Several times this week, I’ve had occasion to pull down a volume of The World Book Encyclopedia from the set that lived on a bookshelf at my parents’ house and now lives with me. Unfortunately, in my ...

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 ...

Last month, we discussed Wikipedia, and how the online encyclopedia, coupled with encyclopedias on compact discs, cut into the business of printed encyclopedia sets that were found in many American ...

The big picture: The information superhighway sounds like the ideal place to learn about virtually anything and for the last few decades, that's been an accurate assessment. In recent years, however, ...

The American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville began in 1959 a yearslong effort to compile the first encyclopedia ...