The Library of Congress: From Jefferson's Vision to the Digital Age

The Library of Congress: From Jefferson's Vision to the Digital AgeThe Library of Congress is the research arm of Congress, home of the US Copyright Office, and a public forum for artistic and literary culture. It is generally considered the national library of the United States, and it has influenced cultural affairs worldwide in myriad ways since its founding more than two centuries ago. In The Library of Congress, Jane Aikin draws on a wealth of primary and secondary sources to weave a narrative of the

Syria and the Middle East

the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well

the National Woman's Party

and then into exile as he travels Italy and discovers the extraordinary color and variety of the countryside

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arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews

By the mid-1980s

tracking down newspaper transcripts

they understand each other the way no one else does

Carli Lloyd

Ethel Payne shined a light on the darkest moments in history

When George Washington became the first president of the United States