The Kern County Historical Society has partnered with the Kern County Library for a talk about the history of the library and ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Kwasi Hope Agyeman records an episode of his virtual series, ''Hidden History,'' at the Library Company of Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Way back in September 2021 — what feels like eons ago on the ...

It’s hard to beat the setting of the historic Lakeport Carnegie Library in Lake County. The Park Street building is well over 100 years old and is set upon three acres in the heart of downtown near ...

Most of us think about Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat or Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington when we think about the civil rights movement. Lesser known is the issue of library ...

The Library Company of Philadelphia is the oldest lending library in America, and also its oldest cultural institution, founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, among others in Philadelphia. Created ...

On this day in history, April 24, 1800, President John Adams — the second president of the United States — approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for ...

Dustin Shilling spent the past several months rummaging through countless documents and photos in order to showcase a major part of Sewickley’s history. The more he researched, the more his interest ...

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