But Jefferson had a second motive: His books were bound for Washington, D.C., where they would become the cornerstone of the rebuilt Library of Congress, which the British Army had torched the ...

After you've admired the Capitol, walk along East Capitol Street to the Library of Congress. Comprising three buildings and housing more than 164 million books, manuscripts, sound recordings ...

The Windows 95 start-up audio was composed by ambient music pioneer Brian Eno. According to the blurb from the Library of Congress, the final sound clip was twice as long as Microsoft's engineers ...

The Minecraft theme was added to the US Library of Congress list of Nationally Significant Recordings. The theme was recognized alongside iconic songs, and the Windows 95 start-up sound.

When Jack Danner hit the beach in a landing craft on his first day as an American soldier in Vietnam in 1965, he expected to see bullets flying. “As we pulled into Vietnam everybody was given ...

Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black, Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and the Hamilton original cast album were among the 25 sound recordings that were entered into the Library of Congress ...

WASHINGTON — From the Yellow Brick Road to Chicago (the band, not the musical or city) to “Hamilton,” the Library of Congress has selected 25 recordings for preservation in the National ...

San Antonio Democrat Joaquin Castro on Wednesday revealed three Latin songs selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress after soliciting nominations from ...