For lovers of rare books and manuscripts, the Library of Congress is an enchanting place to spend the day. I have just returned from a trip there organized by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, ...

Staffers at the Library of Congress have been looking for 250 books that belonged to Thomas Jefferson. He gave these books and several thousand more to start the library more than 200 years ago. For ...

Two hundred years after the U.S. Congress purchased a huge collection of books belonging to former President Thomas Jefferson, it remains one of America’s greatest literary treasures and has become ...

The Jefferson Library will be seeing some changes in 2016. On the staff level that includes the retirement of Library Director Valerie Hauser. Katherine Pitman will be taking the position as of Jan.

2008-11-27T12:36:02-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ff7/280865-m.jpgMark Dimunation led a tour of Thomas Jefferson’s library at the Library of Congress ...

The Library of Congress has managed to re-create —with the help of rare-book collectors —-the missing two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson's Library. Mark Dimunation, of the Library of Congress, discusses ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. I was sitting at a table in the reading room of the rare book division of ...

The Jefferson Parish Library won't reshelve or remove 12 books that feature discussions of sexuality and gender and were the subject of a coordinated barrage of complaints. In letters sent on April 18 ...