Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The main reading room is seen at the Library of Congress on June 13, 2025, in Washington. Kevin Carter/Getty Images Carla Hayden, ...

Video game developers can win up to $20,000 as part of a new video game contest from the Library of Congress meant to inspire civics-related games. Calling all video game developers — the Library of ...

On this day in history, April 24, 1800, President John Adams — the second president of the United States — approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for ...

Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not really about the books. President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of top officials at the Library of Congress and equally sudden attempt to appoint a slate of loyalists as ...

Meet the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and FSU alumna whose work is one of the Library of Congress' top acquisitions of ...

Two Justice Department officials were denied access to the Library of Congress on Monday, causing a brief standoff on Capitol Hill. The two officials—Paul Perkins, an associate deputy attorney general ...

With archives hosting about 180 million works, the world’s largest library is drawing interest from AI startups looking to train their large language models on content that won’t get them sued. Black ...

It never occurred to Anaïs Mitchell, the Tony-winning composer of “Hadestown,” that the little show she birthed in Vermont 17 years ago would make it to Broadway, let alone into the annals of the ...

This extensive essay explores the relationship of the Library of Congress with the Smithsonian Institution. The Library developed relationships with other national libraries over the years, but none ...

The past week has been witness to the rarest of rare Trump-era occurrences: Congress has been standing up for itself a little. It hasn’t happened over any of the numerous brazen abuses of the ...