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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Milwaukee Public Library’s Central Library branch opened in 1898, designed by local architects as a home to both the Milwaukee Public Library and the Milwaukee Public Museum. Central Library was ...

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 ...

Dustin Shilling spent the past several months rummaging through countless documents and photos in order to showcase a major part of Sewickley’s history. The more he researched, the more his interest ...