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Posted by: John Sayers
The Library of Congress has joined with other federal agencies to begin the celebration of the United States Semiquincentennial and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
Posted in: American Revolution, History, Rare Book and Special Collections
Posted by: John Sayers
A remembrance of a visit by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom to the Library of Congress in 1991.
Posted in: History, News, Photos, Washington DC, Women's History
Posted by: John Sayers
A volunteer at the first Library of Congress National Book Festival on Sept. 8, 2001, remembers the event, held just three days prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Posted in: History, National Book Festival
Posted by: John Sayers
Upon news of his death, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II, is remembered for a 1951 visit to the Library of Congress.
Posted in: History, Today in History, Washington DC
Posted by: John Sayers
This post is reprinted from the November–December issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. The entire issue is available on the Library’s website. John Cole has enjoyed a remarkable 51-year career at the Library, culminating with his most recent appointment as the first official Library of Congress historian. Throughout his long tenure at the …
Posted by: John Sayers
(The following was written for the March/April 2017 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, LCM. You can read editions of past issues here.) With the most comprehensive World War I collections in the nation, we are uniquely equipped to tell the story of America’s involvement in the Great War through our website. Today we launched a …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Education, History, LC Web site, LCM
Posted by: John Sayers
(The following post was written by Peter Armenti, literature specialist in the Library’s Digital Reference Section and a regular contributor to the poetry and literature blog, “From the Catbird Seat.”) For nearly 20 years, the Today in History feature has been one of the most popular areas of the Library of Congress website. Drawing heavily …
Posted in: Education, History, LC Web site, Today in History
Posted by: John Sayers
We continue our Throwback Thursday #TBT celebration of Chronicling America, our free, online searchable database of historical U.S. newspapers, with interesting stories from the archives as selected by reference librarians in our Serials & Government Publications Division. Today we return to our historical newspaper archives to veer off from the normal journalistic endeavors and examine …
Posted in: History, Newspapers
Posted by: John Sayers
In celebration of the release of the 10 millionth page of Chronicling America, our free, online searchable database of historical U.S. newspapers, the reference librarians in our Serials & Government Publications Division have selected some interesting subjects and articles from the archives. We’ve been sharing them in a series of Throwback Thursday #TBT blog posts. …
Posted in: Civil War, Collections, History, LC Web site, Newspapers