On April 24, 1800, President John Adams founded the Library of Congress. Today it holds over 170 million items and remains ...

President John Adams signed legislation to create the Library of Congress on April 24, 1800.

EveryLibrary is urging Congress to reject any proposal that would cut funding for IMLS or weaken the nation’s library infrastructure. The organization is also calling on the public to take action and ...

Concerts from the Library of Congress will launch an exciting, yearlong America 250 celebration this January, presenting a broad panorama of the nation's music in concerts and conversations, lectures, ...

It was too good to throw away. That instinct just recovered one of the rarest films in cinema history.

The Library of Congress is home to the Veterans History Project, which is actively looking for veterans' stories.

With contributions from the Library of Congress’s National Ambassadors for Young People’s Literature and input from children’s book specialists, LoC writer and editor Hannah Freece created Tell Me a ...

Within a century of the Gutenberg Bible, print technology had fundamentally transformed the production, circulation and ...

Arguing over the greatest movies about Los Angeles is a fun party sport that some people take way too seriously – like those hardcores who get all worked up about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie ...

U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze has been appointed to a second one-year term by the Library of Congress, where he has served ...