In the main salon of the collector Giorgio Taroni’s home on Italy’s Lake Como, a chestnut staircase curves around a nook ...

Mamdani, New York City's first Muslim mayor, will put his hand on a Quran that belonged to Arturo Schomburg, a historian and ...

Zohran Mamdani borrowed a historic Quran from the Schomburg Center for his inauguration, now on view at the New York Public ...

19th-Century Music publishes articles on all aspects of music having to do with the "long" nineteenth century. The period of coverage has no definite boundaries; it can extend well backward into the ...

A late 19th century library supply catalog provides a glimpse into how libraries might have dealt with space issues over a century ago Alexia MacClain It seems as if libraries have always had the ...

A collection of 150-year-old photos, etchings and books, the historical library’s exhibition “Capitalism by Gaslight: The Shadow Economies of 19th Century America” traces the economics of thievery.

Educator and activist Elizabeth Brooks posing with singer and activist Emma Hackley (in spectacles) in five different portraits (1885) (courtesy William Henry Richards Collection, Library of Congress ...

Tea was an important part of life in the 19th century, and was used as a backdrop for political, business, and societal gatherings, as well as for informal gatherings and formal business negotiations, ...

Philadelphia’s popular landmarks tell a story about the city. They serve as a physical embodiment of a familiar history. Independence Hall shows the birth of a nation. The art museum steps remind the ...

The examination of race and identity can be seen throughout literature, and increasingly today. In her debut novel, The Library Thief, Kuchenga Shenjé explores these concepts — and the associated ...