The Washington Post brings us an interesting story about a portait that was donated to the Library of Congress. As far as portraits from the Civil War go, this one is quite famous. It shows a ...

Georgia O’Keeffe Reveals Inspiration Behind Some of Her Most Famous Paintings in Newly Uncovered Letters ...

At the Library of Congress, the exhibition 'Not an Ostrich: And Other Images From America's Library' spotlights its photo holdings.

Migrant Fathers: Tender Portraits of Dust Bowl Dads Revisiting the Library of Congress in search of a counterpart to Dorothea Lange's famous 'Migrant Mother.' ...

The new exhibition features the likes of Billie Holiday and other jazz greats, from the 1920s to today. Photos, papers, video and scores are on display and will travel to Los Angeles later this year.

The Library of Congress is not a community lending library. By law, it stocks pretty much every copyrighted book published in the United States. And it doesn’t allow children to access its holdings.

The Presidential Portrait That Was the ‘Ugliest Thing’ L.B.J. Ever Saw Lyndon Johnson’s cantankerous nature carried over to even the more engaging parts of being Commander in Chief ...

The Minecraft theme was added to the US Library of Congress list of Nationally Significant Recordings. The theme was recognized alongside iconic songs, and the Windows 95 start-up sound.

On Tuesday the Library of Congress announced that it had conserved and digitized a previously unknown portrait of the famed abolitionist and “conductor” of the Underground Railroad as part of ...

With archives hosting about 180 million works, the world’s largest library is drawing interest from AI startups looking to train their large language models on content that won’t get them sued.

This iconic hall houses paintings, frescoes and sculptures depicting famous scenes from American history, not to mention an iconic cast-iron dome added to the structure in 1868.