The Library of Alexandria was one of the most important centers of knowledge in the ancient world. It is believed to have ...

Starting Monday, the city of Alexandria will start flood mitigation work around Old Town. The area floods frequently.

Michigan, Lansing City Council members will hold a public hearing on a proposed data center moratorium, in Aurelius a dispute ...

Few people have been able to enjoy John James Audubon’s monumental work “The Birds of America,” so the public library made it ...

A rare draft of the Declaration of Independence, now on display at the Library of Congress, was written by Thomas Jefferson ...

People are reading fewer and fewer books. The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch discusses what a post-literate world might look like.

Among the many treasures of the New York Public Library are tens of thousands of restaurant menus.

Also this week, Nvidia inks a D.C. sublease, GID acquires a Court House apartment building, Pulte Homes takes a piece of a ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

Kimberly Evans-Reed was confused. She couldn’t understand why her brother was being escorted out of a building by a police officer. But her mother told her to look again at the photograph. It was ...

Don’t let its pre-revolutionary architecture fool you—the city’s brick-lined exteriors pack a cosmopolitan punch.