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Meet the Past features Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviewing prominent historical figures (as portrayed by a...

Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...

The latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families features...

There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers per...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the amiable, comp...

The Library continues its movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the lighthearted documentary The Sear...

In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...

The latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia and their friends and families featur...