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Be they public, private or imagined, libraries offer an expansive world
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner· 6 days agoThe book has a definite British perspective and begins with “The Ten Largest Libraries in The World”...
One fun fact you've never learned about each of the 50 states
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNEVADA: Nearly half of all the wild horses in the US are in Nevada. Wild horses.James Marvin...
Lenawee County History: Research not limited to historian toolbox
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMore newspapers both domestic and abroad are being digitized, enabling access from one’s own home....
More and More Department Stores Are Closing Their Doors. These Are the Ones We're Most Disappointed...
Cheapism via AOL· 5 days agoWanamaker's, Montgomery Ward, Barneys, and Marshall Field's. The palaces of retail legend once...
Maxine Kumin
GBH News· 4 days agoKumin published her first collection of poems, Halfway, in 1961. Often compared to the poet Robert Frost, Kumin uses spare, direct language ...
What America's First Board Game Tells Us About the Aspirations of a Young Nation
Smithsonian Magazine· 5 days agoThis growing cardboard empire was on my mind when I visited the American Antiquarian Society in...
The Porter Prize | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 7 days agoIt was founded in honor of Dr. Ben Drew Kimpel, chairman of the English Department at the University of< ...
WWII parachute wedding gowns inspire modern couture
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoDuring WWII, surplus parachute fabric was often used for bridal gowns. Eighty years later, one designer is paying homage to the brides of WWII with her...
Mapping Asian American history in the nation’s capital - WTOP News
WTOP Washington· 5 days agoUnion Market, formerly Florida Market, has been supplying food products to D.C. businesses and...
How a ‘border ruffian’ who supported slavery got a monument honoring him in a KC park
The Kansas City Star· 4 days agoThe reader asked What’s Your KCQ?, a partnership between The Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Public Library, ...
