When Flickr launched The Commons on January 16, 2008, they created a new opportunity for all of us to enjoy historical photographs in a more networked way. The Library of Congress has a vast collection of historical photographs, pictures guaranteed to lift your spirits, spark your curiosity, and oth...

Library of Congress Magazine (LCM) is published bimonthly to tell the Library’s stories, to showcase its many talented staff, and to share and promote the use of the resources of the world’s largest library.

Flickr Commons: Happy 5th Birthday!. A blog post at "Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos" on 2013-01-16.

In a speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington, Reverand Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. invoked the promises made in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address, calling on the nation to deliver on…

Forever Free. A blog post at "Library of Congress Blog" on 2013-01-11.

“The Civil War in America,” a Library of Congress exhibition to commemorate the war’s 150th anniversary, displays more than 200 letters, diaries, documents and images.

The Library of Congress occupies three massive and ornate buildings in the center of Washington, D.C. But those edifices house just part of the collection, which spans hundreds of miles of shelves across many less-interesting buildings, and extends to media beyond books. To find the heart of the nat...

The Library of Congress has just procured 10,000 hours of sports interviews featuring some of America's greatest sports heroes. As Bob Orr reports, their insights go well beyond statistics and championships.

Richard M. Nixon (1913–1994) During a 1970 vacation in San Clemente, California, President Richard Nixon finished work on the budget and then took a helicopter to Bob Hope’s Toluca Lake estate for a round of golf and to thank Hope for signing up servicemen in Vietnam for educational benefits. Four y...

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) Although it was published in 1937 it was not until the 1970s that Their Eyes Were Watching God became regarded as a masterwork. It had initially been rejected by African American critics as facile and simplistic, in part because its characters ...

Louis Braille: His Legacy and Influence For thousands of years, the ability of blind people to participate fully in social, political, and cultural life was limited by the lack of access to written or printed forms of information. Although the work of many others contributed to his accomplishment, L...

Are there statues in your community created to honor those who have made a difference? Have buildings in your town been named or renamed for important people in history? Martin Luther King, Jr. is one such person. Ask your students to analyze a mural documenting the life of Dr. King, as seen in a ph...

Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation On July 13, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln consulted secretaries William H. Seward and Gideon Welles on the particulars of the Emancipation Proclamation. Both men were speechless. Seward anticipated anarchy in the South and perhaps foreign intervention in the ...