A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world.

One of the world’s most acclaimed nature writers, Edward Hoagland, has died at age 93. He overcame a stutter and near-blindness to publish dozens of books ...

For Black History Month, the library partnered with the city's Divine Nine organizations to create an exhibition in the main library’s SmartBox room. The exhibit includes clothing, books, photographs ...

McCoy DeBardelaben said it’s become increasingly important to have such a reliable and trustworthy outlet. Especially in the age of misinformation and artificial intelligence.

New "Leaders in Time Series" Features 'William Henry Seward's Quest to Save the Nation During the Secession Winter ...

Iranians reprised their protest slogans to mark the 40th day since mass anti-government demonstrations left thousands dead. Iranian students have held protests that led to clashes at several Iranian ...

Instead of picketing, striking autoworkers in Flint, Michigan, tried a bold tactic that gummed up the works and forced the ...

One of the most radical and under the radar groups with close ties to a nonprofit run by tech millionaire Neville Roy Singham is a pro-North Korea nonprofit that bashes Uncle Sam and plots the demise ...

I wrote a book about Jesse Jackson, and we became friends. The cynics didn’t get how he fused moral simplicity and political ...

These are all by the remarkable, baffling Harper Lee, the Monroeville, Alabama native who spent most of adult life in New York City, where her first two books were written and most of the third. “The ...

The median home value hovers around $85,000 – a figure that in NYC might get you a glorified closet with “partial street view ...