<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> When he offered Congress his library, his foes charged that it was full of books which “never ought to be read” and probably ought to be burned</span> </span></p>
<p>The broad expanse of ocean that separated Plymouth from Mother England helped create a novel experiment in democracy that grew as the American colonies expanded.</p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A new book presents uncommon portraits of our past from the photographic archives of the Library of Congress</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A noted historian’s very personal tour of the city where so much of the American past took shape, with excursions into institutions famous and obscure, the archives that are the nation’s memory, and the haunts of some noble ghosts.</span></p>
