Browse 5.8 million works of art at the Last Museum by Rob Beschizza https://boingboing.net/2026/06/29/browse-5-8-million-works-of-art-at-the-last-museum.html Last Museum: https://lastmuseum.com/ Books…
How a Childhood Bookmobile Sparked My Love of Reading Brenda C. Wilson Remembers the Start of Her Reading Journey https://lithub.com/how-a-childhood-bookmobile-sparked-my-love-of-reading/ Books in Ban…
🇺🇸 As America marks its 250th anniversary, the Internet Archive is preserving & providing free access to materials documenting the nation’s founding and 250 years of Independence celebrations. We’re ki…
How Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” Inspired the Beat Movement With the 1957 publication of Kerouac’s On the Road, critics believed America’s “lost” literary generation of the 1920s had been overtaken by…
I have spent the past 6 months reading hundreds of poems by young people – I was surprised to find hope, not despair by Sean Murphy https://theconversation.com/i-have-spent-the-past-6-months-reading-h…
At a Pivotal Moment of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass Delivered a Speech That Reframed What Was at Stake if Slavery Stood In “The Mission of the War,” America’s incomparable orator helped turn publ…
Ethel Moustacchi (1933-2016) Ethel Moustacchi is one of the 72 women whose names will be inscribed on the Eiffel Tower in 2027, alongside the 72 male scientists that Eiffel had chosen in 1889. But who…
Obstinate Daughters: shining a light on the women who sparked the American Revolution A revealing new book, eight years in the making, singles out rebellious women from US history whose stories have o…
This week, #ALAAC26 marks the 150th anniversary of the American Library Association. 📚🌐 While the web isn't nearly that old, the #WaybackMachine lets you revisit conferences past through archived snap…
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? The History Behind the World's Most Famous Joke The world's best-known joke has roots in 19th-century humor—and may have pioneered a form of comedy now known as ant…
We read an entire scroll — without ever opening it PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end. https://scrollprize.org/fir…
The divine Dante At 700, Dante’s Divine Comedy is as modern as ever – a lesson in spiritual intelligence that makes us better at being alive by Mark Vernon https://aeon.co/essays/the-fractal-conscious…
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🧵 Thank you to everyone who joined us for MOROCCO (1930) at the Internet Archive! 🎩 From Marlene Dietrich's iconic Top Hat & Tails look to the many stylish attendees who arrived dressed for the occasi…
Theodore Roosevelt Survived an Assassination Attempt Because a Speech Tucked Inside His Pocket Slowed the Bullet. He Insisted on Delivering His Remarks Anyway “I am very much uninterested in whether I…
Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect At the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star’s chromosphere brightens. by John Timmer https://arstechnica.com/scien…
A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W Danny Bate on the Linguistic History of Our Alphabet https://lithub.com/a-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&u…
Project Gutenber is attending #ALAAC26! Enjoy it @gluejar www.gutenberg.org #ebooks #publicdomain
