https://www.pinterest.com/pin/25825397839032338 By Dr. Jonathan Coopersmith Professor of History Texas A&M University The explosion of information technology in...
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Margaret Garcia sorts books for shelving in the new Indian Valley Library Collective. Photo by Jane Braxton...
Are there really heroes and villains in Shakespeare’s plays? Those concepts suggest that someone can be all...
A family photograph of the children’s author Roald Dahl, with his wife Patricia Neal, and children Olivia,...
Adolf Hitler and his entourage take a stroll in Paris on June 23, 1940. German Federal Archives/Wikimedia...
A Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, similar to the one Nietzsche used. Peter Mitterhofer By Dr. Matthew Kirschenbaum /...
In the galleries of Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts. Photo: Bryan C. Keene. All rights reserved...
The idea of a human’s life being divisible into distinct stages has been around for millennia, a...
A portrait of Frank Norris by the painter Ernest Clifford Peixotto, possibly Norris’ oldest friend, the two...
Detail from a hand-colored engraving of Byron’s Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva, by Edward...
In the galleries of Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts. Photo: Bryan C. Keene. All rights reserved...
Photo by Tarika Wickremeratne By Ameena Hussein For as long as I can remember we have had...
Warriors Nereid Monument / British Museum 166 By Dr. Casey Dué Hackney Director and Professor, Program in...
The modern renaissance of the lyric essay occurs in an age distinguished by increasingly interrupted experience By...
Íslendingasögur by Gilwellian – Árni Magnússon Institute By Rebecca Merkelbach Doctoral Student University of Cambridge “I’ve come...
William Shakespeare. Portrait of William Shakespeare 1564-1616. Chromolithography after Hombres y Mujeres celebres 1877, Barcelona Spain By...
Photo by Juan Javier Rivera By Dr. Rane Willerslev Professor of Anthropology, Director of Museum of Cultural...
By Ross MacFarlane Research Engagement Officer Wellcome Library This Victorian engraving captures a key scene in one...
California elementary school teacher doing shared reading. Kathleen Tomscha By Dr. Peggy Albers Professor of Language and...
Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831....
Click the Image to Find a Store That’s right folks, independent bookstores have a day – TODAY,...
From Will S. at TheLiteracySite.com: For most, the love of books starts in childhood. For others, this...
Dido and Aeneas / Creative Commons Book I of the Aeneid contains a masterfully created scene that...
By Dr. Daisy Garofalo The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Shakespeare features twin characters in two of his comedies,...
Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes a tour through Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a work which sees one of the...
Both Hamlet and ‘True Detective’’s Rust Cohle make audiences wonder whether they’re deserving of sympathy or blame....
By Dr. Ellen Stefan NASA Chief Scientist “Sweet Moon,” William Shakespeare wrote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,...
Former British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. The Spectator By Nigel Hamilton History and Biography Senior Fellow University...
Inspired by a 100-year-old diary, this founder of the Mormon feminist movement encourages everyone to keep journals...
William Shakespeare / Creative Commons By Gene Gordon / 04.18.2016 William Shakespeare died 400 years ago on...