Kalamazoo-based African-American builder and mason Albert White helped construct many historically significant buildings in the city in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors.

A late 19th century library supply catalog provides a glimpse into how libraries might have dealt with space issues over a century ago Alexia MacClain It seems as if libraries have always had the ...

Like most bookworms, Ann Duprey keeps a pile of books she intends to read at some point. Even her husband jokes about it, saying, " 'You’ll never read these all in your lifetime.' " But the retired ...

As personal libraries grew in the 19th and 20th centuries, so did bookplates. A way of establishing ownership, the little pasted pieces of paper pressed on inside covers evolved into miniature works ...