Month: April 2016

The Bullet That Launched a Thousand Bibliographies

Abraham Lincoln died 151 years ago yesterday. Though he was shot on April 14, he died the following morning. Presses started rolling that day and haven’t stopped over the last century and a half. Today there are an estimated 10,000-15,000 […]

Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday Gift to Us — His Library

President, Farmer, Founder, Inventor, Scientist, Librarian — Thomas Jefferson understood how books were the key to knowledge in any arena.