Highlights include: President Abraham Lincoln's handwritten Gettysburg ... Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Original sketches of the Washington Monument and Vietnam War Memorial.

The film, discovered last summer in a basement archive, sheds light on early 20th century depictions of the Civil War and the ...

Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and ...

But American book banning started with the Puritans, 140 years before the United States Chris Klimek Every year, the Library of Congress selects 25 recordings that are "culturally, historically or ...

Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846. As a Congressman, he criticized the United States' participation in the Mexican War. Still, he worked to help Zachary Taylor, a hero of ...

After you've admired the Capitol, walk along East Capitol Street to the Library of Congress. Comprising three ... to maintain steady water levels in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pools, it ...