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Christie’s Patrick McGrath on the upcoming auction of the presidential letters.
The Library of Congress says it's amassed about 170 billion tweets since it began collecting an archive of all Twitter messages in 2010.Twitter is donating its archi...
The creator of the hit animated series "Family Guy" has donated a vast trove of the late astronomer Carl Sagan's papers to the Library of Congress, officials announc...
A divided federal appeals court Friday threw out a lawsuit by the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay against his former boss at the Library of Congre...
President Barack Obama is showing singer-songwriter Carole King that she has friends at the White House.In the East Room on Wednesday night, Obama is presenting the ...
To celebrate the 85th anniversary of women's right to vote, the Library of Congress Web site has posted 448 photos of the suffrage movement, some going back 130 year...
WASHINGTON(AP) -- Officials with the Library of Congress have agreed to pay $250,000 to an employee who sued over alleged sexual harassment by the former top law lib...
A Washington businessman is loaning the first U.S. map printed in North America to the Library of Congress after buying it for $1.8 million.The library announced Mon...
A hawk that spent a week living in the dome of the Library of Congress has finally been captured.Ken Knowles of the Raptor Conservancy of Virginia says the Cooper's ...
Workers and visitors at the Library of Congress have been allowed back into its Madison Building after smoke prompted a brief evacuation.D.C. fire department spokesm...
WASHINGTON -- Documents from gay rights history are on display for the first time at the Library of Congress as part of an exhibit on the nation's constitutional his...
From "The Naked City" to "In a Lonely Place" and "Oklahoma!" the Library of Congress is adding 25 more classic American films to its national registry.There are "12 ...
The Library of Congress is using a $2 million gift to digitize cultural treasures and records from Afghanistan to give to that country's libraries and universities.T...
A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States...
Golden Gate Bridge http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/travel/1_goldengate_Libraryofcongress.jpgConstruction began on the Golden Gate Bridge on Jan 5,...
Three historians are recommending using quotes from key speeches by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to help represent the 34th president at a planned memorial in Wash...
One of five known manuscripts of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is going on display at the Library of Congress.Beginning Friday, the library will display the J...
The Library of Congress is being honored with a special Grammy Award in Washington for its work over the past decade to preserve historic audio recordings.The Record...
The Library of Congress plans to display a copy of the Gettysburg Address over a six-week period starting later this month.The John Hay copy is one of five known man...
The Library of Congress is acquiring an archive of audio recordings that contain thousands of historic sports interviews with star athletes and coaches.The library a...