The Library of Congress has joined the Digital Public Library of America as a content hub and is sharing around 5,000 objects from its map collections.

A 1602 world map created by the Italian-born Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci, which places China at its center, is on display at the Library of Congress.

Map lovers rejoice: soon, thousands of maps from the Library of Congress’ collection will be free to gaze at online. Thanks to a new partnership with the Digital Public Library of America, about ...

A new exhibit highlights beautiful, funny, and intriguing illustrated maps of the Big Apple from New York Public Library’s huge collection. In 1664, the British captured New Amsterdam.

Rare film reviews of New York City from more than a century ago were recently posted on the Library of Congress website. They were shot between 1898 and 1903 for the Edison Manufacturing Company an… ...

A footnote to this story: On Wednesday, Hayden, the Library of Congress, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York will present more than 163,000 pages, books, manuscripts, and maps to the ...

When he learned that the Pioneer Historical Museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota, had a second copy of the map, named "Square and Stationary Earth," Homuth decided to donate his copy to the Library ...