The Library of Congress has acquired the manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks of ...

A visitor tours the Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress on Oct. 8, 2012. | Alex Wong/Getty Images ...

Carla Hayden, librarian of Congress, was dismissed by the Trump administration on Thursday. No reason has been given. Appointed in 2016 by Barack Obama, she was the first woman and first ...

As John Mulaney noted in a recent episode of Poker Face, Stephen Sondheim is “the best lyricist of the 20th century.” The Library of Congress was only a half-step behind Peacock’s mystery show, as the ...

Items from “Into the Woods,” “Company,” “Sweeney Todd” and more will be enshrined in the archive.