Library of Congress curator Mark Dimunation embarked on years-long mission to track down copies of books once owned by Thomas Jefferson. Molly Roberts For more than a decade, Mark Dimunation has led a ...
On Jan. 30, 1815, President James Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating $23,950 to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s library of 6,487 volumes. After capturing Washington, D.C. in 1814, the ...
Author and journalist George Pendle loves the bombast of the world’s largest library. He takes us behind the scenes ...
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