Howard County wants to transport readers across time and space, with the debut of its newest free library. Earlier this fall, a bright blue British police box appeared in Ellicott City’s Tiber Park.

Did you know that Dec. 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day? Me neither. Born on Dec. 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey is the librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. And in an age ...

Exams were not invented by any one person, but evolved over centuries from ancient civil service tests—especially China’s imperial examinations—to modern written and standardized assessments with ...

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines ...

Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “what is art?” Art is something people make to ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for youngsters and ...

University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than ...

Detroit's battle cry reverberates with the rumble of eight cylinders — Camaros, Mustangs, Challengers, all burbling that unmistakable muscle-car thunder. The American V8 is an icon, and you'd be ...

With St. Tammany Parish Library Director Kelly LaRocca planning to step down at the end of the month, religious and political organizations are starting to look at who will steer a library system that ...

Milpitas has renamed its library in honor of a six-term mayor and one-term city councilmember who led the charge to get it built. Related Articles South Bay city approves massive Amazon warehouse amid ...

President Trump penned an executive order Thursday to form a new classification of noncareer federal employees who will be hired to “help faithfully implement the President’s policy agenda.” The ...