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New Humanism: critical movement in the United States between 1910 and 1930, based on the literary and social theories of the English poet and critic Matthew Arnold, who sought to recapture the ...
New Iberia: city, seat (1868) of Iberia parish, southern Louisiana, U.S., on Bayou Teche (connected via canal with the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway), 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Lafayette. Founded in the ...
New Ireland: island of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. The island, lying just north of New Britain, from which it is separated by St. George's Channel, stretches for about 220 miles ...
New Jersey: constituent state of the United States of America. One of the original 13 states, it is bounded by New York on the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean on the ...
New Jersey, College of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Ewing township, near Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. It comprises schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Nursing, and Engineering. More than 20 graduate ...
New Kensington: city, Westmoreland county, western Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Allegheny River, and near the Pennsylvania Turnpike, just northeast of Pittsburgh. Established in 1891 by a group of Pittsburgh merchants interested in ...
New Lincoln School: private experimental coeducational school in New York City enrolling students from kindergarten through grade 12. Its predecessor was founded as Lincoln School in 1917 by the Rockefeller-funded General Education Board ...
New Liskeard: town, Timiskaming district, eastern Ontario, Canada, at the northern end of Lake Timiskaming (an expansion of the Ottawa River), near the Quebec border. Originally known as Thornloe, the town developed ...
New London: city, coextensive with the town (township) of New London, New London county, southeastern Connecticut, U.S. It is a port on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Thames River. ...
New London: county, southeastern Connecticut, U.S. It is bordered by Long Island Sound (south), Rhode Island (east), and the Connecticut River (southwest). It comprises an upland region that is forested with hardwoods ...
New Madrid: city, seat (1821) of New Madrid county, southeastern Missouri, U.S., on the Mississippi River, 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Cairo, Ill. It originated as a French Canadian trading post ...
New Madrid Fault: deep-seated fracture in the Earth's crust trending southwest-northeast through Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky, U.S. Lying in the central area of the North American Plate, the rift is about 45 ...
New Market: town, Shenandoah county, northwestern Virginia, U.S., in the Shenandoah Valley. Laid out in 1784 and early known as Crossroads, it was incorporated in 1796 and renamed for the famous English ...
New Martinsville: city, seat (1846) of Wetzel county, northern West Virginia, U.S., on the Ohio River, about 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Wheeling. Settled by Edward Doolin in 1780, it was ...
New Mexico: constituent state of the United States of America. Its 121,593 square miles (314,925 square kilometres) make it the fifth largest of the U.S. states; it has only 258 square miles ...
New Mexico State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S. It anchors the New Mexico State University system, which also includes two-year branches at Alamogordo, Las Cruces (Dona ...
New Mexico, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning, situated east of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. It offers a comprehensive array of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs. The ...
New Milford: borough (town), Bergen county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., immediately north of Hackensack on the east bank of the Hackensack River. Early Dutch settlers established a plantation-type farm called Vriesendael, which ...
New Model Army: army formed in February 1645 that won the English Civil War for Parliament and itself came to exercise important political power. When war broke out in 1642, Parliament had at ...
New Moon: (Hebrew: "Head of the Month"), the start of the Hebrew month, a minor Jewish festival on which fasting and mourning are not allowed. The modern observance consists principally in preserving ...
New National Party: South African political party, founded in 1914, which ruled the country from 1948 to 1994. Its following includes most of the Dutch-descended Afrikaners and many English-speaking whites. The National Party ...
New Nationalism: in U.S. history, political philosophy of Theodore Roosevelt, an espousal of active federal intervention to promote social justice and the economic welfare of the underprivileged; its precepts were strongly influenced ...
New Norfolk: town, southern Tasmania, Australia, on the Derwent River. In 1807-08 the inhabitants of Norfolk Island in the South Pacific Ocean were resettled in the area, and in 1811 the town ...
New Novel: avant-garde novel of the mid-20th century that marked a radical departure from the conventions of the traditional novel in that it ignores such elements as plot, dialogue, linear narrative, and ...
New Orleans: city, southeastern Louisiana, U.S. Unquestionably one of the most distinctive cities of the New World, New Orleans was established at great cost in an environment of conflict. Its strategic position, ...
New Orleans Race Riot: (July 1866), after the American Civil War, incident of white violence directed against black urban dwellers in Louisiana; the event was influential in focusing public opinion in the North on ...
New Orleans style: in music, the first method of group jazz improvisation. Developed near the turn of the century, it was not recorded first in New Orleans but rather in Chicago, Los Angeles, ...
New Orleans, Battle of: (Jan. 8, 1815), U.S. victory against Great Britain in the War of 1812. In the autumn of 1814 a British fleet of more than 50 ships commanded by General Edward ...
New Orleans, Battle of: (April 24-25, 1862), naval action by Union forces seeking to capture the city during the American Civil War. A Union naval squadron of 43 ships under Admiral David G. Farragut ...
New Paltz: town (township), Ulster county, southeastern New York, U.S., on the Wallkill River, just northwest of Poughkeepsie; it includes the village of New Paltz. The site was settled by French Huguenots ...
New People's Army: military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Marxist-Leninist (CPP-ML), which is a Communist organization dedicated to achieving power in the Philippines by means of revolutionary insurrection. The CPP-ML ...
New Philadelphia: city, seat (1808) of Tuscarawas county, east-central Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Tuscarawas River, adjacent to the city of Dover, 20 miles (32 km) south of Canton. It was ...
New Plymouth: city ("district") and port, Taranaki local government region, western North Island, New Zealand. It lies along North Taranaki Bight at the base of Mount Egmont (Taranaki). The settlement was founded ...
New Providence Island: principal island of The Bahamas, between Andros Island (west) and Eleuthera Island (east). With a length of 21 miles (34 km) and a width of 7 miles, the island is ...
New Religious Movement: the generally accepted term for what is sometimes called, often with pejorative connotations, a "cult." The term New Religious Movement has been applied to all new faiths that have arisen ...
New Republic Party: former South African political party founded in 1977 as the direct successor to the United Party.
New Republic, The: weekly journal of opinion that was one of the most influential liberal magazines in the United States from its founding in 1914. The magazine was begun by Willard Straight with ...
New River: river formed by the junction of North and South forks in Ashe county, northwestern North Carolina, U.S. It flows north across Virginia into West Virginia and joins the Gauley River, ...
New Rochelle: city, Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies along Long Island Sound, just northeast of New York City. Founded in 1688 by a group of Huguenot refugees, it was ...
New Romney: town ("parish"), Shepway district, administrative and historic county of Kent, England. It was formerly one of the medieval Cinque Ports of the English Channel coast but is now more than ...
New Ross: port town, County Wexford, Ireland. It lies along the River Barrow, just below the latter's junction with the Nore. In the 6th century St. Abban founded the abbey of Rossmactreoin, ...
New School University: private coeducational institution of higher learning in New York, New York, U.S. The New School was established in 1919 as an informal centre for adult education by a group of ...
New Shoreham: town, Rhode Island, U.S., coextensive with Block Island (q.v.).
New Siberian Islands: archipelago, northeastern Russia, lying north of eastern Siberia in the Arctic Ocean and dividing the Laptev Sea to the west from the East Siberian Sea to the east. Dmitry Laptev ...
New Smyrna Beach: city, Volusia county, northeastern Florida, U.S. It lies 15 miles (25 km) south of Daytona Beach, on the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River (a lagoon separated from the Atlantic ...
New South Wales: state of southeastern Australia, occupying both coastal mountains and interior tablelands. It is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the east and the states of Victoria to the south, South ...
New South Wales Corps: (1789-1818), British military force formed for service in the convict colony of New South Wales; it figured prominently in the early history of Australia. With the arrival of the corps ...
New South Wales, Art Gallery of: in Sydney, Australia, government-maintained art museum founded in 1874 with a grant from the state government. A new extension opened in 1972. The original resolution establishing the gallery authorized buying ...
New Spain, Viceroyalty of: the first of the four viceroyalties that Spain created to govern its conquered lands in the New World. Established in 1535, it initially included all land north of the Isthmus ...
New Statesman: political and literary weekly magazine published in London, probably England's best-known political weekly, and one of the world's leading journals of opinion. It was founded in 1913 by Sidney and ...
New Sweden: only Swedish colony in America, established by the New Sweden Company in March 1638 and captured by the Dutch in 1655. The first expedition, including both Swedes and Dutchmen, was ...
New Territories: part of Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China. It comprises an area of 368 square miles (952 square km) north of Kowloon Peninsula from Mirs Bay on the ...
New Testament: second, later, and smaller of the two major divisions of the Christian Bible, and the portion that is canonical (authoritative) only to Christianity.
New Thought: a mind-healing movement that originated in the United States in the 19th century, based on religious and metaphysical (concerning the nature of ultimate reality) presuppositions. The diversity of views and ...
New Tokaido Line: high-speed rail line between Tokyo and Osaka that comprises the first segment of the Shinkansen Line (q.v.).
new town: a form of urban planning designed to relocate populations away from large cities by grouping homes, hospitals, industry and cultural, recreational, and shopping centres to form entirely new, relatively autonomous ...
New Ulm: city, seat of Brown county, south-central Minnesota, U.S., on the Minnesota River, near the mouth of the Cottonwood River, about 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Minneapolis. Founded in 1854 ...
New Wave: the style of a number of highly individualistic French film directors of the late 1950s. Preeminent among New Wave directors were Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and ...
new wave: category of popular music spanning the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Taking its name from the French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s, this catchall classification was defined ...
New Westminster: city, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, on the Fraser River estuary, in the southeastern part of Vancouver metropolitan area. Founded in 1859 on a site chosen by Colonel Richard C. Moody, ...
New Windsor: town (township), Orange county, southeastern New York, U.S., on the Hudson River, immediately south of Newburgh. The old village, New Windsor Center (named for Windsor, England), was laid out in ...
New Year festival: any of the social, cultural, and religious observances worldwide that celebrate the beginning of the new year. Such festivals are among the oldest and the most universally observed.
New York: constituent state of the United States of America, one of the 13 original states. The 49,108 square miles (127,190 square kilometres) of New York are bounded, from west to north, ...
New York Botanical Garden: one of the leading centres of botanical research and floristics in the United States. The 250-acre (101-hectare) garden, located in Bronx Park, New York City, has a plant collection consisting ...
New York Central Railroad Company: one of the major American railroads that connected the East Coast with the interior. Founded in 1853, it was a consolidation of 10 small railroads that paralleled the Erie Canal ...
New York City: city and port located at the mouth of the Hudson River, southeastern New York state, northeastern U.S. It is the largest and most influential American metropolis, encompassing Manhattan and Staten ...
New York City Ballet: resident ballet company of the New York State Theatre at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The company, first named Ballet Society, was founded in 1946 by the choreographer ...
New York Daily News: morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City, once the newspaper with the largest circulation in the United States.
New York Dolls, the: American band whose raw brand of glam rock revitalized the , foreshadowing punk rock by half a decade. The members were David Johansen (b. January 9, 1950, New York, New ...
New York Herald: American daily newspaper published from 1835 to 1924 in New York City. It was one of the first papers created in the penny-press movement, and it developed many aspects of ...
New York Philharmonic: symphony orchestra based in New York, N.Y., the oldest major symphony orchestra in the United States in continual existence and one of the oldest in the world. Founded in 1842 ...
New York Public Library: one of the great libraries of the world and the largest city public library in the United States. It was established in 1895 through the consolidation of the privately endowed ...
New York school: those painters who participated in the development of contemporary art from the early 1940s in or around New York City. During and after World War II, leadership in avant-garde art ...
New York State Canal System: system of state-owned, state-operated waterways, 524 miles (843 km) in length, linking the Hudson River with Lake Erie, with extensions to Lakes Ontario and Champlain and Cayuga and Seneca lakes ...
New York Stock Exchange: the world's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange evolved from a meeting of 24 men under a buttonwood tree in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York ...
New York Sun: daily newspaper published from 1833 to 1950 in New York City, long one of the most influential of American newspapers. The Sun was the first successful penny daily newspaper in ...