The president and his supporters, and a few academics, also argue that in 1866 there was no such category as an “undocumented ...

California’s court fight to reign in the president's use of troops in Los Angeles now hangs on a 19th century law with grim ...

In a time of tense partisan clashes, Capitol Hill has a trusted leader in Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Campbell’s focus is far from skirmishes but rather ...

The French engineer Gustave Eiffel’s plan sketch was found to have been changed to help the statue withstand weather like ...

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 ongoing ...

Catholic churches are celebrating the national holiday of Juneteenth this week by honoring the freedom won by formerly ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

Hundreds of thousands of white men gave their lives to end slavery in this country, and hundreds of thousands more were wounded." "I think this is terrible for Democrats," Bevan added.

At the moment, the Library of Congress has not received any direction from Congress on how to move forward. The constitutional crisis — one of many across the federal government — remains ongoing.

What does it mean to study slavery? To study something means to make arguments based on evidence. But what counts as evidence, and who has the authority to make those determinations?

The Library of Congress email systems suffered a substantial hack earlier this year by a "foreign adversary," Fox News can confirm. It is unclear if the hack compromised accounts of those who work ...

The Library of Congress has catalogued 3,049 recordings up to the year 2000 alone. One writer has estimated that it is performed 10 million times around the world every year.