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Mathematics, education and history : towards a harmonious partnership [Electronic book] / Kathleen M. Clark, Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, Sebastian Schorcht, Constantinos Tzanakis, editors.

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]




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Making sense of health, disease, and the environment in cross-cultural history [Electronic book] : the Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe and North America / Florence Bretelle-Establet, Marie Gaille, Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi, editors.

Cham : Springer, c2019.




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Leibniz and the structure of sciences [Electronic book] : modern perspectives on the history of logic, mathematics, epistemology / Vincenzo De Risi, editor.

Cham : Springer, c2019.




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The legacy of Mad men : cultural history, intermediality and American television [Electronic book] / Karen McNally, Jane Marcellus, Teresa Forde, Kirsty Fairclough, editors.

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]




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Islam in Malaysia : an entwined history [Electronic book] / Khairudin Aljunied.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.




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International news agencies : a history [Electronic book] / Michael B. Palmer.

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]




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The Holocene and Anthropocene environmental history of Mexico : a paleoecological approach on Mesoamerica [Electronic book] / edited by Nuria Torrescano- Valle, Gerald A. Islebe, Priyadarsi D. Roy.

Cham : Springer, [2019]




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A history of wine in Europe, 19th to 20th centuries. Volume II, Markets, trade and regulation of quality [Electronic book] / Silvia A. Conca Messina, Stéphane Le Bras, Paolo Tedeschi, Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro, editors.

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.




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The history of Scottish theology. Volume III, The long twentieth century [Electronic book] / David Fergusson and Mark Elliott.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.




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The history of Scottish theology. Volume II, From the early Enlightenment to the late Victorian era [Electronic book] / David Fergusson and Mark Elliott.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.




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The history of Scottish theology. Volume I, Celtic origins to reformed orthodoxy [Electronic book] / David Fergusson and Mark W. Elliott.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.




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Histories of women's work in global sport : a man's world? [Electronic book] / Georgia Cervin, Claire Nicolas, editors.

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.




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Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance [Electronic book].

London : Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2020.




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Historical studies in computing, information, and society : insights from the Flatiron lectures [Electronic book] / William Aspray, editor.

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]




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The free-market family : how the market crushed the American dream (and how it can be restored) [Electronic book] / Maxine Eichner.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.




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The doctoral experience [Electronic book] : student stories from the creative arts and humanities / Donna Lee Brien, Craig Batty, Elizabeth Ellison, Alison Owens, editors.

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2020.




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Borders and border crossings in the contemporary British short story [Electronic book] / edited by Barbara Korte, Laura Ma Lojo-Rodríguez.

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]




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Australian mothering : historical and sociological perspectives [Electronic book] / C. Pascoe Leahy, P. Bueskens, editors.

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]




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Archival historiography in Jewish antiquity [Electronic book] / Laura Carlson Hasler.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.




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Preserving History, One Sticky Note at a Time

Written by Claire L. Lanier During the heated 2016 election, New York artist Matthew “Levee” Chavez famously started the “sticky note project” in the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. Armed with nothing more than some pens and sticky notes, Levee encouraged passersby to write down their emotions surrounding the election and post them on the...

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Heels and History: What sparkly, red platform boots tell us about American culture

Written by Debra Schmidt Bach, Curator of Decorative Arts The New-York Historical Society recently acquired a pair of custom-made boots created for actor Kevin Smith Kirkwood for his role in the hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots, which tells the story of Charlie Price, a young Englishman who inherits his family’s failing shoe factory. While trying...

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Bringing It All Back Home: The Vietnam War in Public History and Personal Memory

Written by Louise Mirrer, President and CEO, New-York Historical Society I was born in 1953, three months before the signing of the armistice that ended the Korean War. My uncle, a U.S. soldier stationed in the Philippines, came home to New York that summer, bearing souvenirs. Among them was an exquisite embroidered silk kimono. A...

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Program Recap: The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition

On Tuesday, November 14, the New-York Historical Society hosted a discussion, “A Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.” This Frederick Douglass Council event featured Manisha Sinha as the guest speaker and Eric Foner as the moderator. Manisha Sinha, a James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, is...

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Women at the Center: Celebrating Our First Year at the Center for Women’s History

This year we opened the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society, the first institution of its kind within the walls of a major U.S. museum. Since then, we’ve been sharing the stories of formidable women whose courage, activism, and determination in the face of resistance inspire us all. It’s been a busy year! A...

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“You Can’t Be What You Can’t See”: Teaching Women’s History

Currently, only 13 percent of the historical figures in history textbooks are women. Why does this matter? As one teacher put it, in his response to our national survey: “You can’t be what you can’t see.” Girls and young women make up more than half of K-12 students and college undergraduates. If women are considered...

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Putting the “Fight” in the “Fighting 69th”: Louis Lang and the Historic Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment

One of the highlights of our North Gallery in our 4th-floor Luce Center, which reopened last April, is the magnificent painting Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War, painted by Louis Lang (1812-1893) in 1862. The painting depicts the regiment marching off the ship and into the Battery in Lower Manhattan,...

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Spring Tech Scholars Explore Women’s History

This spring, the Tech Commons @ N-YHS welcomed our second cohort of Tech Scholars. Young women grades 9-12 from four of the five boroughs came every day for a week to the Tech Commons to explore the intersections of women’s history and web development. The group was tasked with building websites to share not only...

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History and Halloween: John Rogers’ “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

As October 31 draws near, ghosts appear in New York windows, and cobwebs creep over city bushes. Crisp leaves heap in piles along sidewalks where wrinkled gourds line up to watch crunchy commutes. All across the state New Yorkers still “inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams,...

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Happy Birthday, New-York Historical Society!

This week, the New-York Historical Society turned 214! To celebrate our birthday we’re taking a look back on the construction of the New-York Historical Society’s permanent home at 170 Central Park West. Before settling along the park, New-York Historical lived at seven other locations around the city between 1804 and 1908. Here’s a retro map...

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The Bible, America’s First Book: ‘In God We Trust’ at New-York Historical

Most Christian and Jewish Americans, reading about Christ’s resurrection or the Jewish exodus from Egypt during the upcoming Easter and Passover holidays, will not consider the Bible to be an American book. And yet, the Bible was our first American book; its earliest printings, translations, and interpretations reflected the experiences of the first Europeans to...

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The Fascinating Story of the First American Bible, a Native American Language Translation from 1663

The first Bible to be printed in America was special for many reasons, but perhaps the most remarkable is this: It was translated into a language that most English colonists couldn’t read. A Geneva Bible, it was printed in Natick, an Algonquin language spoken by the Massachusett people who lived on the land surrounding the...

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Artist Augusta Savage and the Tragic Story of Her Lost Masterwork

An estimated 44 million people attended the 1939 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, and witnessed its vision for a shimmering, Art Deco “World of Tomorrow.” Some five million of those visitors got a chance to behold Lift Every Voice and Sing. A sculpture by artist Augusta Savage, it stood at a...

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A History of Optical Telescopes in Astronomy by Wilson Wall

Online Resource




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Chondrules: records of protoplanetary disk processes / edited by Sara S. Russell, Natural History Museum, London, Harold C. Connolly Jr., Rowan University, New Jersey, and Alexander N. Krot, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Hayden Library - QB758.5.C46 C456 2018




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Chronicling the golden age of astronomy: a history of visual observing from Harriot to Moore / Neil English

Online Resource




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Pantheon: the true story of the Egyptian deities / Hamish Steele

Hayden Library - PN6737.S837 P36 2017




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Planetes / story and art, Makoto Yukimura ; translation, Yuki Johnson ; English adaptation, Anna Wenger and Brendan Wright ; editor Brendan Wright ; lettering and retouch Susan Daigle-Leach

Hayden Library - PN6790.J34 P87313 2015




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Mobile suit Gundam. story and art, Yasuo Ohtagaki ; original concept by Hajime Yatate and Yoshiyuki Tomino ; translation, Joe Yamazaki ; English adaptation, Stani ; touch-up art & lettering, Evan Waldinger ; cover & design, Shawn Carrico ; editor

Hayden Library - PN6790.J34.K5413 2016




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Wandering island / story and art by Kenji Tsuruta ; translation by Dana Lewis ; lettering and touchup by Susie Lee and Betty Dong with Tom2K

Hayden Library - PN6790.J33 T769313 2016




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Miss Kobayashi's dragon maid. / story & art by coolkyousinnjya ; translation, Jenny McKeon ; adaptation, Shanti Whitesides

Hayden Library - PN6790.J33 C6613 2016




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The girl from the other side: siúil, a rún / story & art by Nagame ; translation, Adrienne Beck ; adaptation, Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane

Hayden Library - PN6790.J33 N3213 2017




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My lesbian experience with loneliness / (true) story & art by Nagata Kabi ; translation, Jocelyne Allen ; adaptation, Lianne Sentar

Hayden Library - PN6790.J33 N243713 2017




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Latinx comic book storytelling: an odyssey by interview / Frederick Luis Aldama ; prologue by Ricardo Padilla ; foreword by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste ; afterword by Christopher González

Hayden Library - PN6710.A43 2016




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Golden kamuy / story and art by Satoru Noda ; translation, Eiji Yasuda ; touch-up art & lettering, Steve Dutro

Hayden Library - PN6790.J34 G67613 2017




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Ethics in the gutter: empathy and historical fiction in comics / Kate Polak

Hayden Library - PN6710.P65 2017




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Batman, the Dark Knight: master race / story by Frank Miller & Brian Azzarello ; pencils by Andy Kubert ; inks by Klaus Janson ; colors by Brad Anderson ; letters by Clem Robins

Hayden Library - PN6728.B36 M544 2017




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The green hand and other stories / Nicole Claveloux ; with Edith Zha ; introduction by Daniel Clowes ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; English lettering by Dustin Harbin

Hayden Library - PN6747.C53 A2 2017




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The American way / John Ridley, writer ; Georges Jeanty, penciller ; Karl Story, Ray Snyder, inkers ; Wildstorm FX, colorist ; Pat Brosseau, Travis Lanham, Rob Leigh, letterers ; Georges Jeanty, Karl Story, Randy Mayor, series and collection cover artist

Hayden Library - PN6728.A496 R53 2017




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Attack on Titan: no regrets / art by Hikaru Suruga ; story by Gun Snark [Nitroplus] ; Attack on Titan created by Hajime Isayama in cooperation with the Attack on Titan production committee ; translation: Ben Applegate & Lindsey Akashi ; additional tra

Hayden Library - PN6790.J34 S532513 2017




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Black cloud / story, Jason Latour; script, Ivan Brandon; art, Greg Hinkle; color, Matt Wilson

Hayden Library - PN6728.B5175 L37 2017