Cambridge's Public Library features a room dedicated to local history. And in the special collections, you'll find interviews with Cantabrigians past and present about living in the neighborhood.

CAMBRIDGE -- A special project at the Cambridge Public Library highlights the Cambridge Black community for Black History Month. It is putting a focus on important Black figures from Cambridge.

The History Cambridge organization has been based since 1957 in, appropriately, the second-oldest building in the city: the ...

Since its 1630 founding to the intricate details of the city today, Jane Merrill’s most recent publication leaves no stone unturned when chronicling Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Harvard ...

In the reading room of the Cambridge Public Library, two murals face one another. The first is a triptych nestled within a curved, dome-like ceiling depicting ancient milestones in the art of printing ...

When the Carnegie Library opened in Cambridge emphasis was placed on religious and moral content. They initially purchased 1,334 volumes at $1,300 with more books being donated by local families.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The home library that novelist Claire Messud was about to show me, she joked, was sort of a “Potemkin village.” She and her husband, New Yorker critic James Wood, were mid ...

In 2000/01, Cambridge University Library was receiving about 1,600 printed books a week (85,000 per year) and about 1,800 serial parts (newspapers and so on). Even with 17 floors, a growth rate of ...

A Grade II listed former library has been put back on the market. The 19th Century Mill Road Library in Cambridge was sold last year. The buyer intended to use it as a charity headquarters, but ...