Collections: History and Social Sciences

History and Social Sciences Department
Mid-Manhattan Library, 5th floor
455 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212.340.0887 or 212.340.0888

The largest of the Mid-Manhattan Library subject collections, this department holds 200,000 volumes and 1,000 specialized periodicals and microforms, as well as videos. Subjects include:

• American and World History
• African-American, Puerto Rican, and Native American Studies
• Women's Studies
• Government and Census data
• Sociology, Crime and Social Problems, Law and Journalism
• Religion, Philosophy and Folklore
• Psychiatry
• Library Science