For Presidents Day…Why Not Read Lincoln’s Mail?
Readers can help transcribe letters written to President Abraham Lincoln in the Library’s crowdsourcing campaign.
Love Letters Straight to Your Heart
Love letters dot the Library of Congress’s collections — centuries of devotion, passion, longing, regret and heartbreak put down on paper.
Love in the Comics: The Star-Crossed Story of “Negro Romance”
The Library of Congress now has the world’s only known complete collection of “Negro Romance,” the only black romance comic printed in America’s Golden Age of Comics.
“Caged Bird” Inspired by the Library of Congress
Poet Maya Angelou’s debut memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” is her most famous work. The coming-of-age story has influenced writers and touched millions of people. Yet its title is not original to Angelou: She borrowed it from a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that he composed, at least in part, in response […]
“Ro-sa Parks! Ro-sa Parks!” Kicking off Black History Month
The Rosa Parks Papers are the subject of a major exhibit at the Library of Congress.
Library Makes an Unsplash
The Library of Congress has launched a continuing selection of rights-free images from its collections on the Unsplash stock photo website.
American Federation of Labor: History Now Digital
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.
Letters Give an Intimate Look at Classic Hollywood Era
Filmmaker Rocky Lang talks about how he recently teamed up with film historian Barbara Hall to publish “Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking,” drawn on correspondence from several collections, including from the Library of Congress.
Researching the U.S. Supreme Court at the Library of Congress
The Library’s collection of more than 35 U.S. Supreme Court justices make up the largest Supreme Court documents collection in the nation.
‘Lost Girls’ Artwork from the Holocaust
A small collection in the Library’s Manuscript Division preserves drawings created by children who survived Nazi concentration camps during World War II.