From Helen Taft's seminal recollections to Michelle Obama's history-making memoirs, these books do the best at capturing the ...

Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws ... The tablet is the oldest written document we have, the dawn of recorded history as we know it. The Mesopotamians didn’t write ...

And then there are the “rebirths” Benjamin described: the second acts, rediscoveries, and renewals that bring older works back into circulation. Happily, unfairly forgotten treasures are in vogue.

Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library's exhibit, ...

Measuring five inches by five inches, the book combines a variety of texts written by different hands, including prayers, poems, and what the museum says is the oldest known version of the ...