Anthony Comstock would stop at nothing to rid the world of explicit photos, birth control, and anything else he deemed a ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom looked straight into the camera and offered a stark moment for his Democratic Party. The ...

The House will rename several rooms inside the House press gallery at the U.S. Capitol to honor abolitionist Frederick Douglass after a resolution was passed by voice vote on Monday.

This is the second part of a series in which we examine history from a different angle. The business card has been in its ...

Thus, the librarian of Congress has considerable sway over copyright policy in the United States. In the Founding Era, the protection of copyrights (and patents) formed a key part of American ...

Rebecca Brenner Graham is author of Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany (Kensington, January 2025) and a postdoctoral research associate at ...

Dr. Carla D. Hayden was the first African American and the first woman to serve as the head of the Library of Congress. Her firing drew a furious response from Democrats. By Tim Balk The Trump ...

On May 9, American Library Association (ALA) President Cindy Hohl released a statement condemning President Trump’s May 8 firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who had been in the role since ...

this bill would be the largest successful attack by Congress on U.S. lands and waters in modern American history. It would give the oil industry free reign over more than 293 million acres of ...

WASHINGTON -- The wingtip of an American Eagle plane hit another American Eagle plane carrying several U.S. Congress members Thursday afternoon at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...

And Congress has taken up the fight to ensure that they do. This week, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, commonly known as the SAVE Act, will be considered on the House floor after ...