It got going big-time in 1815, when former President Thomas Jefferson sold his 6,500-volume library to Congress to replace the one that was destroyed when the British burned the Capitol on Aug. 24 ...

The Trump White House has a new target in its campaign to expand executive power: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name — administration lawyers are now arguing that the main research ...

In the summer of 1848, after Alexander Hamilton’s 90-year-old widow, Eliza, had been campaigning for more than a decade to have the Library of Congress acquire her husband’s papers, her goal ...

On May 31, at Martin Luther King Jr. Library in Washington, D.C., a town hall meeting was held "to defend creative expression, access to all books, and the freedom to learn." ...

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said she does not feel her termination was personal and that she is concerned there is not much awareness from the White House on what the library ...

As TPM has reported, Democrats in the House have already taken some action to raise the alarm after President Trump abruptly fired the Librarian of Congress and then, days later, the head of the U ...

Dr. Carla Hayden, a trailblazing librarian of Congress, was fired by President Trump in May. Geoff Bennett recently spoke with her about being blindsided by the decision, the administration’s ...

Sondheim, who died at 91 in 2021, left the library more than 5,000 items from his long career as a musical theater composer and lyricist, including sketches, scrapbooks and more from shows like ...

Indeed, because the Library exercises such executive powers, the Librarian of Congress has to be an executive officer rather than a legislative one. See, e.g., Buckley v.