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From monumental mishaps (literally) to unusual voting laws, our nation’s capital has a strange history. Here are some ...
The Library of Congress on Wednesday pointed to an unspecified "coding error" that led to key parts of the U.S. Constitution being deleted from the Constitution Annotated website. Why it matters: The ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not really about the books. It’s a power struggle with potentially vast consequences. The Library of Congress not only stores the world’s largest collection of books ...
The library has six buildings in Washington that hold a print and online collection of nearly 26 million books, as well as more than 136 million other items, including manuscripts, maps, sheet ...
The Library of Congress, with its stately buildings across from the U.S. Capitol, holds a vast collection of the nation's books and history, which it makes available to the public and lawmakers.
A bug in the Library of Congress annotated Constitution site briefly erased sections including Americans' right to challenge detention.
While you can no longer read the 1802 act that established the structure of the Library of Congress, the document can be accessed on the U.S. Capitol visitors site.
Sondheim, who died at 91 in 2021, left the library more than 5,000 items from his long career as a musical theater composer and lyricist, including sketches, scrapbooks and more from shows like ...
About 214 years later, in February 2016, Dr. Hayden made history when President Obama nominated her as the 14th Librarian of Congress. On July 12, 2016, the Republican Senate confirmed Hayden by a ...
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 ...
The Library of Congress, with its stately buildings across from the U.S. Capitol, holds a vast collection of the nation’s books and history, which it makes available to the public and lawmakers.