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Memorial Day: Commemorating and Remembering Our Veterans and Those Who Serve
American Military Personnel, United States, 1860s.May 27th is Memorial Day. Did you know that this U.S. federal holiday goes as far back as the American Civil War in the 1860s?Memorial Day, formerly...
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TeachNYPL: World War II and the Double V Campaign (Gr. 10-12)
"The Pittsburgh Courier drew its inspiration for the Double V campaign from a letter by James G. Thompson of Wichita, Kansas, published in the January 31, 1942 issue. Thompson, in his letter titled...
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March Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
A new approach to health care reform ... 20 years of Harlem Street Portraits ... humanist architecture ... The Extreme Life of the Sea ... New York City's unbuilt subways ... mothers ... the power of...
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Monuments Men Reading List
The Monuments Men film was a slightly fictionalized version of the incredible true story of the activities of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program at the end of World War II. Though much of...
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Книги на военные темы - Russian Books on Military Subjects
Недавно в библиотекy Mid- Manhattan поступило коллекционное издание культовой книги ведущего историка бронетехники. Мы искренне надеемся что нашим читателям на досуге будет приятно полистать...
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Booktalking "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
B for Brikenau Concentration Camp, 3087 for prisoner number. This is how the Nazis define Yanek."You're 18 years old, and you have a trade," veteran prisoners desperately advise newcomers to declare in...
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December Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
The lost tribe of Coney Island... building the Statue of Liberty... a culinary history of America in 100 bites... the sinking of refugee ship The Wilhelm Gustloff during World War II... a close-up of...
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Booktalking "Code Talker" by Joseph Bruchac
Sixteen-year-old Ned Begay is used to being called stupid and other names by adults. So joining the Marines and going through boot camp is not especially challenging for him. But war does take its...
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March Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
Drawing as a form of inquiry... groundbreaking graphic designers... The U.S. a safe haven for Nazis... 1,000 years of visualizing the cosmos... a moment-by-moment account of Hurricane Sandy... the era...
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The Mythology of Bruno Schulz
Drohobycz. Image ID: 1226408How did a Jewish writer, who wrote exclusively in Polish and who died in the Holocaust, become practically a cult figure of mid-20th century literature? From Drohobych (in...
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Soldiers’ Stories
This Veterans’ Day, when we honor the contributions of the men and women in the U.S. Armed Forces, we’re thinking about books told from the perspective of soldiers, pilots, medical personnel, and...
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January Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan
Last year, the Mid-Manhattan Library hosted distinguished scholars and authors at the Author @ The Library series. Some of the topics presented included photography, education, science and technology,...
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Voices of Holocaust Survivors: Oral Histories and Personal Narratives
The United Nations commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.Survivors’ personal stories are a powerful primary source for learning about the Holocaust. Explore the Library’s...
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July Author @ the Library Programs at Mid-Manhattan Library
True-crime in New York...cheating Hitler...healthy Jewish cooking...the tainted lives of the children of dictators...the power of imagery...a trip through Provence....the logic and aesthetics behind...
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How I Know Dr. Roscoe C. Brown
Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick CashinThis is a guest post by Dr. Sam Gellens, interviewer for Remembering Riverdale: Our Neighborhood Oral History Project at Riverdale...
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On the Front Page: A Look Back at Pearl Harbor
The USS Arizona (BB-39) burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor via Wikimedia Commons / National Archives and Records AdministrationA "day which will live in infamy" is how President Franklin...
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Booktalking "Survivors Club" by Michael Bornstein
survivors clubMichael Bornstein was merely a fetus in Sophie Jonisch Bornstein's uterus in Poland in 1939 when the SS soldiers from the Third Reich invaded Zarki. The Germans appealed to the Jewish...
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Memorial Day Reading List: World War II
Group photograph of the U.S. Coast Guard Quartet members while singing; New York, N.Y.; NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 1260358This Memorial Day, we honor the memory of all those who lost their...
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Sketch of Life: Children’s Biographies of Noteworthy Asian Pacific Americans
Inspirational biographies never go out of style. Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans have made many important cultural and historical contributions to the United States and the world. Learn...
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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: Researching with NYPL's E-Resources...
Children of Chinatown, San Francisco, 1903-1904. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID 66574May is Asian Pacific America Heritage Month. The New York Public Library has created this list of free online...
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