“We surprise people right off the bat, standing in front of this wonderful, family-friendly ice cream shop and saying that it used to be a brothel,” says Scott Brouwer, archivist at La Crosse (Wis.) ...

The convergence of women’s history and library history at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition heralded the beginnings of a tradition of advocacy that would shape our profession for the next 100 ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In recent weeks, the digital library dedicated to preserving the internet’s history has been under attack by the internet ...

Science historians have a new resource they can tap to better understand the early days of molecular biology. The nonprofit Science History Institute (SHI) this week added a collection known as the ...

Not everyone would think that the actor Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter musings on his daily doings constitute part of “the universal body of human knowledge.” But the Library of Congress, the 210-year-old ...