THE MAN or THE RENAISSANCE—Ralph Roeder—Viking ($3.50). History, defined politely as “the formal record of the past,” is really organized gossip; but among the historians who retail it there are ...

A treasure trove of 16th-century Renaissance books in their original bindings is expected to fetch $25 million when it goes on the auction block at Sotheby’s beginning in October, with price estimates ...

Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport has a 43-year-old used bookstore. It’s a hub for bibliophiles who need more of the library and books. The bookstore serves as a great pass time for ...

What if the pages of an old book could tell us who touched them, what medicines they made, and even how their bodies responded to treatment? Renaissance medical recipe books are filled with ...

Pyramids! Vikings! Gladiators! Explore the Wonders of the Pre-Modern World! This interdisciplinary minor is focused on material, intellectual, sociopolitical, literary, and linguistic approaches to ...

With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...

A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the genius who inspired a cultural awakening. By Jonathan Healey Jonathan Healey is ...

If you're walking through the main concourse at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport and catch a whiff of bibliosmia — the smell of old books — chances are you've found Renaissance Books. Most ...

How the women who ran libraries during the Harlem Renaissance built collections and, just as important, communities of writers and readers. By Jennifer Schuessler It was a banner day in the history of ...