Historical Highlights 116

Another week come and (almost) gone! Here are a few Historical Highlights you might like to read this weekend.

This series of interviews with Bright Young Librarians reminds me of my Archivist Interviews.

I’m a fan of Oscar Wilde’s plays The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband, but I never knew about the time he spent in Manhattan.

Signature recommends eight history books to read now (mostly biographies) and ten books to help you understand the U.S. Constitution.

Good news for fans of Abraham Lincoln: his papers are now online in full colour.

The National Library of Israel and the Russian State Library will work together to digitize important Hebrew manuscripts.

An exhibit of medieval English manuscripts is currently on view at Yale.

If you have an extra million or two kicking around, a revolutionary 1507 map is going up for auction on December 13.

Finally, here is my current NaNoWriMo word count: 10,316.

Hope you have a fun and/or productive weekend!

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