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~ 2023 ~
"New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, Jan. 26, 2023
"His Star Rising, Youngkin Juggles Local Issues and National Ambition" - by Trip Gabriel, New York Times, Jan. 12, 2023
"Heinz Endowments, Pittsburgh’s $2.1 billion philanthropic ship, selects Chris DeCardy as new president" - by Jeremy Reynolds, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 10, 2023
"NEH Announces $28.1 Million for 204 Humanities Projects Nationwide" - National Endowment for the Humanities, Jan. 10, 2023
"Pittsburgh’s Gentleman Scholar" - by Maxwell King, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Jan. 9, 2023
"What Do Libraries Do with All Those Books?" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Hub, Jan. 2023
~ 2022 ~

"Benedict XVI, First Modern Pope to Resign, Dies at 95" - by Ian Fisher and Rachel Donadio, New York Times, Dec. 31, 2022
"Librarians Are Meeting Younger Readers Where They Are: TikTok" - by Lora Kelley, New York Times, Dec. 30, 2022
"When does life begin?" - by Elizabeth Dias, New York Times, Dec. 29, 2022
"A Music Historian Takes a Top Job at the New York Public Library" - by Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, Dec. 29. 2022
"What helped ID the 'Boy in the Box?' His mother's family dabbles in genetic genealogy" - Philadelphia Inquirer/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Dec. 16, 2022
"In Suspending Journalists on Twitter, Musk Flexes His Media Muscle" - by Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, Dec. 16, 2022
"Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, Dec. 14, 2022
"1749 deed shows Native Americans sold Pittsburgh for tobacco, blankets, knives and gunpowder" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dec. 2, 2022
"TikTok Builds Itself Into an Ads Juggernaut" - by Kalley Huang, Isabella Simonetti and Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, Nov. 14, 2022
"Paul G. Allen’s Art at Christie’s Tops $1.5 Billion, Cracking Records" - by Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, Nov. 9, 2022
"More Money Can Mean More Museums, Just Look at Florida" - by Geraldine Fabrikant, New York Times, Oct. 22, 2022
"The Black Death is still affecting the human immune system" - by Katie Hunt, CNN - Oct. 19, 2022
"Defunded Library Raises Budget through GoFundMe Rather than Acquiesce to Book Banning" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Monthly, Oct. 2022
"The Choreography of Public Mourning" - by Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, Sept. 19, 2022
"$70 Million in Art at MoMA to Be Sold to Extend Museum’s Digital Reach" - by Kelly Crow, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 14, 2022
"Brown University Acquires the Papers of Mumia Abu-Jamal" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, Aug. 24, 2022
"‘It’s My Tradition Too’: A Town’s Centuries-Old Passion Play Evolves" - by Michael Paulson, New York Times, Aug. 24, 2022
"Darwin Notebooks and Letters Reunited in Anniversary Year" - by Anke Timmermann, Fine Books & Collections, Autumn 2022
"Europe’s Rivers, Starved by Drought, Reveal Shipwrecks, Relics and Bombs" - by Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, Aug. 23, 2022
"Museum of the Bible Returns Ancient Gospel Looted From Greek Monastery" - by Jane Arraf, New York Times, Aug. 23, 2022
"Pitt library system receives $1 million to share August Wilson archives" - by Joshua Axelrod, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 15, 2022
"Warhol’s Images of Prince: Social Commentary or Copyright Infringement?" - Adam Liptak, New York Times, Aug. 15, 2022
"Getty to Return Three Major Sculptures to Italy" - by Tom Mashberg and Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, Aug. 12, 2022
"‘What a Horrible Place This Would Have Been’ - Archaeologists found the remains of 14 soldiers who died in a pivotal Revolutionary War battle" - by Zach Zorich, New York Times, Aug. 8, 2022
"David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89" - by Daniel Lewis, New York Times, Aug. 8, 2022
"Who Gets John Adams' Library – the City of Quincy (Massachusetts) or the Boston Public Library?" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Monthly, August 2022
"The Race to Save Ukraine’s Sacred Art" - by Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, July/August, 2022
"The Role of Art in a Time of War" - by Jason Farago, New York Times, July 28, 2022
"Rare Book School Announces Rendell Endowed Lecture" - Fine Books & Collections, June 10, 2022
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