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Andrew Carnegie Set Up A New Kind Of Charity
Investor's Business Daily· 2 years agoAndrew Carnegie was the richest man in the world. But he didn't want to claim the title for long. Instead, the business titan decided to give away his...
On the Market: Old Carnegie library for sale in Ohio for just under $125K
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 4 months agoOne of thousands of public libraries that 19th-century industrialist Andrew Carnegie financed is...
What hundreds of American public libraries owe to Carnegie's disdain for inherited wealth
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Girard, Kansas Carnegie library. National Park ServiceThe same ethos that turned Andrew Carnegie...
Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Let Us Descend’ is among the finalists for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
theGrio via AOL· 7 months agoThe medals are presented by the American Library Association and given for fiction and nonfiction,...
Palm Beach Police sergeant receives Carnegie Medal for saving distressed woman
The Palm Beach Post via Yahoo News· 6 months agoSurrounded by her peers and family, Palm Beach Police Sgt. Kendall Reyes was honored Friday for her...
Mansions, parties, and fine dining: Vintage photos show how America's wealthiest business tycoons...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMembers of New York high society John S. Milburn, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Stuyvesant Fish,...
Roxanna Asgarian's 'We Were Once a Family' and Amanda Peters' 'The Berry Pickers' win library medals
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNEW YORK — In the childhood home of author Roxanna Asgarian, there were restrictions on how often...
Local man dies trying to save nephew’s life; Family presented with prestigious medal
WHIO via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe family of a local man has been presented with a prestigious award after he died trying to save...
Rare historic photos reveal what America's Gilded Age was really like
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe tale of an era Photo Recall/Alamy Railroad barons, gargantuan East Coast mansions and elaborate...
'We will stay in contact forever': Hope Mills father, son awarded Carnegie Medal for heroic act
The Fayetteville Observer via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA Hope Mills father and son have earned recognition for their attempt to save an elderly neighbor...