Blog Posts by Subject: World History

21st-Century Women on Film

 by John Calhoun, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
February 26, 2010

Global women's issues are the focus of Jefferson Market Branch's Monday night film series in March, which is National Women's History Month. The series, titled 21st-Century Women on Film, includes five movies made in the first decade of the 2000s, and examines contemporary challenges facing women across four continents.

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The City of Light Before the Advent of Electricity: New York City Travel Writing, 1600s

 by Laura Ruttum
January 6, 2010

Gotham. The Big Apple. The City of Light. Crossroads of the World. And my personal favorite: the City of Superlatives. These are all sobriquets that have been applied to New York City at one time or another.

The city that has insinuated its way into the hearts of so many travelers has inspired an incredible outpouring of travel guides and literature.

Travel writing at its best is half reporting and half myth-creating by the adventurer fortunate to visit an unknown, perhaps exotic destination. These treatises offer a 

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