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"Robert Caro Reflects on ‘The Power Broker’ and Its Legacy at 50" - by Alexandra Alter, New York Times, Sept. 12, 2024
"Elton John Donates Photography Book Collection to Emory University" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Monthly, Sept. 2024
"Has the Long Friendship of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Reached Its Final Act?" - by Anupreeta Das, New York Times, Aug. 4, 2024
"Golf Course Atop Ancient Native American Earthworks to Be Removed" - by Sarah Bahr, New York Times, Aug. 1, 2024
"Museum of Natural History Says It Is Repatriating 124 Human Remains" - by Zachary Small, New York Times, July 26, 2024
"Outage for Microsoft Users Knocks Out Systems for Airlines and Hospitals in Chaotic Day" - by Adam Satariano, Derrick Bryson Taylor, Remy Tumin and Danielle Kaye, New York Times, July 19, 2024
"I Keep the Family Tree — And I’m Flummoxed About Whom to Include" - by Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, July 19, 2024
"A New Museum Specializes in Black Genealogy. Here’s What I Found Out About Myself." - by Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, July 18, 2024
"'Why Butler?' Community grapples with the aftermath of the Trump rally shooting" - by Megan Tomasic, Kinnia Cheuk and Jordan Anderson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 14, 2024
“Is Cutting Off Your Family Good Therapy?” - by Ellen Barry, New York Times, July 14, 2024
"Berlin Honors Earliest Settlers, Whose Bones Shared Their Secrets" - by Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, July 10, 2024
"Deaccessioning of Library Books Goes to Court" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Monthly, July 2024
"How the Soon-to-Reopen Folger Shakespeare Library Came to Be" - by Andrea Mays and James L. Swanson, Smithsonian, June 2024
"Benjamin Franklin Was the Nation’s First Newsman" - by Adam Smyth, Smithsonian, June 2024
"Amid Challenges, Small New York City Museums Are Closing Their Doors" - by Zachary Small, New York Times, June 28, 2024
"Famine Drove Jamestown Settlers to Eat Native Dogs, DNA Reveals" - by Carl Zimmer, New York Times, June 29, 2024
"The Digital World Is a Powder Keg. Julian Assange Lit the Fuse." - by Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, June 29, 2024
"The Meme-ification of Anthony Bourdain" - by Becca Schuh, New York Times, June 26, 2024
"Today’s Teenagers Have Invented a Language That Captures the World Perfectly" - by Stephen Marche, New York Times, June 25, 2024
"The Folger Library Wants to Reintroduce You to Shakespeare" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, June 21, 2024
"How Black Librarians Helped Create Generations of Black Literature" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, June 19, 2024
"Who Owns Alexander the Great? It’s a Diplomatic Minefield" – by Andrew Higgins, New York Times, June 19, 2024
"Forty years after drafting Mario Lemieux, the Penguins feel his impact every day" - by Rob Rossi, New York Times, June 17, 2024
"I Reread a Book That Changed My Life, but I’d Changed, Too" - by Margaret Renkl, New York Times, June 3, 2024
"Archival Treasures ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’" - by Terence McGinley, New York Times, June 2, 2024
"At MoMA, Braddock artist LaToya Ruby Frazier asks what our monuments should be" - by Holland Carter, New York Times/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 2, 2024
"Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling" - by Nico Grant and Katie Robertson, New York Times, June 1, 2024
"MLB integrates Negro League statistics into all-time record book with Josh Gibson now career batting average leader" - by Melissa Alonso, David Close, Dalia Faheid and Wayne Sterling, CNN, May 29, 2024
"Step Aside, DNA. RNA Has Arrived." - by Thomas Cech, New York Times, May 29, 2024
"The Night That Sotheby’s Was Crypto-Punked" - by Zachary Small, New York Times, May 19, 2024
"Melinda French Gates to Resign From Gates Foundation" - by Anupreeta Das and Santul Nerkar, New York Times, May 13, 2024
"Many of Allegheny County’s historical records are slowly rotting away" - by David S. Rotenstein, NEXT pittsburgh, May 15, 2024
"Christie’s Website Is Brought Down by Hackers Days Before $840 Million Auctions" - by Zachary Small, New York Times, May 10, 2024
"Schools in One Virginia County to Reinstate Confederate Names" - by Campbell Robertson, New York Times, May 10, 2024
"Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness" - by Gina Kolata, New York Times, May 6, 2024
"Rare Editions of Pushkin Are Vanishing From Libraries Around Europe" - by Rachel Donadio, New York Times, May 1, 2024
"When a Pittsburgher went to Chicago to beat France" - by Mary Lynn Davidek Alpino, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 28, 2024
"Exploring Pittsburgh’s Legacy of Steel" - by Leslie Wayne, New York Times, April 27, 2024
"A Historian Makes Peace With Her Own History" - by Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, April 9, 2024
"Pittsburgh is Named a Top 100 ‘Unexpected’ World Destination'" - by Virginia Linn, Pittsburgh Magazine, April 4, 2024
"What the Bridge Meant to Baltimore" - by Anna Betts and JoAnna Daemmrich, New York Times, April 1, 2024
"A New Chapter for Irish Historians’ ‘Saddest Book’" - by Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, April 1, 2024
"George Washington family secrets revealed by DNA from unmarked 19th century graves" - by Mindy Weisberger, CNN, March 29, 2024
"How the Key Bridge Collapsed in Baltimore: Maps and Photos" - by Weiyi Cai, Agnes Chang, Lauren Leatherby, Lazaro Gamio, Leanne Abraham and Scott Reinhard, New York Times, March 26, 2024
"Why Rare Book Collectors Like the Personal Touch" - by Joel Silver, Fine Books & Collections, Spring 2024
"Down the Rabbit Hole in Search of a Few Frames of Irish American History" - by Dan Barry, New York Times, March 15, 2024
"David Bordwell, Scholar Who Demystified the Art of Film, Dies at 76" - by Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, March 8, 2024
"How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future" - by David Streitfeld, New York Times, Feb. 28, 2024
"Yiddish Book Center Announces Retirement of Founder and President Aaron Lansky" - Fine Books & Collections, Feb. 28, 2024
"He Rescued 1.5 Million Yiddish Books. Now He Will Have Time to Read Some" - by Joseph Berger, New York Times, Feb. 27, 2024
"Hope for Suicide Prevention" - by Ellen Barry, New York Times, Feb. 21, 2024
"Yale Apologizes for Its Connections to Slavery" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, Feb. 16, 2024
"The 16 best movies ever made in Pittsburgh" - by Michael Machosky, NEXTpittsburgh, Feb. 15, 2024
"The Home of Carter G. Woodson, the Man Behind Black History Month" - by Anna Kodé, New York Times, Feb. 1, 2024
"A Stunningly Well-Preserved 600-Year-Old Gauntlet Is Found in Switzerland" - by Victor Mather, New York Times, Jan. 31, 2024
"George Carlin’s Estate Sues Podcasters Over A.I. Episode" - by Christopher Kuo, New York Times, Jan. 26, 2024
"Richard Prince to Pay Photographers Who Sued Over Copyright" - by Matt Stevens, New York Times, Jan. 26, 2024
"Leading Museums Remove Native Displays Amid New Federal Rules" - by Julia Jacobs and Zachary Small, New York Times, Jan. 26, 2024
"A Lincoln Trove Lands at the Library (Pie Safe Included)" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, Jan. 24, 2024
"A New Project Uses Isotopes to Pinpoint the Birthplaces of the Enslaved" - by Maddie Bender and Teddy Brokaw, Smithsonian Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2024

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