5 Classic Novels That Almost Had Completely Different Endings Would these classic tales still be as popular with different endings? By Chelsea Thatcher https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/books/cla…
“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham director of the Wayback Machine. When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history & knowleg…
Artemis II moonshot reflects a spacefaring vision present in Jules Verne’s 19th‑century novel by Anastasia Klimchynskaya https://theconversation.com/artemis-ii-moonshot-reflects-a-spacefaring-vision-p…
Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s) "At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the N…
The Suda, The Greek Encyclopedia Written in the Year 1100 By Patricia Claus https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/10/suda-byzantine-encyclopedia-written-1100/ Greek literature at PG: https://www.gutenberg…
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, ANIMAL FRIENDSHIP (1930) 🎨 🖼️ Celebrate U.S. National Pet Day with Paul Klee’s delicate, whimsical work exploring the poetic bond between humans and animals. See it in o…
#OTD in 1935 Anna Katharine Green died. "She was one of the first authors of detective fiction in the United States and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories." https:…
How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction Ed Simon Goes Back to When the Past was the Future https://lithub.com/how-amazing-stories-served-as-the-blueprint-for-american-…
Japanese researchers look at 800-year-old books and trees for signs of extreme solar events On Feb. 21, 1204, Japanese poet Fujiwara no Teika described in his diary a bizarre phenomenon: the northern …
Olivia M Ross’ "Pandora’s Aquarium (2025)" is a techno seapunk choose-your-own-adventure that links its story to the user’s webcam 🐠 Commissioned for the Internet Archive x Gray Area Trillionth Webpag…
🎶 Hear from WNYC’s Simon Close on the Public Song Project What can you create from the public domain? From poems to forgotten songs, discover how open culture becomes new music and how you can take pa…
Don't Mess With the American Badger "It's a Badger's World!" That what this 1980 Britannica film was originally titled—and we can't argue with that finding today. In this vintage educational piece, Br…
The Controversial Story of Olympias, Alexander the Great’s Powerful Mother Olympias, wife of Philip II of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great, stands out as one of the few women in Hellenistic p…
'Faithful wife', virgin or tragic martyr?: Why this 16th-Century masterpiece is not what it seems Overpainted images found hidden inside Raphael's Portrait of a Young Woman with a Unicorn help unlock …
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#OTD In 1859, Samuel Langhorne Clemens receives his steamboat pilot’s license. https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-9-2026/ Books by Mark Twain at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53 #boo…
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Math at Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg has long had an interest in mathematics, perhaps because of its timelessness. This interest has been expressed in many ways, though perhaps some of them wer…
Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day! Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore. Brittany Allen https://lithub.com/today-is-the-very-first-national-black-bookstore-da…
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