The rare document will be on view for just three days at the New York Public Library next year in celebration of America's ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A Friends of Virginia Beach Public Library board member found a book of court cases going back to 1730 that was compiled by Thomas Jefferson himself. Bob Gilson came upon ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Bob Gilson looks forward to Friday mornings when he and a group of volunteers sort through boxes of donated books at the Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library in Virginia ...

On Jan. 30, 1815, President James Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating $23,950 to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s library of 6,487 volumes. After capturing Washington, D.C. in 1814, the ...

Bob Gilson looks forward to Friday mornings when he and a group of volunteers sort through boxes of donated books at the Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library in Virginia Beach. Occasionally, Gilson and ...

Three days before the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson purchased a thermometer from a local Philadelphia merchant while he was in town for the signing. He also ...

It was a typical Friday for Bob Gilson: elbow-deep in donation boxes for the Virginia Beach Public Library, hands coated in a layer of dust from some of the older giveaways. On one particular Friday, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WRIC) — A rare Thomas Jefferson book was found in Virginia Beach. The book was found by a man who works with the Virginia Beach Public Library. It is nearly two hundred years old ...

Bob Gilson looks forward to Friday mornings when he and a group of volunteers sort through boxes of donated books at the Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library in Virginia Beach. Occasionally, Gilson and ...

The book is worth almost $10,000, a board member told news outlets. Screengrab from Hathitrust.org's public domain copy of the book It was a typical Friday for Bob Gilson: elbow-deep in donation boxes ...