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Thomas Jefferson’s personally owned and signed copy of Cicero’s Ciceronis Oratione (“Orations”), in a six-volume set, acquired at auction directly from his personal library in 1829. Estimate: $150,000 ...
F rom the time Jackie Kennedy first viewed the White House in 1941 as a child she felt more could be done to capture the ...
I've Venn Thinking — a creative card game that lets players compete to find the funniest similarities between an unlikely ...
That’s Powell’s City of Books in Portland – a bibliophile’s paradise so vast it requires a map, and yes, they actually provide one. The term “bookstore” feels woefully inadequate here, like calling ...
You’ve just discovered Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester, one of New England’s most delightfully unexpected architectural ...
A federal appeals court ruled that a public librarian’s decision to pull certain books off the shelves can’t be challenged ...
The ruling overturns a decades-old precedent barring the removal of library books “simply because they dislike the ideas ...
The federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the first time Friday that public library patrons have no right to receive ...
At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth. By Walker Mimms If the past is a foreign country, as L.P. Hartley wrote, customs make it so.
Why is this process so poorly handled?" said Mr Lee. Bags of books from the Yale-NUS Library loaded onto the lorry, on May 20, 2025. (Photo: Mr Lee) Yale-NUS alumnus Chloe Ang said she first ...
Hundreds of books from the Yale-NUS College library were reportedly sent for disposal or recycling on Tuesday, triggering an outcry from its alumni and students. Photos and videos showed books ...
Silverstone is the drive behind the Hive, a nontraditional library centered on arts education and free, public event spaces.