Four Centuries News Today

Camille Dungy. Image courtesy KU News Service By EMILY RYANKU News Ser

“Getting Around Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit,” located in the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center in the Boston Public Library, is the first transit map exhibit at the center and displays more than 400 years of the Boston’s transit system’s history through an extensive collection of maps, primary documents and...

Students, professors and community members will kick off Penn State Altoona’s 24th annual African American Read-In this weekend with the theme Black ecologies, which celebrates environmental writing by Black authors. Exploring topics ranging from urban nature to geography to environmental science, this multi-day event aims to engage attendees with both contemporary and historical works by […]

Maison Ferrand stands as one of the worlds premier boutique producers of fine spirits, pioneering the historical spirits movement.

"Getting Around Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit" opened at the Boston Public Library Leventhal Map & Education Center in September

Half of Shakespeare’s plays would have been lost without it – and it is now among the most valuable in the world

Kathryn Miles interviews award-winning author, editor, and teacher Camille T. Dungy: a fascinating and important conversation.

(1) Just got word my mother’s going back to the hospital this afternoon. So if you have suggestions for links that belonged in today’s Scroll, I welcome them in comments. (2) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS. [Compiled by Cat Eldridge.] Born October 16, 1854 -- Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900. Writer, Journalist, Playwright, and Poet from Ireland whose

Presenters were limited to one PowerPoint slide and a three-minute project pitch that was reviewed by a committee focusing on three criteria to determine the top three pitches, which were awarded start-up funding.

This year, the lighting ceremony is coupled with another historical commemoration — the kick-off celebration of the 400th founding anniversary of the City of