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.

U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze has been appointed to a second one-year term by the Library of Congress. Sze, a respected poet and translator, plans to travel the country with his project ...

Forty-one years ago, the Kentucky Derby Museum opened to preserve the history and amplify the cultural impact of the Kentucky Derby.

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 ...

Four Corners Voices,” an anthology of written works from the Four Corners region, will be one of Colorado’s representative ...

The pasta sauce brand is partnering with nonprofit StoryCorps on a device that records your dinner table conversations.

Nearly a year since she was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump as librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden stood before hundreds of cheering members of the literary community as she received a ...

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