Today’s post was written by Lou Di Gennaro, Special Collections Conservator in the Barbara Goldsmith Book & Paper Conservation Laboratory at Bobst Library Much has already been written about the Liber Chronicarum better known to English speakers as the Nuremberg Chronicle. A simple Google search
Today’s post was written by Sarah Moazeni, graduate reference assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives. In honor of Black History Month and the upcoming Oscars, we pulled out the Tamiment’s copy of 12 Years a Slave. This volume was printed in
Today’s post was written by Aleksandr Gelfand, adjunct curator at the New York University Archives. In 1956, Carol Heiss, a 16-year-old from Ozone Park, Queens, traveled to Italy to compete in the Winter Olympics. Heiss won a silver medal in figure skating, but her victory
There has been no shortage of discussion regarding the non-athletic aspects of this year’s Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, with activists expressing concern about various issues, including corruption, terrorist threats, human rights violations, regional conflict in the Caucasus, looming debts for citizens of host cities,