Bidding on the former Wadsworth and Fiske elementary schools ends this month, and local leaders are seeking ideas on how to ...

In 2016, President Barack Obama appointed Carla Hayden as the 14th Librarian of Congress, making her the first woman and the ...

Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy walked into the papal library in July 1963 with millions of Americans holding their ...

In 1946, an award-winning author wrote one of the first children’s books about racism. The main character was a young African ...

Tara Campbell unlocked the front door of the Bricklayers Hall, a no-frills brick building on South Union Street in downtown Montgomery, half a mile from the white-domed Alabama Capi ...

Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas debuts his new Chicago Reader column with a look at the city’s Catholic connections beyond ...

Bringing two lives together is one of the hardest things to do ... records related to Barack or Michelle Obama returned no results. (The two married in Chicago, Illinois, which is within Cook ...

With more than 350 artworks taking over the entire venue at Wrightwood 659, the exhibit is back at the scale the curator ...

For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected, from the era of quills and parchment to boxes of paper to the cloud, safeguarding ...

The anonymous “Paddle 1231” won most of the priciest artifacts, including a lock of Lincoln’s hair and a pair of ...

Earlier in the afternoon, tornadic storms impacted St. Louis, Missouri, and now there is a Dust Storm Warning issued for Chicago, Illinois. Yes, Chicago. Dust storm warning for Chicago ...