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Now Screening: American Founding Era Papers
Now Screening highlights NYPL's recent electronic resource acquisitions. This month: American Founding Era Papers, available at any NYPL location, or remotely using your library card.Everyone's...
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20 Databases to Get You Back to School
In the blink of an eye, summer is almost over, and it’s time to fill backpacks with Mead notebooks and sharpened #2 pencils. Besides the textbooks and school supplies, however, there are plenty of...
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The Last Nostrand Streetcar: Max Hubacher's New York Photography
Max Hubacher (1900-1989) took a more or less straightforward, no-frills approach to photographing his surroundings. A prolific amateur photographer and local historian, Hubacher documented New York...
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A Happy, Healthy, Gluten-Free New Year
Punica granatum = Grenadier à fruits doux. [Inside part of ripe pomegranate]. By Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). NYPL Rare Books, Image ID 1109258September is an opportune time to try some festive...
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Drinking Whiskey in the Whiskey Rebellion: The Soldiers' Perspective
An overwhelming sense of déjà vu probably washed over the western Pennsylvania countryside in 1794. Less than twenty years after revolting against British tax policies that they deemed unfair,...
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Talking U.S.A. Death Records
"And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements"—"Thanatopsis,"William Cullen Bryant A death record is a legal statement of fact...
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Searching for Art Resources from Home
Man writing at a desk. Image ID: 93949Are you looking for art resources from home and don’t know where to begin? The New York Public Library’s Articles & Databases include full texts and abstracts...
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Finding George R.R. Martin's Earliest Work
NYPL Digital Collections Image ID: 407623Many readers are aware—perhaps painfully aware—that George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has been a decades-long undertaking. The first book, A...
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Disposessing Loyalists and Redistributing Property in Revolutionary New York
The American Revolution was a civil war. It may have given rise to a republic in which the foundation for government legitimacy is a democratic citizenry offering its voluntary consent to law. But that...
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Romantic Interests: Celebrating 30 Years of the Pforzheimer Collection at NYPL
2016 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle coming to The New York Public Library. To celebrate the occasion, a small exhibition titled...
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: September 2016
All The World: Universalism, Particularism And The High Holy Days by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman (ed.)Alphabet Of Memory by Giuseppe Barbieri (ed.)Being Jewish In 21st-Century Germany by Haim Fireberg...
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Sympathy for a Spy
“Treason of the blackest day,” wrote Henry Dearborn in his journal, “is this day fortunately discovered.” American troops had captured British Army Major John André a few days before Dearborn took note...
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Magical Book Train: Librarians Summon Books to Rose Main Reading Room
*/“They just hurtled through a maze of twisting passages. Harry tried to remember, left, right, right, left, middle fork, right, left, but it was impossible. The rattling cart seemed to know its own...
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New York Public Library Digitizes 137 Years of New York City Directories
New York Public Library is digitizing its collection of New York City Directories, 1786 through 1922/3, serving them free through the NYPL Digital Collections portal. The first batch—1849/50 through...
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Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker Diary: October 8, 1800
“This morning Mr. Solomon Roe, Teller in the New York Bank, put an end to his existence by discharging a Pistol through his head—it is said to be in consequences of Olcott’s failure” -Elizabeth De Hart...
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NYPLarcade: International Games Day 2016
Please join MyLibraryNYC, NYPLarcade, and TeenLIVE in celebrating the 9th annual International Games Day! This event celebrates play and games at libraries all over the world.The festivities take place...
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The Specter of Foreign Influence in Early American Politics
In his farewell address, George Washington famously cautioned Americans against both “the baneful effects of the spirit of party,” or partisanship, and the “insidious wiles of foreign influence,” which...
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Recent Acquisitions in the Jewish Division: November 2016
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.Bergen-Belsen, History of the Memorial by...
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Now Screening: New Yorker Digital Archive
Cartoon from the New Yorker's tenth issue, featuring the New York Public Library lionEver since its launch in 1925, the New Yorker has been a fixture of newsstands, coffee tables, and commuter bags,...
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Looking for Langston, Du Bois, and Miss La La: An Interview with Author John...
John Keene is Chair of African American and African Studies and Associate Professor of English and AAAS at Rutgers University-Newark. A former member of the Dark Room Writers Collective of Cambridge...
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