The 17th-century letter is widely considered to have inspired the religious freedom clause in the First Amendment.

One of the largest library systems in the United States is seeking employees. The New York Public Library currently has more than two dozen job vacancies. Multiple positions are ...

See the artwork that won the New York Public Library National Teen Art Contest, a testament to the artist's grandmother.

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil ...

Thrilled to Death” collects many of Lynne Tillman’s spiky short stories, where dreams tell the truth and glamour mingles with ...

Opening this week in Chicago, the National Public Housing Museum wants to reinvigorate our interest in collective well-being ...

Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago’s near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America. A former federal housing project that ...

The New York City Council on Thursday passed a bill that would add more than 1,000 new public restrooms over the next 10 years. The bill, sponsored by Councilmember Sandy Nurse, passed in a unanimous ...

Mementos Became Material for Joan Didion: The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public Library offer physical evidence of how embedded Didion’s personal ...

Artnet Auctions' Premier Prints and Multiples Sale illuminates the relationship between artists and the teams that ...

Learn more here. Opened Feb. 22 New York Public Library, Manhattan Free and open to the public An exhibit at the New York Public Library is celebrating 100 years of "The New Yorker" magazine.