In 1938, composer Harold Arlen went for a drive with his wife to curb some writer’s block. It worked: When they returned home, Arlen had conjured the melody to “Over the Rainbow,” the centerpiece song ...

Visitors will be welcome to view the Library of Congress’s Main Reading Room, one of Washington's most beautiful and iconic spaces, beginning Tuesday, April 11.

Thomas Jefferson Building. Jim Higgins, photographer. "Jefferson’s Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress" Main reading room. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington.

"Someday I'll wish upon a star + wake + find the darkness far behind me," E. Y. (Yip) Harburg scrawled in pencil on a piece of yellow legal paper. And so was born a classic.

Mark Bilyeu and Cindy Woolf, known as The Creek Rocks, returned to Washington, D.C., recently to perform old-time songs at ...

The Library of Congress has acquired rare handwritten music and lyric sketches from Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg’s The Wizard ...

Visitors take pictures in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building on Tuesday.

A controversial change proposed as part of a plan to make the Library of Congress more accessible and exciting to tourists is being shelved.

The program was performed on Friday, January 26, 2024 at 7 pm at the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Coolidge Auditorium, ...