Since its inception, Hezbollah has leveraged a worldwide network of supporters—from formal operatives to informal sympathizers—to provide financial, logistical, and sometimes even...
Megan Metcalf with some of the Library’s LGBTQ collections. 2019. Photo: Shawn Miller. This is a guest post by Megan Metcalf, the...
President James Buchanan’s name was used to lend credibility to the hoax. Prints and Photographs Division. This is a guest post by...
Betty Bormer, who was freed by the military order that founded Juneteenth. Fort Worth, Texas. June 26, 1937. Photo: Works Progress Administration....
CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite reporting on the 1980 presidential election. Photo: Bernard Gotfryd. Prints and Photographs Division. The photographs of Bernard...
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden greets researcher Jay Driskell following the opening of the reading room. Photo: Shawn Miller. Reading rooms around...
Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 map used the term “America” for the first time in describing the New World. –– This piece was co-written...
You know what’s weird? Washing clothes. It’s like some kind of strange sorcery I can’t quite get a grip on. This isn’t...
Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Eric Lander as Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Lori Lander holds the...
Mark Twain, 1907. Prints and Photographs Division. Mark Dimunation, chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, wrote this piece on...