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A conversation with eminent writer Ernest Hemingway, as portrayed by Rusty Sneary....

On the blog: Re...

Historian Jeff Broadwater argues that no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth pr...

How could a president have won a war and lost a re-election? For George H.W. Bush, being Commander-in-Chief during Desert Storm was not enough....

In pursuing the Civil War, did Abraham Lincoln play fast and loose with civil liberties? Pulitzer Prize winner Mark E. Neely, Jr.,...

Author Zachary Karabell examines Chester Alan Arthur, who was propelled into the presidency by the assassination of James Garfield an...

No president since the founders has done more to shape American government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Alan Brinkley argues th...

Taking the White House requires a team, and America had never seen anything like the husband-and-wife team of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Historian...

Flamboyant, confident, and controversial, Edith Bolling Wilson was not your traditional First Lady. After her husband, Woodrow Wilson, suffered a debi...

The latest installment of the Library’s Emmy Award-winning series, Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III, spotlights one of t...