But Jefferson had a second motive: His books were bound for Washington, D.C., where they would become the cornerstone of the rebuilt Library of Congress, which the British Army had torched the ...

As for the Library of congress, the James Madison Memorial Building and the John Adams Building are mainly used for scholarly research, but the Thomas Jefferson Building welcomes visitors Tuesday ...

The Library of Congress in D.C. hosting annual commemoration of Japan’s 1912 gift of 3,020 cherry trees to the U.S.

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... In 1776, as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress, he composed the Declaration of Independence, which exposed a contradiction ...