THE legislative history of the Library of Congress, although not a brief, is a meagre one. It was established in the year that witnessed the removal of the capital to Washington ; but from 1802, when ...
The Library of Congress is opening up its storehouse of 130 million items to the History Channel for documentary films, website videos and text and educational materials for classrooms throughout the ...
It was a hot and dismal day in Charlottesville, Virginia, in June 1815 as Thomas Jefferson watched the last of ten wagons carry away his entire personal library. His beloved 1744 edition of Cicero was ...