|  | | Live! At The Library Thursday, April 02, 2026 | 05:00 p.m. - 08:00 p.m. EDT The Library's Thomas Jefferson Building is open for extended hours every Thursday evening from 5 to 8 p.m. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour snacks and drinks available for purchase in the Great Hall while immersing themselves in the Library's exhibits, collections and programs. Learn more. | Film Screening: Where Danger Lives (1950) Thursday, April 02, 2026 | 07:00 p.m. - 09:00 p.m. EDT "Where Danger Lives" (1950), screening at the Library of Congress's James Madison Building (Pickford Theater), is a dark film noir starring Robert Mitchum as a doctor drawn into murder after falling for a mysterious patient, featuring striking cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca and a screenplay by Alfred Hitchcock collaborator Charles Bennett. Learn more. | |  |  | | Swann Lecture: From Allegory to Archive: Mobility, Familiarity and U.S. Military Media in Korea Wednesday, April 08, 2026 | 12:00 p.m. - 01:00 p.m. EDT Swann Fellow Hyun Kong presents "From Allegory to Archive: Mobility, Familiarity, and U.S. Military Media in Korea," exploring how newspapers, comics, and posters reveal everyday military life during the Korean War. This talk will examine how movement between Korea and Japan shaped representation and offers insight into how archives construct meaning through repetition and context. Learn more. | 2026 Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence featuring Dr. Robert George Thursday, April 09, 2026 | 03:00 p.m. - 04:30 p.m. EDT The Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence welcomes leading voices in legal scholarship; this year's speaker, Robert George, presents "Why Liberal Secularism Fails." Learn more about how to attend in person or register to tune in online. | |  | | | Live! At The Library Thursday, April 09, 2026 | 05:00 p.m. - 08:00 p.m. EDT The Library's Thomas Jefferson Building is open for extended hours every Thursday evening from 5 to 8 p.m. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour snacks and drinks available for purchase in the Great Hall while immersing themselves in the Library's exhibits, collections and programs. Learn more. | Made at the Library: "Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice" by Brian Alexander Friday, April 10, 2026 | 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m. EDT Join political author and professor Brian Alexander for a talk on the groundbreaking research he conducted at the Library of Congress while writing his new book, "Thomas Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice" (2025). Learn more. | |  |  | | Family Day: Birds at the Library? Saturday, April 11, 2026 | 10:30 a.m. - 03:30 p.m. EDT Discover how birds of all kinds show up in Library collections and the Thomas Jefferson Building. Create your own bird and learn about ornithology, birdwatching and more from staff specialists and displays! Learn more. | | | Webinars Click to edit this placeholder text. | |  | | Literacy Awards Webinar: Get to Know the 2025 Top Prize Literacy Awards Winners Wednesday, April 08, 2026 | 03:00 p.m. - 04:15 p.m. EDT The Literacy Awards Webinar Series highlights the 2025 winners and honorees, showcasing innovative efforts to advance literacy worldwide. In this session, top prize winners — Literacy Partners, Literacy Mid-South, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and Building Tomorrow — share community-centered strategies and best practices. Register for this event. | Virtual Volunteering with By the People: Explore, Transcribe and Learn Thursday, April 09, 2026 | 03:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m. EDT Since 2018, volunteers with the Library of Congress By the People program have transcribed more than 1 million historical documents — from the papers of Theodore Roosevelt and Rosa Parks to Walt Whitman and others. Learn how these efforts improve access and discovery, and find out how you can join this virtual volunteer community at crowd.loc.gov. Register for this event. | | Exhibitions at the Library of Congress Click to edit this placeholder text. | | Ojibwe Poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft Open from March 1 through April 30, 2026 Celebrate Women's History Month and National Poetry Month at the Library of Congress with a display of manuscript writings by Ojibwe poet and knowledge keeper Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, including handwritten poems and English renditions of traditional Ojibwe stories from her 1826–1827 "Muzzeniegun" manuscript magazine. Learn more. | | | We're excited to welcome you to the Library of Congress. Free timed-entry tickets are required to enter the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. We encourage you to take a moment to review our page to prepare for a safe and enjoyable visit. | | You are subscribed to Upcoming Events from the Library of Congress. | | | |
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