A Child’s World: Sloane Crosley on the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield “Even in Mansfield stories where children are not centered or present, this is their world. Her adults never quite grow up, …
🧶 Today is World Wide Knit in Public Day 🌍, a reminder that preservation is not passive. It's made stitch by stitch. Check out Mlle. Riego de la Branchardière’s THE KNITTING BOOK (1848), part of our V…
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#OTD in 1752 Frances Burney was born. She "was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In all, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty-five volumes of journals and letters. She has ga…
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How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician by Scott Neuman https://www.npr.org/2026/06/11/nx-s1-5848013/algorithm-word-week-etymology The Concise Book of Calculation by Rest…
After the Concept of Peaceful Disobedience Was Established in America, It Traveled Around the World Before Taking Hold “Force may subdue, but love gains”: The Quaker practice of conscientious objectio…
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LADY OF SCANDAL (1930) 🎩 This pre-Code romantic drama follows a young actress whose rise into high society pulls her between ambition, reputation, and love, where s…
The Cutest Anteater You've Never Heard Of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfBplxJe3jg #animals
Anatomy of a Galileo Forgery It was hailed as a historic discovery—until a trail of clues revealed one of the rare-book world’s most audacious scams. By: Matthew Wills https://daily.jstor.org/anatomy-…
Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist The Remarkable Life and Times of George Forster https://lithub.com/andrea-wulf-considers-the-rare-humanity-of-an-eighteenth-…
CONGRATS AGAIN to "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME REIMAGINED" by Talissa Mehringer, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅 A short music-film remix celebrating 19…
Service Changes at Project Gutenberg On Monday, June 15, we will be making some modifications to the official Project Gutenberg mirrors. We will be sunsetting the rsync mirror at aleph.pglaf.org (use …
Service Changes at PG: Also on June 15, the metadata files du-sk, ls-R, and related files will no longer be generated and available as we have improved our mirror metadata and introduced a metadata.js…
The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought Tom Zoellner on the Antebellum Precedent of Trump-Era Censorship https://lithub.com/the-side-that-won-the-civil-…
@Lionesslady I don't have to buy it, instead you can download it at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16
No fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters? Peter Pan, Christopher Robin and Alice in Wonderland … being the star of a classic story might seem like a drea…
Lessons in Chemistry, 19th-Century Style She wrote the bestseller that made young people fall in love with science By Regan Penaluna https://nautil.us/lessons-in-chemistry-19th-century-style-1281763 B…
Those sparkle emojis ✨ in AI apps aren't just decoration. They're part of a broader design language that encourages us to see software as more human, capable, and autonomous than it really is. Policy …
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