Renowned American historian Robert Darnton (86) expressed concern that U.S. President Donald Trump might declare a national emergency to block midterm elections aimed at reshaping congressional power.

In this NBCC finalist, cultural historian Darnton examines subversive French works of the 1780s, arguing that these underground books were as influential as more classic Enlightenment fare. (Apr.) ...

Robert Darnton, currently the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European History at Princeton University, will become Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the Harvard University ...

Early this summer, Robert Choate Darnton, Harvard’s Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, will pack up his book-lined office on the second floor of Wadsworth House. As of ...

Scholar and Harvard University librarian Robert Darnton vowed that the Digital Public Library of America, a nonprofit, nationwide effort to digitize and offer access to millions of free, digitized ...

Robert Darnton, Harvard professor and the university’s librarian, has a short piece in The Chronicle Review that sets out to explode, as the title puts it, “5 Myths of the ‘Information Age.’” It’s an ...

In an 18th-century Parisian printing shop, apprentices rounded up neighborhood cats and hanged them after a mock trial. The ...

Robert Darnton, who is justly renowned as a scholar, is, in a mild sense, a pornographer himself: In the appendix to "The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France" (1996), he translated ...

When Robert Darnton plucks a 200-year-old book off the shelf in his office, he is not reverential. He does not put on gloves. He does not hold the book gingerly. He picks it up and flips through the ...