Hidden Treasures at the Library of Congress

Thomas Jefferson received this first edition of The Federalist in book form while he was in Paris serving as minister to... Read more

The future "Genius of Escape Who Will Startle and Amaze" ran away from home when he was 12 years old. A postcard from "Y... Read more

his hand-drawn map was delivered to Generals John Cadwalader and George Washington on the eve of a surprise attack by th... Read more

Jedediah Hotchkiss served as the official map maker and topographical engineer of the Valley District, Department of Vir... Read more

During the Civil War, everyday items like paper became luxury goods. And, like several other Southern newspapers, the Vi... Read more

The first bronze casting of the life mask of Abraham Lincoln was made in Chicago by Leonard Wells Volk in the spring of ... Read more

Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen were oceanographers, cartographers and geologists at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Science Obser... Read more

On January 5, 1502, prior to his fourth and final voyage to America, Columbus gathered several judges and notaries in hi... Read more

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney administered the oath of office to Abraham Lincoln using the Bible of a court clerk. With t... Read more

Suffrage leader Lucy Burns (1879-1966) was imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia, in November 1917, after she... Read more