It contains the world’s largest collection of law books and other resources from all countries and provides online databases and guides...

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington first appointed Kooser to the laureateship in 2004 and hailed him as “a major poetic voice for...

Emerson and Walls read at the Library on Feb. 24, 2005. Emerson’s poems have appeared in the literary journals Poetry, The Southern...

which will explore the Madisonian principles of separation of powers and checks and balances and their relevance in American government...

“Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature” will open at the Library of Congress on Thursday,...

While at the Library, Kupchan will research how nations become lasting friends and sustain this over time. He will focus on a number of...

Included are oral histories from individuals who accompanied Henry Kissinger on his historic trip to Beijing in 1971. The collection also...

In 2005-2006, the 11-city “Song of America” tour celebrated the history of creativity in America by highlighting the Library’s...

Circa 1925 Soviet period board titled “We Will Conquer…,” designed to raise awareness of public health issues surrounding tuberculosis...

Sept. 29 Saturday NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL The 2007 National Book Festival features 70 award-winning authors, illustrators and poets, who...

23, in the Montpelier Room, located on the sixth floor of the Library’s James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington,...

Maps are a visual record of human endeavor, each with a tale to tell. In their various forms, maps are models of time, diaries of...

The film presents the story of an ancient and unique Jewish community with its own religious traditions that was transformed by modern...

The unique reorganization of these plays is a product of James’ own scholarship in order to better understand the bloodlines of...

He guided NLS through the transition from phonographs and discs to a cassette-based system in the 1970s. He has overseen growth of the...

Like the Jay I. Kislak Collection itself, the exhibition provides a glimpse into the complex and fascinating past of the Americas, as...

Book of Secrets” which offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Thomas Jefferson Building and visits with the Library’s experts. where...

HABS is thriving today in a tri-lateral partnership comprised of the Library of Congress, the National Park Service and the...

The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution, is the world’s preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing...