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Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has chosen the winners of the 2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards, a new program originated and sponsored by philanthropist David M. Rubenstein.
See the recipients after the jump.
New York—On Thursday, October 17 Swann Galleries will conduct an auction of Fine Photographs & Photobooks that offers fascinating crime-related photographs — from mugshot albums to crime-scene images — from the co
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The familiar marble of downtown Nashville’s Legislative Plaza will come alive this fall in celebration of the written word. The Southern Festival of Books, widely recognized as a fixture of fall in the South, is set to take place Oct. 11-13.
Activities in-and-around the plaza…
(Boston, MA, September 2013) This fall, the Boston Athenæum celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its pioneering Conservation Laboratory, the first established in a library, with free lectures, a panel discussion, and a public open house.
New York—Among the American Revolution material in Swann Galleries’ October 10 auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana is the wartime diary of Connecticut officer John Hutchinson Buell, the first substantial manuscript diary by an i
The Library of Congress on Oct. 14 will open "Mapping a New Nation: Abel Buell’s Map of the United States, 1784," an exhibition featuring the first map of the newly independent United States that was compiled, printed and published in America by an American.
London — Christie's is pleased to announce the first London sale of European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries which will take place 2 October 2013. The sale includes various properties from continental Royal and Noble collections, each displaying characteristics that…
New York, NY, September 16, 2013—The genius of Leonardo da Vinci—draftsman, painter, scientist, inventor—continues to captivate us almost five hundred years after his death. This fall, the Morgan Library & Museum will present a unique opportunity to encounter this great Renaissance master.
London, UK, September 2013 — The Folio Society (www.foliosociety.com), publisher of beautiful illustrated books, today announces the publication of a new anthology of Thomas Jefferson’s writings, An Expression of the American Mind. Editors at The Folio Society collaborated with Jefferson biographer…
