Frequently Asked Questions: By the People

Materials on By the People represent the diversity of the Library’s collections and are selected from across Library of Congress. Collections are from the Manuscript Division, Law Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Music Division, and Rare Book and Special Collections.

You’ll encounter presidential papers, the personal archives of leaders of movements including women's suffrage, abolition, and civil rights, the work of writers like Walt Whitman, documentation of music and traditions by folklorist Alan Lomax, and much more.

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