Most Americans learn something about the Vietnam War at school. Fewer learn about the shadow war that was being fought alongside it. From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs ...

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the United Nations — named after the secretary general who died in 1961 — doesn’t make the news very often. Meant to be used by the professional Secretariat staff of ...

American soldiers in Paris just after the armistice of World War I. The American Library in Paris was a continuation of the work of the Library War Service, which ALA created in 1917 to supply reading ...

We’re re-running this story as part of a countdown of the year’s best personal essays. To read all the entries in the series, click here. Saturday mornings unsettle me. Especially when the weather’s ...

The fight for freedom of information and expression reaches action-packed heights in Shinsuke Sato’s adaptation of Hiro Arikawa’s best-selling novel The Library War – which has sold more than 2.8 ...

Patricia Battin was a librarian who well knew the clutter and chaos of big institutional libraries that never threw anything away. As she rose in her profession in the 1970s and ′80s, she became a ...

It is 1861 and the two men are going off to war. They sit side-by-side before the camera, their elbows and knees touching. They wear the uniform of the Confederacy and are armed with pistols, knives ...

Saturday mornings unsettle me. Especially when the weather’s good. There’s a lively farmers’ market just down the street from us, with a bluegrass band, homemade donuts and vegan tamales. It’s great, ...