This post is written by Lizzy Zarate, the Web Archives Student Assistant for Archival Collections Management. She is an MA student at NYU in the Archives & Public History Program. May 1st marks the start of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. While
Today’s post is authored by Nicole Greenhouse, Web Archivist in Archival Collections Management. This week marks the 15th anniversary of NYU Libraries’ first crawls of websites for our web archives! To date, NYU Special Collections has collected approximately 20 TBs of web content over more
Today’s post is authored by Nicole Greenhouse, Web Archivist in Archival Collections Management. NYU Special Collections, specifically the Tamiment Library, has been web archiving since 2007. As part of the NYU Votes campaign, I thought it would be fun to highlight some of our holdings
Today’s post is authored by NYU Library’s Web Archivist Nicole Greenhouse. Amy Vo, the Cold War Collections Project Archivist, reached out to me the other day asking me about an archived website that is part of a collection that she is working on. Her inquiry
My name is Yvonne Rivas and I am a sophomore economics major participating in the Association of Research Libraries Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence with the Tamiment Library. As part of my internship, I have been working on the New York City Labor History
Today’s post is written by Camilo Lund-Montaño, Agnese N. Haury Dissertation Fellow, Center for the United States and the Cold War at NYU. The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) collection at the Tamiment Library is an incredible treasure trove. The Guild itself is an invaluable source for the
Today’s entry is written by Sarah Moazeni, a Graduate Reference Assistant working in the Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives. On May 1 1886, thousands of workers across America demonstrated and organized strikes to force employers to agree to an eight hour work day. Workers
The Gilded Age in America (approximately 1870-1900) was a time of great growth for organized labor. With this growth came the publication of union newspapers and magazines, and with the publications came poetry. Union magazines offered a sort of portable communal meeting place for workers
Today’s entry is written by Rachel Schimke, project archivist at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. January 27th is designated by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this date in 1945, the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated
The drama! The excitement! The dresses! The hermeneutic subtext on identity politics, the emptiness of financial success, and the inevitable mortality we all must one day confront! That’s right, it’s film awards season, and we are rapidly approaching its peak. Over the course of the