Current Exhibitions
Baseball Americana
Explores baseball’s roots, its changing traditions, and the game today through a collection of items that cannot be found anywhere else.
Art in Action: Herblock and Fellow Artists Respond to Their Times
Thematically pairs Herblock’s political cartoons with artists’ prints, drawings, and posters. These juxtapositions underscore how various artists across time and place can be kindred spirits in expressing concerns about the world they inhabit.
Mapping a Growing Nation: From Independence to Statehood
Abel Buell’s New and Correct Map of the United States of North America is the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American. This important early American map is known to exist in only seven copies. Philanthropist David M. Rubenstein has generously placed his copy of the map at the Library.
Hope for America: Performers, Politics and Pop Culture
Explores artifacts that represent an array of viewpoints on the interplay of politics and entertainment in American public life.
Herblock Gallery
Celebrates the work of editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block—better known as "Herblock"—with an ongoing display of ten original drawings, to change every six months, drawn from the Library's extensive Herbert L. Block Collection.
Explore Past Exhibitions
From the Home Front and the Front Lines
Consists of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections at the Library of Congress.
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