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Mapping the West with Lewis and Clark draws from the collection of period maps in the Library’s Geography & Map Division and other repositories to examine the critical role that maps played in President Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a formidable republic that would no longer be eclipsed by European empires. The book contains two loose, pocketed, full-color maps that unfold to 36” x 28”.…

Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor is an illustrated collection of essays by renowned legal scholars. The Magna Carta was sealed under oath 800 years ago in 1215 and is widely known to be an important part of the historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law in England and beyond. Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor was published in conjunction with a Library…

From the pages of Look, the magazine that defined the fifties, comes a photographic portrayal of the dynamic era that sparked a transformation in America’s political and cultural identity. From the Red Scare incited by Joseph McCarthy to the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960, the 1950s heralded some of the most striking and clashing aspects of twentieth-century America: the Korean…

The Library of Congress holds a rare collection of legal documents whose contents radically changed the direction of America’s history. Christopher Columbus’s Book of Privileges is the compilation of royal charters, papal letters, writs, grants, and other documents that became, in essence, a business deal between Columbus and the rulers of Spain for the exploration and colonization of the New World. It is an…

The authors of this stunning volume have selected 500 images related to the rich history of Italian Americans from the Library’s holdings of photographs, maps, posters, letters, films, and sound recordings. The book’s informative text is supported by never-before-seen images and offers a fresh and original perspective on the experience of Italians in America, from Columbus through today. It highlights the accomplishments of well-known…

Football Nation: Four Hundred Years of America’s Game is an unprecedented look at football from its early days in colonial America to the professional and college game in the twenty-first century.This visually stunning social and cultural history contains nearly 400 images, many rare or never before published, including memorabilia, cartoons, fine art, and game photographs. The lively text examines how the game acquired its…

The Library of Congress holds the world’s greatest collection of historical photographs. Mathew Brady’s Civil War classics, the portraits of American Indians by Edward S. Curtis, and the motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge are just a few examples of the more than 700 extraordinary photographs selected from the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division for Great Photographs from the Library of Congress.This unique book contains…

In 1609, when Galileo Galilei fashioned a telescope and looked to the heavens, he was the first to see that the surface of the moon is filled with craters, mountains and other imperfections. He also saw countless stars filling every inch of the sky and noticed moons circling Jupiter—all previously unseen by any human. He published these revelations in a book called Siderius nuncius…

Among the prized collections in the Library of Congress are two enormous maps by Martin Waldseemüller, one dated 1507 and the other 1516, which both show the world in ways it had never been seen before. On the 1507 map were an ocean that hardly anyone knew and a huge island that no one—not even Columbus—had ever placed correctly. And a name for that…

Here are 100 ready-to-frame political campaign posters from the annals of American history. The candidates range from Andrew Jackson (“Defender of Beauty and Booty”) and William Henry Harrison (“Have Some Hard Cider!”) to Richard Nixon (“He’s the One!”), Barack Obama (“Hope”), and many, many more. The posters are backed with colorful historical commentary and additional artwork and bound with clean microperforated edges so they…

Gardens for a Beautiful America, 1895–1935, presents for the first time 250 colored photographs of urban and suburban gardens take by Frances Benjamin Johnston—photographer of presidents, celebrity authors, tastemakers, and estates of the country house era.At the opening of the twentieth century, Gilded Age industrialism had brought at new prosperity to life coast to coast, but at the price of once pristine forests, rivers,…

Almost overnight railway lines sprawled across the United States, quickly assuming a key role in America’s rapid growth and development. Linking these lines that crisscrossed the map were the stations themselves, the very centerpieces—physical and metaphorical—of civic and cultural life in America. They were backdrops to commonplace comings and goings as well as public lecturers and evangelists, rallies and wartime troop movement; outposts of…

While scholars are not sure what Abraham Lincoln read from when he delivered his remarks at the consecration of the Gettysburg burial ground, they do agree that Lincoln wrote at least five versions of his famous Gettysburg Address. Two of these five copies—in Lincoln’s own hand—are housed at the Library of Congress, which contains one of the largest collections of Lincolniana in the world.…

Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, each Fields of Vision volume includes an introduction to the life of a Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographer with 50 evocative images selected from their work in the Library of Congress’s collection.Carl Mydans was working as a newspaper journalist when he picked up…

Across the street from the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, stands the original building of the Library of Congress, completed in 1897. The Thomas Jefferson Building, as it was named in 1980, is a landmark both in the nation’s capital and in the nation’s architectural heritage. Through the monumental bronze entrance doors, into the Great Hall, along the resplendent corridors and galleries, and…

Featuring fifty rare historical full-color maps from the Library of Congress collections, informative captions, and essays on state history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of Connecticut for residents, former residents, and visitors.

Combining fifty rare, beautiful, and diverse maps from the Library of Congress, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on state history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of Massachusetts for residents, former residents, and visitors.

Combining fifty rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of the Sunshine State from the collections of the Library of Congress, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on state history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of Florida for residents, former residents, and visitors.

Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, each Fields of Vision volume includes an introduction to the life of a Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographer with 50 evocative images selected from their work in the Library of Congress’s collection. Transporting the viewer to American homes, farms, and streets of the…

Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, each Fields of Vision volume includes an introduction to the life of a Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographer with 50 evocative images selected from their work in the Library of Congress’s collection.Esther Bubley was working as a National Archives technician in 1942 when…

Combining fifty rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of the Lone Star State from the collections of the Library of Congress, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on state history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of Texas for residents, former residents, and visitors.

Combining fifty rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of Colorado from the collections of the Library of Congress, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on Centennial State history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of state history for residents, former residents, and visitors.

There was no one like him. Throughout a career spanning seventy-two years and thirteen American presidents, Herbert Block’s spare, folksy drawings made complex issues seem simple and moral choices clear. Syndicated throughout the country, his cartoons focused on important issues of the time, making Americans take note of the human folly that is politics. Published in conjunction with a Library of Congress exhibition chronicling…

World War II: 365 Days is a unique compilation of riveting text and more than 500 images, many in color, that reveals the drama and complexity of the greatest war in human history. Photographs, lithographs, political cartoons, maps, on-the-scene combat art, and other visual materials from all the major combatants, including much material rarely seen, combine to tell the interlocking stories of people caught…

Told through unforgettable first-person accounts from slave narratives, journals, diaries, and other sources—much of it never before published for young people—this book is an overview of the antebellum South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, from 1800 to 1877. The perspectives of children and adults who lived through this time and witnessed its significant events are provided alongside photographs, engravings, news clippings, and other archival…