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The country's most significant collection of Shaker objects, out of public view for a decade, will relocate to an $18 million museum complex designed by Annabelle Selldorf. CHATHAM, N.Y. -- [...]

The new International Library for Fashion Research in Oslo, the brainchild of a fashion odd couple, has very big ambitions. The three men arrived at the front door of Steven [...]

The Brooklyn Historical Society's collection of nearly 1,500 digitized maps dates back to the 17th century. When Alexander Hamilton stepped foot in New York City in 1772, the then-village of [...]

Mr. Belafonte's personal archive, acquired by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, provides a snapshot of a life that mingled art and activism. When Harry Belafonte turned 93 [...]

Nina Simone's ''Mississippi Goddam,'' Ritchie Valens's ''La Bamba'' and the original 1968 Broadway cast album of ''Hair'' are among the 25 recordings that were placed on the Library of Congress' [...]

Events in David Sedaris's early creative life might be dated with the abbreviation ''B.C.'' -- Before Crumpet.On Dec. 22, 1992, he was an obscure performance artist and aspiring writer supporting [...]

WASHINGTON -- An original manuscript of ''Take the A Train,'' compositional sketches that were never completed and a revealing look at the royalty earnings of one of the 20th century's [...]

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem has received a vast new archive of concert footage and interviews covering 20 of jazz's most underexplored years. The Jazz [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Few people have experienced as dramatic a life as Angela Davis. Nearly 50 years ago, she was transformed from an obscure 26-year-old philosophy instructor into one of [...]

LONDON -- When James Hyman was a scriptwriter at MTV Europe, in the 1990s, before the rise of the internet, there was a practical -- as well as compulsive -- [...]

LONDON -- The sporadic release of documents from Britain's National Archives gives a glimpse into the country's inner workings. For instance, there was the revelation that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher [...]

The drawers are jammed with jokes typed on 4-by-6-inch cards -- 52 drawers, stacked waist-high, like a card catalog of a certain comedian's life's work, a library of laughs. It [...]

He was an enslaved teenager on a Jesuit plantation in Maryland on the night that the stars fell. It was November 1833, and meteor showers set the sky ablaze. His [...]

There really could be only one appropriate home for Bruce Springsteen's archives: the Jersey Shore. And indeed that is where they will go, through a partnership announced Tuesday with Monmouth [...]

Byline: Vince Townley June 06--A Cranberry-based nonprofit that has helped Western Pennsylvania residents breathe a little easier for more than a century has earned its place in history. Or at [...]

The archive of The New York Review of Books has been sold to the New York Public Library, which praised the material in an announcement as providing ''unique evidence of [...]

A stack of notebooks and letters were recently salvaged from a Los Angeles trash heap by a man who stumbled upon them. He was immediately drawn to the intricate electrical [...]

WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING for the Robert Rauschenberg archive, everything starts to resemble a Rauschenberg. The chance juxtaposition of a vibrant yellow school bus next to a red Staples sign seems [...]

The University of South Carolina has acquired two archives of material relating to Dashiell Hammett, bolstering a crime fiction collection that also includes James Ellroy's manuscripts and Elmore Leonard's Hawaiian [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDGeorge Balanchine's 1947 contract for ''Theme and Variations'' is there. It stipulated that he would be paid $25 per performance in the first year, with his compensation falling to [...]