Windows 95 Jingle, 1960 World Series Broadcast and Other ‘Audio Treasures’ Added to the National Recording Registry
From a list of 2,600 nominations submitted by the public, the Library of Congress has selected 25 songs, albums and sounds that are at least ten years old to preserve for posterity
How Bergen-Belsen, Where Anne Frank Died, Was Different From Every Other Nazi Concentration Camp
A new exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London chronicles the German camp complex’s history, from its origins housing prisoners of war to its afterlife holding displaced persons
‘Politically Repurposed’ Copy of Famous Shakespearean Love Sonnet Discovered Inside a 17th-Century Poetry Collection
The rare handwritten copy of “Sonnet 116” features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British royalist ideas into the romantic ode, according to researchers
The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th century
Amateur Historian Discovers Lost Story by ‘Dracula’ Author Bram Stoker Hiding in Plain Sight at a Dublin Library
History forgot about “Gibbet Hill” for more than a century—until a fan of the Gothic horror writer stumbled upon the haunting tale at the National Library of Ireland
This Savvy Librarian Was the True Force Behind New York’s Iconic Morgan Library
It fell to Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman whose racial identity was kept secret for decades, to catalog J.P. Morgan’s immense collection of books and art
This Lost Mozart Composition Hasn’t Been Heard for Centuries. Now, You Can Listen to It
More than 250 years after a teenage Mozart wrote “Serenade in C,” a copy of the piece has surfaced in the collections of a German library
The Brothers Grimm Did Much More Than Tell Fairy Tales
A recent discovery in a Polish library of 27 books that were thought to have been lost sheds light on the breadth of the German scholars’ work
How the Soon-to-Reopen Folger Shakespeare Library Came to Be
A full 82 copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio will go on view as the renovated Washington, D.C. institution makes its debut
Overdue Book Returned to Colorado Library After 105 Years
The Fort Collins library waived the fine, which totaled over $14,000 when adjusted for inflation
A Book Bound With Human Skin Spent 90 Years in Harvard’s Library. Now, the Binding Has Been Removed
In the late 19th century, a French physician took the skin, without consent, from a female psychiatric patient who had died
These Were the Most Challenged Books in America Last Year
Titles with LGBTQ themes dominated the American Library Association’s newly released list
How Ben Franklin Invented the Library as We Know It
Books were rare and expensive in colonial America, but the founding father had an idea
Book Banning Attempts Are at Record Highs
A new report from the American Library Association found that the number of challenged titles increased by 65 percent in 2023
You Can Spend the Night in the Secret Library Tucked Inside St. Paul’s Cathedral
Airbnb is offering two guests the chance to sleep amongst 22,000 books in an area normally off-limits to visitors
Public Libraries Reveal the Most Borrowed Books From 2023
Titles that appeared on multiple lists include “Lessons in Chemistry,” “Spare” and “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow”
An Early Charlotte Brontë Story Speaks to the Author’s Lifelong Fascination With the Supernatural
The 1830 account details an eerie encounter with a stranger who predicted the death of the writer’s father
Untold Stories of American History
The Bible That Stopped a Bullet
In 1863, a New Testament tucked in the pocket of Union soldier Charles W. Merrill prevented a musket ball from mortally wounding him
Why Historical Markers Matter
Few realize that the approval process for these outdoor signs varies widely by state and organization, enabling unsanctioned displays to slip through
Trove of Rare Renaissance Books Could Fetch $25 Million at Auction
T. Kimball Brooker has amassed a collection of more than 1,300 texts from the 16th century
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