NYLI will be closing early on Wednesday, December 31st for New Year’s Eve at 2pm and will be closed on Thursday, January 1st and Friday the 2nd for the New Year’s holiday. We will re-open Monday, January 5th. We here at NYLI wish you a very Happy New Year!
The written word, images, music and film all exit the world of copyright and enter into public domain….. This Public Domain Day (1.1.2025), we’ve got some interesting graduates entering into the latest class of public domain works of art…. Virginia Woolf’s seminal feminist essay “A Room of One’s Own,”as well as Hemingway’s war novel “A…
The classic love triangle of Beecher, his best friend Tilton and Tilton’s wife Elizabeth pushed post-Civil War issues of reconstruction off the front pages for almost three years. A storied New England family of authors, preachers and social reformers would be divided. And some legal eagles of the Mid-19th Century, including NYLI stalwart William M….
Researching Great, Great, .. and perhaps a few more G’s.. Grandfather James W. Gerard at The New York Law Institute ! Sumner Gerard , a direct descendant of NYLI founder James W. Gerard , was able to research some family history with the help of our resources and reference skills. James W. Gerard (1794- 1874) was…
