Americans are awash in information. Most of us walk around with devices that give us instant access to all the knowledge in human history. But before you could Google it, and long before we met Alexa, ...

Yet with the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part of the Western intellectual tradition is disappearing as well. I am not speaking of the idea of impartial, objective, and meticulously ...

Following are samples of the 50,000+ entries, photos, diagrams and charts in this tech reference, written by Alan Freedman, one of the first computer programmers in America (more about the author at ...

In an age before Google, parents pinned hopes for their children’s future onto promises made on their doorsteps by encyclopedia salesmen. Denis Boyles, the author of a history of the Encyclopaedia ...

These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to pollute the Internet with misinformation and noise. At a time when it’s hard to know what information to trust, I felt ...

Only 800 printed sets of the multi-volume Encyclopedia Britannica are stacked in the company’s Kentucky warehouse, the company says, and when the last one sells, there’ll be no more. It could be just ...

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLEVELAND HISTORY is a collaborated effort between CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, and the northeastern Ohio community. Originating in the ...

Encyclopedia Britannica is closing the book on its print edition. The move may be the single most powerful symbol to date of our rapidly changing media world, a world in which hard copies of books ...

Texas is known for southern hospitality, cowboy culture, and its "don't tread on me" attitude. For more than a decade, the Lone Star State has also been rumored to be home to a ban on the Encyclopedia ...

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLEVELAND HISTORY is a collaborative effort between CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY, THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY and the northeastern Ohio community. Originating in the ...