Season 12
199915 EpisodesDocumentary
Episode Guide
The Country and the City, 1609-1825: New York opens by noting that the city was a business proposition from its very inception, tracing Henry Hudson’s harbor arrival while exploring for the Dutch East India Company. Part 1 highlights New Yorker Alexander Hamilton, the first Treasury Secretary, and Gov. DeWitt Clinton, the architect of the Erie Canal. Narrator David Ogden Stiers observes that all America would converge in New York.