It was a wonderful story. America s first printing press, used to publish the Freeman s Oath in 1639, was, centuries later, rescued from an old barn in Windsor. The famous Bay Psalm Book, known as the ...

In The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco describes a labyrinthine monastic library large enough to lose oneself in. The novelist didn't mention how many books filled its rooms, but John O. Ward of the ...

On April 19, our country will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. As the two towns debate the true birthplace of the Revolutionary War, we might redirect our gaze ...

Stored and forgotten in a cramped closet in a South End basement, a 200-year-old printing press — 600 pounds of iron, wood, and plenty of dust — lurched recently toward a new chapter in its long and ...