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Thomas F. Rzeznik, "A Monument of Charity: St. Vincent’s Hospital and Catholic Healt…

8/11/2026 • 33 min

St. Vincent's Hospital began with a simple, but radical mission: to care for all those in need regardless of race, creed, or financial means. For more than 160 years, the hospital carried out that work, serving notables and the nameless alike, from impoverished immigrants and those stricken by devastating nineteenth-century epidemics to AIDS patients and the vic… Play episode

William Whyte, "The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood" (Harv…
David N. Gellman, "Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family…
Stefan Al, "Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call H…
Yana Skorobogatov, "Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Unio…
Max Perry Mueller, "Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Foun…
Matthew Pinsker, "Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln" (Nor…
Blair L.M. Kelley, "Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Eman…
Emily Sneff, "When the Declaration of Independence Was News" (Oxford UP, 2…
Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sov…
Vaneesa Cook, "Empire and Liberty: The Tied Histories of Two American Land…
Virginia McGee Richards, "The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resi…
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Parallel Journeys: Eurasian History Through Trav…
Murat C. Yildiz, "The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, a…
Steven K. Green, "American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethou…
Anna Lively, "Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923" (O…
Meredith Gamer, "City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Cent…
Ashton Lazarus, "Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japa…
Lily Kelting, "Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional Foods" (UN…
Michael Patrick Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Court Cabine…
Nick Yablon, "From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C. G. Hine's 1905 Pho…
Ian J. McNiven, "Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Ri…
Kelly M. Duke Bryant, "Negotiating Childhood: French Colonialism and Afric…
Brendan Greeley, "The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Power…
Richard Bell, "The American Revolution and the Fate of the World" (Penguin…
Martin Fitzgerald, "The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk about…
Robert G Parkinson, "Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror o…
Jeffrey A. Marx, "Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil W…
Rod Phillips, "Cats: A History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Peter C. Mancall, "Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c.…
Paul Helseth and David P. Smith eds., "New Perspectives on Old Princeton, …
Daniel Rood, "In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantatio…
Gullah-Geechee Diasporas: Knowledge, Culture, and Black Lowcountry Legacies
Lauren Duval, "The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupati…
Stephen Robertson, "Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Vi…
Ted Powell, "Churchill and the Crown" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Xian Aubin Wang, "Islam and Maoism in Southern Yunnan: State Violence and …
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys
Jonathan Schneer, "Nine Days in May: The General Strike Of 1926" (Oxford U…
Kate Dannies, "Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empir…
Chiara Formichi, "Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernit…
Christopher de Bellaigue, "The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King" (Bodley…
Fred S. Naiden, "Railroaded: A Motorman’s Story of the New York City Subwa…
John Kapusta, "Self-Realization Nation: How Artists of the Creative Counte…
Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" …
Andy Byford, "Science of the Child in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russi…
Fabio Lanza, "Urban Revolution: People's Communes in Beijing" (Cambridge U…
Sharron Wilkins Conrad, "The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, …
Michelle Chase and Isabella Cosse eds., "The Cuban Revolution and the New …

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