One of Dolly Parton 's greatest passions was instilling a love of reading and storytelling in young minds, and in light of her culture-shaking death on Tuesday (Aug. 25), her work in the literary ...

The library honored Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which has donated more than 300 million books to U.S. children under ...

To save on space, the Library of Congress is packing what would otherwise be pages and pages worth of documents and other media from U.S. history into a single vial for the nation’s time capsule ...

Such priceless artifacts as James Madison’s crystal flute, a 4,000-year-old inscribed cuneiform tablet and a copy of the Gettysburg Address in Abraham Lincoln’s own handwriting are so extraordinary ...

The icon and literacy advocate died at the age of 80.

EXCLUSIVE: The richest prize in documentary film is down to a half dozen finalists. On Monday, the Library of Congress, The ...

The surprise firing of the head of the Library of Congress and efforts to install Trump loyalists at the iconic institution have stirred bipartisan pushback on Capitol Hill. By Maya C. Miller and Carl ...

President Donald Trump fired Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, via email at 6:56 p.m. ET on May 8, 2025. Critics are condemning his decision, which came after Hayden's appearance earlier this week ...

The Library of Congress, a 225-year-old Washington institution, has never had a moment like this. A week ago, the Trump administration fired the longtime librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. The man ...

A new Library of Congress collection features the full Stony Brook WTC Health and Wellness Program oral history project that ...

House lawmakers passed a bill Monday aimed at preventing future executive branch interference in some legislative branch agencies, a year after President Donald Trump fired the librarian of Congress.