A new visual history of the Library of Congress from its creation in 1800 to the present day.

The Story of the Library of Congress 1800-2000.

Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important f

Presents a portait of America's social and cultural history between 1600 and 1900, told through letters, diaries, memoirs, tracts, and other articles and first-