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11 Well-Read Facts About the Library of Congress

(via History and mental_floss) On this day in 1800, President John Adams approves legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase “such

(via mental_floss) In the early spring of 1943, Girl Scout Cookie chairwoman A.A. Rabe had some devastating news for residents

(via mental_floss) For over two centuries, the Library of Congress (LOC) and its staff have served as invaluable resources for

(via Atlas Obscura) In the waning months of World War II, as the likelihood of a land invasion of the

(via mental_floss) Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, gained freedom and

(via mental_floss) American painter Gilbert Stuart’s legacy is defined, in part, by his iconic painting of the first U.S. President,

(via mental_floss) Few paintings are as iconic as Grant Wood’s American Gothic. The piece’s staging is so embedded into American

(via Popular Mechanics) It’s been nearly eight decades since FDR enacted the first programs of the New Deal, and its

(via CNN) Sometimes presidential inaugurations are full of pomp and circumstance. Sometimes they end with the newly sworn-in president jumping

(via First We Feast) From January 17th, 1920 until December 5th, 1933, the 18th Amendment (a.k.a the Volstead Act) to

(via Atlas Obscura) When, in 1926, a new highway called U.S. Highway 66 was opened between Illinois and California, few

(via Atlas Obscura) Of all the species that were once absurdly abundant in American landscape—the bison, the passenger pigeon—the American