The library, renamed after former President Barack Obama in February 2021, closed the following month for long-overdue ...

Donald Trump and Barack Obama continue to throw shade at each other, this time with the president taking jabs over his predecessor's unfinished and long-awaited library and museum.. During the ...

Julian Zelizer notes that former president Barack Obama will attend the groundbreaking for his library this week and it’s worth celebrating, despite controversy over its location. In an era of ...

Barack Obama turned to the Kankakee librarians when he kicked off an effort to push back against book bans earlier this week to support their belief that among their library’s 80,000 books, t… ...

The latest dispute is over Barack and Michelle Obama’s decision not to build a traditional presidential library—which brings a few benefits, and many downsides, for the American public.

As the highly anticipated Obama Presidential Library in Chicago morphed into the Obama Presidential Center—without a place to hold the records of his administration—reactions ranged from ...

The people who are not authorized to speak have spoken: Barack Obama’s presidential library and museum will be built on Chicago’s South Side. Multiple anonymous sources told multiple news ...

CHICAGO — When the Barack Obama Presidential Center opens in 2021, it will sprawl across 20 acres on this city's densely packed South Side. A museum will occupy one towerlike building; another ...

CHICAGO — Former president Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled the conceptual design of his future presidential library and museum in the city's historic Jackson Park — and laid out his vision ...

The Obama Presidential Center promises to be a presidential library like no other. The four-building, 19-acre “working center for citizenship,” set to be built in a public park on the South ...

HONOLULU — -- Barack Obama is a coral polyp. Or so say the visionaries behind Hawaii’s bid to host their native son’s future presidential center, library and museum.