The series begins by identifying the key themes that shaped New York's history: commerce and capitalism, diversity an...

Already established as America's premier port, New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis...

Now the spotlight shines on the growth, glamour and grief of New York during America's giddy postwar "Gilded Age." Ex...

As New York spilled into the new century, the extraordinary interplay of capitalism, democracy and transformation sur...

In this short but dazzling period, New York became the focal point of an extraordinary array of human and cultural en...

In little more than ten years, immense new forces were unleashed in New York, from the Depression itself to the New D...

In exploring the social, economic and physical forces that swept through the city in the post-war period, Episode Sev...

Examines the rise and fall of the World Trade Center -- from its conception in the post-World War II economic boom, t...

Explores the eventful history of New York across the tumultuous first two decades of the 21st century, starting in th...

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