Books
See Leonardo da Vinci's Genius Yourself in These Newly Digitized Sketches
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has made ultra high-resolution scans of two codices available online
J.R.R. Tolkien's Final Posthumous Book Is Published
The author tinkered with and rewrote <em>The Fall of Gondolin</em>, one of his first tales of Middle-earth, many times during his career
Fall Down the Rabbit Hole With the New York Public Library's Instagram Version of Classic Tales
Featured texts include ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,’ ‘The Metamorphosis’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper'
What Drove Sigmund Freud to Write a Scandalous Biography of Woodrow Wilson?
The founder of psychoanalysis collaborated with a junior American diplomat to lambaste the former president
How an Artist Is Rebuilding a Baghdad Library Destroyed During the Iraq War
“168:01,” an installation now on view at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, encourages visitors to donate books to the University of Baghdad
New Semi-Autobiographical Hemingway Story Published
"A Room On the Garden Side" was written in 1956 and takes place during the liberation of Paris in 1944
New York Public Library Acquires Unpublished Chapter of Malcolm X’s Autobiography
The public is just weeks away from being able to view these “lost” works
The Prince Who Preordered Jane Austen’s First Novel
The future George IV was a big fan of the author, a feeling she half-heartedly reciprocated with a dedication years later
This Cold War-Era Publishing House Wanted To Share American Values With the World
Funded by the U.S. government, Franklin Publications was viewed as pushing imperialist propaganda
Oldest Greek Fragment of Homer Discovered on Clay Tablet
The verses come from the ancient city of Olympia and date to the Roman era
Arsenic-Laced Books Discovered in University Library
During the Victorian era, the toxin was commonly found hidden in wallpaper, paints and dyes
The Visionary John Wesley Powell Had a Plan for Developing the West, But Nobody Listened
Powell’s foresight might have prevented the 1930s dust bowl and perhaps, today’s water scarcities
The Adventurous Writer Who Brought Nancy Drew To Life
Mildred Wirt Benson helped invent the fictional teen sleuth who became a generational role model
A Century Ago, the Romanovs Met a Gruesome End
Helen Rappaport’s new book investigates if the family could have been saved
The Unheralded Pioneers of 19th-Century America Were Free African-American Families
In her new book, 'The Bone and Sinew of the Land', historian Anna-Lisa Cox explores the mostly ignored story of the free black people who first moved West
Mountaintop Museum Highlights the History of Bond—James Bond
The new 007 Elements museum is built into the top of an Alpine mountain and features a full-size airplane from the movie <i>Spectre</i>
What if Napoleon Hadn't Lost Europe and Other Questions of Alternate History
How the 200-year-old literary genre reflects changing notions of history and society
These Portuguese Libraries Are Infested With Bats—and They Like It That Way
They actually serve a very specific purpose
What Is the Future of Fire?
Geologist Andrew C. Scott reconstructs the sites of past blazes to look at our relationship with this elusive element
Seventy-Five Years Ago, Women's Baseball Players Took the Field
An Indiana slugger was one of the athletes who “hit the dirt in the skirt” and changed Americans’ view of women
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