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Facing overwhelming obstacles, Jews and others in occupied Europe resisted Nazi rule in a variety of ways during World War II. Some instigated u...

As the civil rights movement waned in the 1960s and early ’70s, federal programs promoted a new means of racial equality: the franchising of McDona...

Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc...

Women who were pregnant and unmarried in the early 1900s faced limited options and societal scorn. Many chose, or were sent, to deliver their babie...

Just before dawn on December 16, 1944, American forces in the Ardennes forests of Belgium and Luxemburg were surprised by the roar of German tanks...

Start the holiday season with a festival at the Library, overlooking the beautiful Plaza lights. Listen to live music while enjoying cookies and...

An heiress who preferred big-game hunting to debutante balls, Gertrude “Gertie” Legendre was interesting enough to be an inspiration for a 1928 Broadw...

Author and activist Helen LaKelly Hunt recalls the event that launched the women’s rights movement in our country – the first Anti-Sl...

In an industry—local television news—that churns through on-air talent with nearly every ratings dip and shift in management, Al Wallace...

Recorded by Dylan Thomas in 1952 and published in book form two years later, A Child’s Christmas in Wales endures as one of the...