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5 Ways to Research Your Italian Heritage Without Leaving Home
An Italian family has supper, East Side, New York City, 1915. Image ID 464293Over four million Italians entered the United States between 1880-1930. Are your ancestors among them?An Italian family...
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Traces from Jefferson's Account Book: The Hemings Family
This is the first post in a series that will examine strands of Thomas Jefferson’s life and world, from 1791-1803, through entries in his manuscript account book. Thomas Jefferson wrote a lot. And he...
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Now Screening: New Electronic Resources, July 2015
NYPL recently acquired three new databases from vendor Gale Cengage: National Geographic Virtual Library, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, and Indigenous Peoples: North America. You can use these...
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New York on the Front Line: The Black Tom Island Explosion, July 1916
Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty, 1912. Black Tom Island can be seen in the background on the right. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. Image ID:...
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The following titles on our Recent Acquisitions Display are just a few of our new books, which are available at the reference desk in the Dorot Jewish Division. Catalog entries for the books can be...
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Untapped E-Resources: American Broadsides and Ephemera
What is this curious artifact of daily life in 19th century America?Rebus, forming part of an advertisement for R.C. Sawdey & Co.'s Boots and Shoes, Coldwater, Michigan, 1869It's a rebus—a puzzle...
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Online Research: Where to Start
The New York Public Library has a huge selection of online content to help with your research, whether it's finding a single article, tracing a family tree, writing a dissertation, or anything in...
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Jewish Genealogy: A Quick Online Guide
Find out how to get information about your Jewish roots. Links to vital records, Holocaust resources, name origins, and Jewish genealogy collections.Vital recordsBirth, death, immigration, census,...
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Book Recommendations on Node.js and React
Looking for a new book to read this month? Check out this monthly list of 100 books chosen by NYPL staff members on Staff Picks. Choose an age category, choose one or more themes that interest you to...
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Blue Pencil in the Blue Room: City Tabloids, Old Laws, and the Painted Ladies
This past month in New York City, political issues have surrounded the Painted Ladies of Times Square like googly-eyed tourists with cameras on selfie sticks. The uproar fittingly abides the municipal...
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Unexpected Sources: Slave Cloth in the Richard Henry Lee Letters
Archival research is always surprising. No matter how much I think I know about a given set of archival sources, I am never quite sure what I will find. Over the last decade, databases have made it...
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Hubble and the Sublime: The Fear of the Infinite
Twenty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit around the earth. In that time, it has sent back more than a million images, many startling, like the “Pillars of Creation” in...
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The Palimpsest of Justice: Law, Narrative, and the Romantic Self
A guest post by Mark Schoenfield, Department of English, Vanderbilt University.Though it makes us blush, we are pleased to present Mark Schoenfield's blog on his time here this summer as one of the...
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Yiddish Theater Research: A Quick Online Guide
Joseph Buloff. Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library. Image ID: 115334General WorksDigital Yiddish Theatre ProjectA research consortium and website applying digital humanities tools and...
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Running and Reading Into the NYC Marathon
"Keep it steady and conserve your energy," I tell myself as a few runners eagerly pick up their pace on the downhill portion of the Queensboro Bridge. We're on the Manhattan side of the bridge, and...
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Bruce Jay Friedman, A Story Teller: Humanizing Humility
Bruce Jay Friedman photographed by Andrea Alberts. Berg Collection.Bruce Jay Friedman, a journalist, novelist, playwright and screen-writer whose work emerged on the New York City scene in the 1960s,...
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Louisa May Alcott, In Her Own Words
On September 30, 1868, the first volume of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women was published. It was an immediate success, and Alcott authored a second volume at a punishing pace, completing the text in...
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The Natural History of Early Modern Needlework
Plate from Isabella Parasole's book of lace patterns, published in 1616Nineteenth-century literature is full of anecdotes about women’s involvement with needle point. In Mansfield Park, Jane Austen...
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Understanding the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Over the past several weeks, we've heard a lot about the plight of refugees fleeing Syria and its neighboring countries for safer and more stable living conditions in Europe. Such a systemic,...
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: October 2015
The following titles on our Recent Acquisitions Display are just a few of our new books, which are available at the reference desk in the Dorot Jewish Division. Catalog entries for the books can be...
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