Books That Shaped America
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Events

Creating a Dynamic, Knowledge-based Democracy: The passage of the Morrill Act and the establishment of the National Academy of Sciences and the Carnegie libraries, on Monday June 25, 2012, from 8:30 am to 3:30 p.m. The Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, SE, Washington, DC 20540

National Book Festival on the National Mall—September 22–23, 2012