If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Brooks' emotionally-charged writing has 'moved millions of American readers,' the Acting Librarian of Congress said Leonardo ...

Hickerson helped co-wrote two additional verses of the Pete Seeger folk classic "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" By Gil Kaufman Joe Hickerson, a singer-songwriter who served as the lead archivist ...

The Library of Congress has acquired rare artifacts related to the beloved 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The treasures include 35 musical manuscripts from composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y. "Yip" ...

WASHINGTON — The significance of holding a children's story hour event at the Library of Congress is not lost on outspoken Christian actor Kirk Cameron, who has become a conservative face of the ...

Housing 162 million books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, and images distributed across 838 miles of shelving, the Library of Congress is a treasure trove of knowledge akin to a ...

WASHINGTON, DC: Many were left scratching their heads this week after major chunks of the US Constitution quietly disappeared from the Library of Congress website. It happened just months after ...

Trump fired the head of the library in May saying she put inappropriate books in the library for children. Carla Hayden, the 14th librarian of Congress, who has held the position since 2016, received ...

Photograph by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. Soon after Confederate supporter John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865—just five days after Robert E. Lee’s ...

Carla Hayden, the 14th librarian of Congress, who has held the position since 2016, received an unexpected email on May 8, 2025. “Carla, on behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform ...

Summary: President Trump's removal of the Librarian of Congress unsurprisingly provoked an immediate court challenge. Depending on the resolution of that case, there's much at stake for the ...

Dr. Carla Hayden, a trailblazing librarian of Congress, was fired by President Trump in May. Geoff Bennett recently spoke with her about being blindsided by the decision, the administration’s ongoing ...

The case is the latest example of efforts by the Trump administration to erase the traditional lines that separate the branches of government. The Trump White House has a new target in its campaign to ...