Library of Congress: The largest library in the world, located in Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress provides Congress with objective research to inform the legislative process, administers the ...

The two-day midwinter book sale at Fairfield's Pequot Library will feature performances from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame blues musician Mark Naftalin.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Rare book collecting, a hobby historically maintained by eccentric billionaires and wealthy universities, is now taking on ...

‘Fuli,’ by William H. Townsend. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Historians don’t know exactly why Townsend decided to draw them, only that he lived locally and sat ...

Walter White and the NAACP,' an American Experience film about an overlooked titan of the civil rights movement.

inspired by years of working with curators at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. "I walked up to the security guard," Havens recalls, "and asked how I might begin to work ...

Black historical romance novelist Beverly Jenkins is known for centering Black love throughout history. This month, her work ...

Townsend, from the Amistad trial Sketches of the Amistad Captives, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University The portraits are featured in a recently unveiled ...

How the University of Miami’s Special Collections library came to possess one of its rarest, most valuable works — three volumes of engravings of roses commissioned by Empress Josephine Bonaparte of ...