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When you think of “the Y,” what pops into your head? A catchy song you used to hear at the disco?

Between 1918 and 1921, various groups associated with the labor movement in the United States founded at least 20 colleges and institutes geared specifically towards workers.¹ These schools were not intended to funct

June 19 - or Juneteenth - is a holiday that commemorates the official end of slavery in the United States.

Black Girls Talk Sports is a podcast where women of color discuss topics in mens’ and womens’ sports.

This past Tuesday was the 79th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion or D-Day. D-Day, meaning the start of a military operation, is most associated with the invasion of Normandy, France during World War Two,  which took place on June 6, 1944.

The Tattooed Historian is a history podcast that is accessible, edgy and fun. The host of the podcast is historian John Heckman.

Written by Aliya Moudud, a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence College studying politics and advocacy work. 

Histories of Change, Continuity, and Community: Yonkers presents a new episode focused on education and accessibility in Yonkers.

Histories of Change, Continuity, and Community: Yonkers presents two new episodes focused on government aid in Yonkers.

Histories of Change, Continuity, and Community: Yonkers presents two new
episodes focused on local malls. Yonkers, New York is home to two shopping centers,

Thomas Clapp Cornell, after whom a Yonkers public school is named, came to Yonkers as a young man of 28 in the summer of 1847.

 At that time, as Cornell himself wrote almost 50 years later,

Born in the German duchy of Baden, but brought to the United States as an infant, Father Albert Lings is eminently worthy to be counted among those figures reckoned as pillars of Yonkers. 

Ervin Saunders, who was born on April 3, 1848, was one of the six sons of David Saunders, the founder of David Saunders & Sons, a successful tool manufacturing business located on Atherton Street (the street which now separates the library

The Congressional Medal of Honor has been awarded to one, and only one, Yonkers resident, Colonel William Laing Heermance.