Empire State Engagements
with Dr. Robert Chiles
Episode One: Dr. Kara Murphy Schlichting, New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore
Episode Five: Brad Edmondson, A Wild Idea: How the Environmental Movement Tamed the Adirondacks
Episode Four: Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Episode Two: Dr. Catherine O'Donnell, Elizabeth Seton: American Saint
Empire State Engagements is a long-form interview program created and hosted by Dr. Robert Chiles. It features conversations with historians of all aspects of New York State.
See the "Episodes" page for a complete archive, as well as information on Forthcoming Programming.
Episode Three: Dr. Jennifer A. Lemak, Southern Life, Northern City: The History of Albany's Rapp Road Community
Episode Twelve: Dr. Lizabeth Cohen, Saving America's Cities
Episode Eleven: Dr. Michael B. Boston, "The National Negro Business League in New York City"
Episode Nine: Melissa Franson, "Political Partisanship in the Catskills Region, 1860-1862"
Episode Ten: Dr. Marsha E. Barrett, "Nelson Rockefeller and the Politics of Wealth"
Episode Eight: Dr. Thomas J. Balcerski, "The Little Spark of Manhood I Have Left" and Bosom Friends
Episode Seven: Ashley Hopkins-Benton, Pride Center of the Capital Region
Our most recent episodes are listed here. For a full archive of all our programs, visit the "Episodes" page.
Episode Six: Brad Utter, Enterprising Waters: The History and Art of New York's Erie Canal
Episode Twenty-Four: Brad Utter, ca. 1890 hand fire engine
Episode Twenty-Five: Dr. Lauren Kozakiewicz, Ladies' Day at the Capitol
Episode Twenty-Three: Connie Frisbee Houde, 1930s Wedding Dress
Episode Twenty-One: Ashley Hopkins-Benton, Singer Industrial Sewing Machine and Women's Experiences in Chinatown
Episode Twenty-Two: Devin Lander, New York State Historian
Episode Twenty: Dr. Melissa Fuster, Caribeños at the Table: How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City
Episode Eighteen: Dr. Clarence Jefferson Hall, Jr., A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country
Episode Nineteen: Shayla Colon on her Albany Times Union series "Two Sides of Pearl Street"
Episode Seventeen: Jessica DuLong, Saved at the Seawall: Stories from the Septmeber 11 Boatlift
Episode Fifteen: Dr. Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer, Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York's Gilded Age
Episode Sixteen: Dr. Bruce W. Dearstyne, "The Debut of the Administrative State in New York" and The Spirit of New York
Episode Fourteen: Marisa Scheinfeld, The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland
Episode Thirteen: Dr. Daniel Macfarlane, Fixing Niagara Falls
