A look at Brooklyn, then and now. The Republican Party ruled Brooklyn for most of the latter part of the 19th century, and their clubs, like the Union League and Lincoln Clubs, were large, ...

The Founding Father became a genuine architectural thinker during his time in France, and upon returning to his Virginia home ...

The copyright law of 1870 required two copies of all copyrighted material to be sent to the Library of Congress. This resulted in a flood of books, pictures, maps, prints and photographs, which forced ...

The Library of Congress will open the floor of its Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building to the public starting next week. The Main Reading Room will be open to visitors starting from ...

I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jefferson’s home with my American-born history-buff ...