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

Crawford is the owner of a gambling saloon in an isolated town waiting for the train lines to arrive so she can get rich; McCambridge...

The challenge for scientists and engineers in the next couple of decades, he says, will be to design miniaturized instruments and...

The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection,” as part of the Library's American Memory collections website today. The Center for...

PBS, Penguin Group (USA), ReadAloud.org, and Scholastic Inc.; and Friends the National Endowment for the Humanities. Thanks also to...

the foundation donated Block’s archive to the Library, and the collection includes more than 14,000 finished cartoons, in addition to...

The Alan Lomax collection of field recordings of American roots music, Woody Guthrie’s original recordings and manuscripts, and...

Joseph Beimfohr enlisted in the Army two days after his 17th birthday; his grandmother, who raised him, signed his enlistment paperwork....

Clicking on a PDF link will bring you to the Government Printing Office’s PDF version of a bill. Search results within THOMAS are...

The Women’s Army Corps During WWII” in the Pickford Theater, located on the third floor of the Library’s James Madison Building. These...

Maxine Gordon, who is working on her doctorate in history at New York University, is the senior interviewer and jazz researcher at the...

The Center for the Book was established by Congress in 1977 "to use the resources and prestige of the Library of Congress to promote...

Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan and Charles Simic. The program is free and open to the public; tickets are not required. It is also available in...

Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the John W. Kluge Center, the event is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are needed....

The author of more than 30 books of poetry and prose, Merwin’s influence on American poetry is profound. Often noted by critics is his...

There they formed a non-denominational utopian society known as the “American Colony.” Later joined by Swedish immigrants, the colony...

Big Bird’s heart, however, belongs to Sesame Street so he makes a road trip to return to his true home. Ken Kwapis directed this family...

Ironically, although Conover was barely known in his own country, American jazz musicians knew and appreciated his efforts on their...

“Indian Cowboy,” by Zaraawar Mistry, focuses on pre- and post-9/11 life in America’s South Asian communities. In conjunction with the...

The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Inc. have awarded commissions...