1896: William Jennings Bryan stepped onto the podium at the Democratic National Convention inside the Chicago Coliseum at ...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced Carla Hayden will join the humanities grantmaker as a senior fellow.

Though the art and architecture of the fair were mostly destroyed, as was intended, its curious cultural legacy was not.

Cleveland sent the National Guard to Chicago in 1894, against the wishes of the governor, to stop the striking Pullman workers. (Charles Milton Bell/Library of Congress) ...

Before her confirmation in 2016, Hayden spent more than two decades as CEO of Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library system and was president of the American Library Association from 2003 to 2004. A ...

The library’s interim leadership is a point of dispute. Trump appointed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented the president during his 2024 criminal trial, as acting librarian. But ...

The email to Hayden abruptly ended her eight-year-plus tenure as the first woman and African American to oversee the Library of Congress, the main research library of the legislative branch. She ran ...

"We're all kind of guessing about it because we've not gotten a real clear explanation," said AEI's Kevin Kosar.

Manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks from Stephen Sondheim have been donated to the Library of Congress, offering the public a chance to see ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks from Stephen Sondheim have been donated to the Library of Congress, offering the public a chance to see ...

The musical theater titan left behind material from beloved shows like “Sweeney Todd” and “Sunday in the Park With George.” ...