The famed, Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States.

Schlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality.

The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged 30 years and younger. Our goal, at the time, was to expand the popular perception of who book coll...

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

Printed Matter is pleased to present New Openings Against Old Surfaces: On Gordon Matta-Clark’s Walls Paper, the first exhibition focused specifically on the publishing output of pioneering artist Gor...

The new collection at Harvard features more than 120 oral histories recorded by Ronald Williams II for his forthcoming book on this history of TransAfrica, a former foreign policy advocacy organizatio...

The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028.

When the 1991 Mount Unzen eruption began, volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft did not run. Sara Dosa's Fire of Love documentary analyzes their fatal transition from safe red volcanoes to deadly grey ones. Their archival footage reveals an absolute surrender to the planet's wildest force.

The artifact, among the most prized visual accounts of Aztec history, will be on display in Mexico City for three months

Given the increase in the Holy See’s bibliographic holdings and documentary production, the Pope expands the Vatican’s archive and library, and asks ...

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

In October, Abigail Swingen joins Yale Library as the W. S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director of Lewis Walpole Library.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, American Civil Liberties Union, and pro bono counsel Yetter Coleman LLP have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Texas A&M University  Sys...

Convention 2026 planning tools.

Tucson Zine Fest co-founders Elisa Mask and Zac Finger hosted a workshop on Daniel "Des" Estrada, a zine maker sentenced to 30 years for moving a box of political pamphlets.

Matthew Kirschenbaum announces the arrival of the “textpocalypse,” and considers what it will mean for liberal societies.

Arthur Sze’s signature project as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry launches this week with a national tour encouraging Americans to engage with poetry written in foreign languages.

A peer-reviewed record of the contemporary biodiversity crisis.

A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States

“Staff should be able to afford to live in the city they work in,” said one of the workers organized with UAW Local 2110.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Emily St. John Mandel about her new novel, "Exit Party." Set in the near future, it's an exploration of identity involving doppelgangers and a mysterious painting.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

A microfilm reader at Northeastern's library helped one student finish a century-spanning project her iPhone storage could not handle.

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September is National Library Card Sign Up Month. Here’s a list of libraries where you can sign up for a library card . . . even if you don’t live there!