1,700 5th graders will participate in Battle of the Books Friday at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Hundreds of costumed fifth graders from Howard County Public and private schools fill the floor in ...

The annual Battle of the Books is what Howard County Library System CEO and President Tonya Aikens called a “fifth grade rite of passage.” Students dress up in teams and compete to answer ...

A letter written by one of the most well-known Titanic survivors sold for about $399,000 at auction over the weekend.

Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its ...

A unique letter written by Titanic passenger Archibald Gracie from aboard the doomed ship has sold for hundreds of thousands ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - ‘America’s Battle of the Books’ was held in Santa Maria on Tuesday at the Souza Student Support Center. This was a return to familiar turf for the competition.

Elementary students from “The Aluminum Pie Comets” team, which took first place at the Santa Maria-based Battle of the Books on April 15, 2025. Elementary students from “The Wishing Books” team, which ...

As part of an Executive Order signed in mid-March, the Trump Administration ordered several governmental entities be stripped down. One of them is called the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

WASHINGTON – It was clear that the Maryland school district using LGBTQ+ characters in its elementary school reading program faced an uphill battle before ... in one of the books – the ...