How a team of scholars decrypted a secret language—and discovered the last known work of the American theologian. By Ben Schreckinger For more than a century, a small, leather-bound book has sat collecting dust and attracting little attention in a gray ...
Cambridge University Library is to release digital versions of some of the most significant religious manuscripts in the world – following on from last year’s release of Isaac Newton’s manuscripts and notebooks. Launched in December last year (2011), the Cambridge ...
Video : Pacifica Radio Archives: Guardians of Our History from Dog Park on Vimeo. Before there was MSNBC and Current TV, before there was The Huffington Post or The Daily Show, before there was the progressive blogosphere, before there was (and ...
October 31, 2012—The Harvard Library plans to share several collections with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)—becoming the first DPLA content hub. The Harvard Library contains a wealth of special collections, and is dedicated to providing open access to them, ...
Beyond the black steel gates, past guards and through the large double doors is a place where books are still cradled. The Smithsonian Institution’s Book Conservation Lab in Landover is where a small team of book conservators and technicians conserve and ...
“Roberson Museum and Science Center will host a special two-day exhibition to mark the 150thAnniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Thursday, November 1 from 12-8pm and Friday, November 2 from 12-pm. The exhibition offers an unprecedented display of the only ...
Before there were satellites or weather data transmitters or computer databases, there were Arctic sea voyages and sailors dutifully recording weather observations in ship logs. Now a new crowdsourcing effort could soon make a wealth of weather data from these ...
Nearly a million documents, including drafts of famous war speeches and cigar bills, have been digitised Nearly a million documents that make up Winston Churchill’s archive, ranging from school reports, drafts of his famous wartime speeches, to cigar bills, have been ...
An illustration from a volume in Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections has made the cover of College & Research Libraries News. This monthly newsmagazine, published by the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, ...
The National Archives has set up a new online portal that provides an overview of declassification activity in and around the Archives, with input from the National Declassification Center, the Public Interest Declassification Board, the Presidential Libraries, and the Interagency Security ...