Brief history: William Abbott Witman Sr., a politician and businessman, began building the Pagoda in 1906 to hide the unpleasant appearance of his stone quarry. The Pagoda was completed in 1908 and ...

Every day, every fire, they are faced with a challenge of preserving pieces of the city. Reading firefighters risk their lives to save yours and now the history of the department is captured in a book ...

Did you know: The land Reading was founded on was granted to William Penn by King Charles II of England. The town was founded by Penn’s sons, Thomas and Richard. Reading is named for William Penn’s ...

How do you teach children to read? This question is at the heart of a decades-long battle. When we read our eyes skim the print, we notice the length of the word and maybe the first letter, then our ...

The Johns Hopkins University's Sheridan Libraries, in partnership with University College London's Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) and the Princeton University Library, have been awarded a ...

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil” (1785) Oil on panel; 83.2 x 64.8 cm (32 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.) Johannes Vermeer had a serious thing for books. As it turns out, so did Edward ...

Amid the seemingly endless debates today about the future of reading, there remains one salient, yet often overlooked fact: Reading isn’t only a matter of our brains; it’s something that we do with ...

Historians know that those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it. When it comes to books, we are doomed to repeat it anyway, at least according to Corey Pressman, founder of Exprima ...

Book bans, chatbots, pedagogical warfare: What it means to read has become a minefield. Credit...Rodrigo Corral Supported by By A.O. Scott Everyone loves reading. In principle, anyway. Nobody is ...