Library of Congress Audio & Video

The Library's Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music.

The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond.

Music and the Brain is a thought-provoking two-year cycle of lectures and special presentations at the Library of Congress that highlights an explosion of new research on music and the brain.

William Cope Moyers spiraled into a crack-cocaine binge that threatened to destroy his life. After multiple attempts at rehabilitation, Moyers was finally able to recover from his addiction and make sobriety the center of his life. Moyers discussed his story.

Through his fiction and non-fiction works, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has sought to repair the damage done to the continent of Africa and its people as a result of European colonization.

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington engages noted author and historian David MCullough in a discussion on John Adams.

R.L. Stine appears at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival.

Joan Halifax Roshi talks about empathy and compassion on the part of caregivers who are tending to the ill and dying. A follow-up was given by George Chrousos, who will discuss the stressors caregivers may experience.

The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others

Condoleezza Rice discusses "Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom" with David M. Rubenstein at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.