Sept. 15 (UPI) --The Library of Congress' new poet laureate, Arthur Sze, plans to spend his year in the post working to translate poetry originally written in languages other than English, the ...

Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, Hayden was the first woman and the first African American to hold the position. President Donald Trump on Thursday fired the head of the Library of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Portions of the Constitution were deleted from the Library of Congress' website after President Donald Trump ousted the longtime librarian from her role in May The omitted portions of Article I cover ...

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 ...