185 Joyce D. Goodfriend, Early New York City and its Culture




Ben Franklin's World show

Summary: Culture is important. It impacts how we think and act as members of families, local communities, states, and nations. So who sets the unwritten social rules and ideas we adopt and live by? Joyce Goodfriend, author of Who Should Rule at Home? Confronting the Elite in British New York City, helps us investigate this question by taking us through the history of early New York City and how its culture evolved between 1664 and 1776.