The collection documents songs that made it into Sondheim’s musicals, and it also documents cut or unused songs that were edited out of shows before they opened. Rarest of all, it documents songs that ...

The National Film Registry was set up to recognize these incredible films, and iconic movies get inducted into the the ...

For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress ... for $60,000 to the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, on Nov. 12, 1924. And yet there was no legal mechanism in place ...

The Ancient Maya may have had large libraries and an advanced writing system, but very little remains today. Indeed, only ...

There are two certainties as voters go to the polls Tuesday: The winners will assert that these races foreshadow next year’s ...

Proposition 50, the only statewide measure on California's November ballot, is about the balance of power in Congress. It would redraw the lines of California's 52 Congressional districts, in an ...

On a five-day trip to Brazil, for the Earthshot Prize and COP30, he was mobbed by people with stories of meeting his mother ...

The year is 1925. The Great Gatsby is published, the jazz age is swinging, and on October 28th, a new concert hall opens at an unlikely spot — the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. If only its ...

U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia confirms he won’t seek reelection days after the Illinois Democrat backed a quiet effort to get ...

For most of President Donald Trump’s second term, Republicans have bent to his will. But in two Midwestern states, Trump’s plan to maintain control of the U.S. House in next year’s election by ...

A federal shutdown that began on October 1 is poised to impact millions of Americans as funding for programs like food assistance is set to expire. In Michigan, approximately 575,000 households could ...

In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the conservative majority signaled it might prohibit using race as a factor in creating election districts. Resulting redistricting could let states cement ...