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Asian American dance artists have appeared on U.S. stages since the nineteenth century. They have worked behind the scenes, sometimes anonymously, to train and inspire others and choreograph in ballet and modern dance as well as dance from their own heritages. Learn about ten of these artists from the twentieth century in the short biographies we've provided at the end of the volume.

In Episode Twenty-Seven, NYPL's Carmen Nigro and Annie Polland, President of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, examined photos taken by inspectors of the New York City Tenement House Department and discussed reform, regulation, and social conditions in Depression-era NYC.

In this episode, Bridgett Pride and Kadiatou Tubman of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture discussed ways that they have used zines and zine-making projects to help students of all ages explore historical research, express their creativity, and envision themselves as historians.

In this episode, NYPL's Bob Kosovsky and Fredric Fehleisen of The Juilliard School discussed an early 19th-century portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven now owned by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Maya has been a patron of the Library for a number of decades. She recently characterized books provided for her as the "chief supporting system of her soul".

Police killings of Black people are painful reminders of not only our history in this nation but, all too often, our present.

In this episode, NYPL’s Liz Denlinger and Professor Michelle Levy of Simon Fraser University analyzed an album of letters by "Eminent Women," collected by a London librarian and self-professed sufferer of “autographic mania,” William Upcott.

Perhaps best known for his novels, he is also a poet, playwright, essayist, and has written several collections of short stories.

In this episode, NYPL's Matt Knutzen and NYU Professor Tom Augst probed the archives of Brown Brothers & Company and revealed the hands-on role that the financial firm played in managing one Southern plantation.

Aprenda sobre algunas escritoras y escritores que no puede dejar de leer, que llevan el amor por la lengua española en sus venas y enaltecen la literatura en español a nivel mundial.