Senate appropriators Sunday unveiled a $7.3 billion fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch appropriations bill, part of a deal to end the shutdown.

For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, ...

The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not really be to blame. The 1876 painting Incendie Alexandrie by Hermann Goll ...

“Although we speak, now, to each other in new ways / we can still meet here, I think. We always have.” “The festival of eariwigs dispersed as I dragged / the blue tarp off the logs left to season now ...

Julie Ann Carroll, 64, of West Hartford, passed away at home on September 30, 2025, with her devoted wife and son by her side. Born in Norwalk, on July 28, 1961, Julie was the daughter of the late ...

It was at a leftist summer camp in the Catskills that Joe Hickerson came up with the final two verses to Pete Seeger’s popular song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” The new verses turned the song ...

At a time when its leadership is in question and its mission challenged, the Library of Congress has named a new U.S. poet laureate, the much-honored author and translator Arthur Sze. The library ...

The author and translator, a son of Chinese immigrants, aims to translate poetry from other languages during his time as a Poet Laureate Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She ...

At a time when its leadership is in question and its mission challenged, the Library of Congress has named a new U.S. poet laureate, the much-honored author and translator Arthur Sze. Speaking during ...

Sept. 15 (UPI) --The Library of Congress' new poet laureate, Arthur Sze, plans to spend his year in the post working to translate poetry originally written in languages other than English, the ...

Brooks is the author of best-selling Jewish novels “People of the Book” and “The Secret Chord,” which explores the life of King David. The Library of Congress has awarded Geraldine Brooks, a Jewish ...