Independence Day celebrations are usually filled with fireworks, parades and patriotic festivities. So, how did it begin?

It takes a certain kind of warped sensibility to find the light side of cannibalism. But the late musical theater composer ...

When Stephen Sondheim visited the Library of Congress in 1993, he saw something that stopped him in his tracks. Mark Horowitz ...

The musical theater titan left behind material from beloved shows like “Sweeney Todd” and “Sunday in the Park With George.” ...

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Not any more. Washington is very much where it’s at – apart from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence at weekends of course – and it is chock-full of business heavy hitters and political movers and shakers ...

It got going big-time in 1815, when former President Thomas Jefferson sold his 6,500-volume library to Congress to replace the one that was destroyed when the British burned the Capitol on Aug. 24 ...

The latest tranche of records from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has 175,000 new documents lost in a fire at ...

After a stretch of uncertainty in May in which its leader and another director were removed by President Donald Trump, the Library of Congress is again under fire, ...

A federal judge Tuesday blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to strip hundreds of thousands of Haitian nationals of ...

The Gilded Age robber barons built D.C.’s great mansions for all to admire. Today’s billionaires prefer to hide their spreads ...

Here's what else to do this week in the Washington, D.C. area. Concert - “Stray Kids”: Mon., 5:30 p.m., Nationals Park, $71+ ...