Polish immigrant's resolve, and turn-of-the-century New York history.
Richard Dollinger's Judicial Notice episode finds a sharp story in an unlikely crossing: the private hardship that shaped Emma Goldman's public politics, and the chain of events that brought a Polish immigrant named Kolzig into her orbit.
A Greenwich Village preservation fight asks what happens when zoning outlives the public purpose behind it.
Historic preservation comes through here as a civic fight with real legal and financial consequences, centered on Andrew Berman and Village Preservation.
Tilden's reform career meets the machinery of New York corruption.
Samuel Jones Tilden is presented as a reform-minded public figure whose career ran through the state assembly, the governor's office, and the contested election of 1876.
Crime history with legal teeth.
Landmark trials, retold objection by objection.
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HSoftheNYCourts Podcast uses Helen Friedman, Roy Morris Jr., Manisha Sinha, and Jerry Goldfeder to examine the disputed 1876 election between Samuel J.
This Historical Society of the New York Courts episode follows Judge Richard Dollinger's article on John Hazel and Emma Goldman across 60 years of Western New York change.
["Wrecking Ball from the Historical Society of the New York Courts opens with Andrew Berman being treated as the \"Cher of preservation\" in a conversation about Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo.", "Berman says he has run Village Preservation for about 22 years after nearly nine years working for Tom Duane in the City Council and State Senate, and he links that path to art history and lifelong New York roots.", "He describes Village Preservation as a group that handles landmark designation, zoning, small-business retention, parks, public spaces, research, online maps, tours, and oral histories with Jane Jacobs and Jonas Mekas.", "He uses Westbeth, St.
Samuel Jones Tilden is introduced through the Columbia County gravesite inscription "I still trust the people," alongside Judge Helen Friedman's note that he won the actual popular-vote majority.
This episode explores the intersection of historic preservation, law, and New York history through a discussion about Empire State Plaza with a retired bankruptcy judge.
This episode revisits the Mendez v.
An interview with Professor Mary Noe about her article on the Harry Thaw murder trial, set in the Gilded Age of New York.
This episode discusses the history of the High Line in New York City, its transformation from a rail line to a public park, and the legal and preservation efforts involved.
A podcast episode introducing a new series where the host interviews authors of articles about Justice Benjamin Cardozo for the Historical Society of the New York Courts.