Jacquelyn Serwer News Today

Jeff flannery thank you. I am the head of the reader and Services Section and i would like to welcome you to the library of congress. The Manuscript Division is custodian to approximately 63 million primary source documents. Among our other personal papers of 23 u. S. President and numerous other wellknown americans, including the poet walt whitman, aeronautic pioneers orval and Wilbur Wright , and a civil rights icon rosa parks. 170 years after his death Andrew Jackson still dominates the perio...

The museum celebrated the 20th anniversary of legislation that funded it this week, but it can trace its origins back to Black veterans who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War.