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Overview Stephen King has published close to 70 books in the last 50 years. In 2021, he and his wife Tabitha collected all of his available manuscript drafts into a secure, climate-controlled archive attached to their home in Bangor, Maine. Bicks was the first scholar to be granted extended access [...]

Overview How Can Book Bindings Sing? will examine Renaissance books bound in fragments of medieval music manuscripts. These “singing bindings” are hundreds of years older than the printed text blocks inside them, and the texts are on mathematics, physics, or astronomy and absolutely not on music. How is that possible? [...]

Overview New York City bureaucrats have been creating records that document its government since the first Dutch settlers established a colony here in 1624. The records now total more than 250,000 cubic feet and are preserved in the Municipal Archives, one of the largest archival repositories in North America. Mr. [...]