The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...

The New Shadow, as Tolkien had titled it, was a very different kind of story from its predecessor – and that’s part of why he ...

This trailblazer was responsible for some of the country’s most striking civic and university campus structures ...

The Thaddeus Stevens Museum’s expansion on Chambersburg Street next month will include an exhibit about the kidnapping of ...

Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a ...

The Morgan Library & Museum surveys the astonishing life and career of its founding director, Belle da Costa Greene.

Among several rare books and manuscripts presented there is one incunabula, The Book of Prophets, printed by the Soncino ...

About a year after Joan Didion's death in 2021, the New York Public Library (NYPL) began the process to become the stewards ...

Victor Hugo dismissed his drawings as mere things made in the margins of his manuscripts Now, a Royal Academy exhibition ...

Miles Franklin went undercover to investigate the ‘servant question’. The exploitation she saw continues today.

An ancestor of the bacteria responsible for plague has been found in the tooth of a sheep that lived nearly 4,000 years ago in a Bronze Age human settlement, scientists report in a new preprint study.

“She saved the world,” Johansson said of her ‘Avengers’ character. “Let her have her hero moment" Disney/THA/Shutterstock Scarlett Johansson has moved on from the Marvel Cinematic ...