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  • Doc Chat Episode Fifty-Four: Exploring 125 Years of the Forverts, New York City's Legendary Yiddish Newspaper

    By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | June 17, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Explore the pages of one of the most important Yiddish newspapers in the world. 

  • Doc Chat Fifty-Two: Friendship & Masculinity Through the Lens of a 19th-century Black Photographer

    By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | June 6, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    An in-depth examination of friendship, race, and masculinity through one 19th-century portrait. 

  • Doc Chat Fifty: Representations of Student Activism in the Black Radical Press

    By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | June 1, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    A journalist and an NYPL librarian explore representations of student activism in the Black radical press of the 1960s and 1970s.

  • Doc Chat Fifty-One: Policing Gender, Race, and Sexuality in 20th-Century New York City (and in the Archives)

    By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | June 1, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Historians discuss what one handwritten arrest record can tell us about gender, race, sexuality, and policing in 20th-century NYC.

  • Doc Chat Fifty-Three: The Misses Porter, Sister Novelists in the Age of Jane Austen

    By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | May 29, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Explore the story and papers of a female historical novelist whose fame once rivaled Walter Scott's.

  • Doc Chat Forty-Nine: The Barber of Moscow

    By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | April 14, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Experts analyze one of the most iconic images in modern Russian culture.

  • Doc Chat Forty-Eight: Exploring the Irish American Experience Through the Emigrant Savings Bank Records

    By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | April 6, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Explore the Irish American experience through the records of one influential 19th-century banking institution. 

  • Doc Chat Forty-Seven: What’s Cooking in the Yiddish Kitchen - Recipes for Immigrant Women

    By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | April 4, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Explore the world of Yiddish cookbooks published by famous American food companies.

  • Doc Chat Forty-Six: The Remarkable Career of Bronislava Nijinska

    By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | March 30, 2022
    The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
    A lively conversation about the life and legacy of choreographer Bronislava Nijinska.

  • Doc Chat Forty-Five: A Guide to Black Travel Guides

    By Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscri | March 7, 2022
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    Schomburg Center librarian Rhonda Evans and NYPL curator Julie Golia analyzed travel guides used by African Americans to help them navigate…