Museum-quality exhibitions that tap into an institute's vast archives can also bring in a crowd. These showcases at some of ...

However, the idea never came to fruition. Tubyez Cropper and Michael Morand of Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library came together to document this story. Also hear from the ...

Pequot Library will host its popular midwinter book sale comes on Feb. 15 and 16. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame blues musician Mark Naftalin will perform on both afternoons of the sale. The sale is 9 a.m ...

Townsend during the trial, so remarkable. ‘Fuli,’ by William H. Townsend. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale ...

‘Fuli,’ by William H. Townsend. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Historians don’t know exactly why Townsend decided to draw them, only that he lived locally and sat ...

The writer is remembered, above all, for her ruthlessness. But when I went looking for it, I found something much more ...

Walter Francis White and Poppy Cannon Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. White poetically described himself as “the enigma of a Black man ...

3.The Voynich manuscript. The manuscript — which lives in the rare book library at Yale — was written in the 15th or 16th century in Central Europe. It's written in an undecipherable script ...