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. It was originally housed in the ...

A routine archival submission turned into a major film discovery after the Library of Congress uncovered a long-lost silent ...

Concerts from the Library of Congress will launch an exciting, yearlong America 250 celebration this January, presenting a broad panorama of the nation's music in concerts and conversations, lectures, ...

The Library of Congress is home to the Veterans History Project, which is actively looking for veterans' stories.

The Library of Congress discovered a lost 1897 film by Georges Méliès, a legendary pioneer of special effects, featuring one ...

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 ...

U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze has been appointed to a second one-year term by the Library of Congress, where he has served ...

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

Arguing over the greatest movies about Los Angeles is a fun party sport that some people take way too seriously – like those hardcores who get all worked up about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie ...