For the 17th of March — NYLI & James T. Brady wish a heartfelt céad míle fáilte to all our Blog Readers !
James T. Brady — 19th Century’s greatest criminal defense attorney, NYLI luminary and now permanent resident (or at least his bust is, lol) got into the spirit of things this St. […]
In our third week of celebrating Women’s History Month, NYLI takes a look at prominent women in science and math…
Thanks to the wonderful 2016 film Hidden Figures, you probably know about women — such as Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson & Dorothy Vaughn — who worked for NASA and made it possible for the U.S. […]
NYLI’s salute to Women in History continues this Wednesday with a focus on outstanding female entrepreneurs….
You may know that technological advances played a decisive role in the American Civil war… but did you know about business leader and inventor Martha Coston’s contribution of signaling flares that are still used by the U.S. Navy […]
March is Women’s History Month… and to celebrate, The New York Law Institute will be blogging every Wednesday in March about women’s contributions to various fields of endeavor.
Legislative materials are available on ProQuest…. access to PQ included with NYLI membership.
You may know from the latest ABA study that 38 % of attorneys […]
We conclude our Black History month profiles with Dr. Carla Hayden — the first female and first African-American Librarian of Congress.Appointed by President Obama in 2016, Dr. Hayden began her career with the Chicago Public library as a children’s librarian in the early 1970s. In 1995, she was […]
While George Washington’s Birthday was established as a federal holiday in 1885 and many states also commemorated Lincoln’s birthday as a holiday, the 1971 Uniform Monday Holiday Act created more three day weekends and Washington’s Birthday morphed into the more generic Presidents’ Day.
P.L. 90-363: Public Laws; House, Senate & Congressional Reports, […]
Playwright and founder of an experimental theatre, librarian, historian, and instrumental in the Harlem Renaissance — Regina Anderson Andrews was more than pioneer — she was dynamo whose name should be cherished by all who love the arts and the history of New York City.Consider….
First African American to lead a New York Public Library […]
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, one of The New York Public Library’s renowned research libraries, is a world-leading cultural institution devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.
World renown research center…. but Who was Arthur Schomburg??
Arthur […]
It’s sometimes hard to imagine life without the internet…. and certainly even harder to imagine a perfectly safe internet. But we can make it safer…. Since 2003, an international Safer Internet Day has sought to guide the world in creating both a safer and a better internet, where everyone is empowered to use […]
The phrase “unsung hero” is often overused; in the case of Millie Huston Lee, the term is certainly more than appropriate. In honor of Black History Month, NYLI will be blogging every Wednesday in February about great African-American librarians. Their names may not be known — but their dedication to literacy affected […]
