This guest post is provided by Ellie Hart, a member of the archival team processing the Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Papers housed in the Music Division. Actress-comedienne Lucille Ball (1911-1989) and musician-actor Desi Arnaz (1917-1986) may be most remembered now for their husband-and-wife hit television series “I Love Lucy” (1951-1957), but within their papers …

This blog post is an interview with Foreign Law Intern at the Law Library of Congress, Laura Baitz.

The John Davis Batchelder Collection includes more than 1,800 signatures from bold-faced names who helped define Western societies from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great, Henry VIII, Napoleon, Beethoven, Debussy, Rodin, Goethe, Voltaire, Isaac Newton, José de San Martin, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Florence Nightingale, Orville Wright, and a host of U.S. Founding Fathers. Many of the signatures are on minor, personal documents that give a window into the daily lives of historic personalities.

Register to join us for a webinar on Wednesday, July 29 at 1:00 p.m. (EDT), where Library of Congress Business Section staff will look at 250 years of Americans investing in the stock market by showing items from our collections representing six different eras.

In 1914, the Ford Motor Company announced that it was doubling the wages of its workers, creating the “Five-Dollar Day.” A simple typewritten report in the James Couzens Papers documents the Company’s efforts to start building more than vehicles and begin “making men and homes” as well.

On June 11, 2026, the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) passed a law to revise the organization and operations of the Police Investigations Department (PID), an independent body that investigates police officers suspected of committing crimes. It removes the PID from the State Attorney’s Office and establishes it as a separate unit in the Ministry of Justice. It also authorizes the justice minister to appoint the PID’s director and a newly created coordinator post within the department to arbitrate disputes over investigations. (Law for Amending the Police Ordinance (No. 45), 5786-2026, (Amendment Law).)BackgroundThe explanatory notes to the proposed bill state that the PID plays a crucial role in upholding the rule of law and protecting the rights of individuals dealing with state authorities....