- Houghton Library's digitization efforts for the 2020–2021 academic year will be focused on a new online collection, "Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library." Digital Collections Program Manager Dorothy Berry will lead the project.
- Rebecca Rego Barry notes a Renaissance-era reliquary pendant made to look like a tiny book, currently offered by Les Enluminures.
- Over on the N-YHS blog, "Clues to the Past: The Taylor-Robert Plan."
- Nate Pedersen talks to Tamar Evangelistia-Dougherty for the FB&C "Bright Young Librarians" series.
- The prayerbook which belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots sold for £311,250.
- Elizabeth Winkler writes for the New Yorker "How Phillis Wheatley Was Recovered Through History."
- Cornell University Press received an NEH grant to upgrade and enhance its open-access monograph program, in collaboration with Cornell's libraries.
- UVA Press has a 40%-off sale through 1 September.
- The Spencer Museum of Art has mounted a virtual version of their exhibition "Audubon in the Anthropocene."
- Richard S. Newman talks to History New Network about his biography of Richard Allen, Freedom's Prophet.
- Annette Gordon-Reed has been named a University Professor, Harvard's highest faculty honor.
- Mark Royden has been sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to steal a copy of Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral in October 2018.
- From Lapham's Quarterly, "How Books Became Cheap."
Upcoming Auctions
- Books and Manuscripts: A Summer Miscellany at Sotheby's ends on 4 August.
- William R. Bronson Collection of Ornithological Books at Heritage Auctions on 6 August.
- Americana – Travel & Exploration – World History – Cartography at PBA Galleries on 6 August.
