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Open the dictionary to the word “iconoclast,” and you will see a picture of Marcel Duchamp.

Robert Erskine, originally from Scotland, emerged as one of England’s most significant inventors. As the American Revolution threatened, he traveled to America to manage a struggling iron mine in Ringwood, New Jersey.

The Peale family was one of America’s most influential artistic and intellectual family dynasties in early American History.

Have you ever wondered about the origin of the crazy words and phrases we use? From “breaking the ice” to “a wild goose chase,” these seemingly illogical expressions fill our everyday language without a second thought.

This is the story of the Fab Four’s rise from obscurity to the moment when they stood on the verge of international stardom, including their changes in personnel, their first ventures into touring, their trips to Germany, their families’ rea

Travel through the country, enjoying its history and majestic beauty, via some of America’s finest landscape paintings.

Prior to the development of train, car and air travel, water travel was a crucial means of transporting goods and people, and continues to have an important role in leisure, travel and defense.

Come celebrate our country's Semiquincentennial with the library!