The recently digitized records of the AFL in the Library's Manuscript Division reveals the complexities of the organization as it struggled with race and ethnicity, often in deeply problematic ways.
Exploration into the unknown -- when much of the world's surface was not accurately mapped -- is the theme of this month's edition of the Library’s Free to Use and Reuse sets of copyright-free material.
The Library of Congress houses a multitude of papers, blueprints, recordings, drawings, images and artifacts that document the dazzling era of American invention, from the 1850s to the 1910s.