Category: Libraries
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.
A Bibliophile’s Peek at Benjamin Harrison’s Library
If you were touring the Benjamin Harrison home and museum on July 25, 2015 and you took the 3:30 tour, I am so, so sorry. I don’t know what came over me. The informative docent asked his well-placed questions of […]
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