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The New York University Archives has served, since 1977, as the final repository for the historical records of New York University (NYU), in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. The NYU Archives contains documents, photographs or drawings collected since 1854, including records or notebooks of some ...
The Tamiment Library is a research library at New York University that documents radical and left history, with strengths in the histories of communism, socialism, anarchism, the New Left, the Civil Rights Movement, and utopian experiments. The Robert F. Wagner Archives, which is also housed in Bobst Library at NYU, documents American labor ...
Daniel J. "Danny" Walkowitz (born 1942) is an American historian who specializes in labor history, urban history, and public history. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of History and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. He co-founded the Archives and Public History graduate program with Paul ...
Bobst Library's Lobby A view of the interior of Bobst. The library, built in 1972, [4] is NYU's largest library and one of the largest academic libraries in the U.S. Designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, [4] the 12-story, 425,000 square feet (39,500 m 2) structure is the flagship of an eleven-library, 5.9 million-volume system.
Grey Fine Arts Library and Study Center (Art History) Avery Fisher Library (Music and Media) Game Center Open Library (Tandon School of Engineering) The Constantine Georgiou Library (Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development) [16] [17]
As a part of the New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, the Center seeks to help the next generation of public service leaders develop a deeper understanding of how and why Congress makes decisions. The Center is named for founder John Brademas, who served in the U.S. House for 22 years (1959–81).
The history of New York University begins in the early 19th century. A group of prominent New York City residents from the city's landed class of merchants, bankers, and traders established NYU on April 18, 1831. These New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based on merit, not birthright ...
The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, built between 1967 and 1972, is the largest library at NYU and one of the largest academic libraries in the U.S. Designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, the 12-story, 425,000 square feet (39,500 m 2) structure sits on the southern edge of Washington Square Park and is the flagship of an eight-library, 4.5 million volume system that provides students and ...