Congrats to "LIFE OF A MAN" by Salma Garcia, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬 "In a man-centered world, where do women fit in?" A striking juxtaposition of …
Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928). A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America, directed by Melville Weber and James Sibley Watson, Jr…
When Kierkegaard Got Cancelled Mocked by Copenhagen’s most notorious scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of deeply personal attacks and the silence of friends and allies. By Daniel Goodman https…
New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered …
Was Emerson the True Father of American Literature? Bruce Nichols on the American Renaissance of Prose and Poetry in the 1850s https://lithub.com/was-emerson-the-true-father-of-american-literature/ Em…
Government information is public memory – and it needs protecting. The Preservation of Government Information: A Call to Action, developed through the 2026 Information Stewardship Forum in support of …
What happens when access to culture depends on platforms that can simply remove it? 🕳️ In VANISHING CULTURE, Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland, and Katie Livingston explore how licensing, corporate control…
What If Cephalopods Are the Closest Thing to Alien Intelligence? What if the most profound encounter with a truly alien intelligence isn’t light-years away, but lurking beneath the waves of our oceans…
Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder by Rory Carroll http…
@dandylover1 May I ask you another question, if you don't mind of course? Concerning accessibility, you mentioned that you download our text files. I wonder if you could acess the following book which…
A Thousand-Year History of Hormuz The speed at which information moves has changed. The structure and vulnerabilities of a crucial global trade route have not. by Menachem Butler https://www.tabletmag…
Why Does Music in Science Fiction Sound Like That? Imagining the sound of other worlds has a long past—and persistent creative limits. By: Angelica Frey https://daily.jstor.org/why-does-music-in-scien…
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE DIVORCEE (1930) 💔 🎬 In this pivotal “equalizing” scene, Norma Shearer’s Jerry tells her unfaithful husband that she has taken a lover of her own, confronting Hollyw…
'A remarkable time capsule': The enchanting history of Oxford University's 750-year-old medieval library Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been used by everyone from cel…
Meet These Delightful Bookshop Cats (and One Dog!) Daphne du Meowier Introduces Us to Just Some of the Pets That Populate Bookstores Across the Country https://lithub.com/meet-these-delightful-booksho…
Happy 100th birthday to Harper Lee! Let's celebrate it. April 28, 1926 saw the birth of Harper Lee, best known as the author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, Lee achieved …
The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional is one of the most studied decisions in American history. But the briefs filed in Brown v. Boar…
#OTD in 1667, John Milton sells the copyright to Paradise Lost for only 10 pounds. https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-27-2026/ Works of John Milton at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1…
📅 TOMORROW 📅 PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI (Future Knowledge #podcast) There’s still time to join this live discussion on AI, publishers, and the future of our digital memory. Our discussion fea…
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is an early exploration of ‘romance fraud’ Although romance fraud is a 21st-century term, through the character of Havisham, Dickens clearly demonstrated its ofte…
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