Most travelers come to Washington D.C. with grand monuments in mind. Visions of white domes, towering obelisks, and years of history remembered in carved stone. Tucked just behind the Capitol, past th ...

On this day in history, April 24, 1800, President John Adams — the second president of the United States — approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Library of Congress is celebrating its 218th anniversary on Tuesday ...

The new exhibition, which shows how the document was edited, also features an early copy of the Gettysburg Address ...

Influential Women, a media platform dedicated to highlighting the work of women leaders, has secured formal registration for ...

THE legislative history of the Library of Congress, although not a brief, is a meagre one. It was established in the year that witnessed the removal of the capital to Washington ; but from 1802, when ...

In 2010, Twitter bestowed its entire archive of public tweets on the Library of Congress, which the library called “an exciting and groundbreaking acquisition.” The collection began on March 21, 2006, ...

WASHINGTON — UNC Pembroke senior Anastasia Sinclair spent her summer inside the world’s largest library, helping researchers ...

Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was that the world’s largest library was, as its name states, a legislative ...

Richard Templeton is a frequent user of the Library of Congress. He lives in Maryland. The Library of Congress is our national library, yet its name does not embody that fact. It is our oldest ...

A rare draft of the Declaration of Independence, now on display at the Library of Congress, was written by Thomas Jefferson and contains edits from fellow Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin and John ...