Kwasi Hope Agyeman records an episode of his virtual series, ''Hidden History,'' at the Library Company of Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Way back in September 2021 — what feels like eons ago on the ...

The Library Company of Philadelphia is the oldest lending library in America, and also its oldest cultural institution, founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, among others in Philadelphia. Created ...

Important dates in the history of the downtown branch of the New Hanover County Public Library. 1901: Organization sponsored by U.S. steel baron Andrew Carnegie, which built more than 2,500 libraries ...

It’s hard to beat the setting of the historic Lakeport Carnegie Library in Lake County. The Park Street building is well over 100 years old and is set upon three acres in the heart of downtown near ...

Most of us think about Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat or Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington when we think about the civil rights movement. Lesser known is the issue of library ...

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… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. For five decades, Bemidji’s public library operated in a one-story, ...