music First-ever reggaeton track in Library of Congress audio history library: Daddy Yankee's "Gasolina" Rusty Blazenhoff

black history Watch the earliest known film made by a Black production company Thom Dunn

photography Library of Congress asks: Who the hell are the mystery people in these photos? David Pescovitz

pence 1800's "Baron Trump" looks enough like Barron Trump, other parallels, foster time traveling theories Kevin Reome

photography US Library of Congress needs help identifying the people in these photos David Pescovitz

music The Library of Congress is launching an open-source archive of hip-hop samples dating back more than a century Thom Dunn

Copyfight Library of Congress releases 11,700 freely usable photos of "roadside America," taken by John Margolies Cory Doctorow

poetry Joy Harjo named 23rd Poet Laureate, first Native American to serve in U.S. position of honor Xeni Jardin

Copyfight The Copyright Office's DMCA-defanging is nice, but man, there are: So. Many. Hoops to jump through Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Behold! The Library of Congress's audacious plan to digitize and share the nation's treasures Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Founder of Diamond Comic Distributors donates 3,000 comics rarities to the Library of Congress Cory Doctorow

Copyfight The old Register of Copyrights snuck a $25M fake line-item into the budget Cory Doctorow

videos Rosa Parks's papers and photos online at the Library of Congress Cory Doctorow

Science Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress Rob Beschizza

mexico CIA rapist tried to claim diplomatic immunity, sentenced to 30 years in prison Mark Frauenfelder

Experience plunging into a black hole without being spaghettified (NASA video) David Pescovitz

astronomy Prepare for April 8 with antique anthropomorphic depictions of eclipses Natalie Dressed

walt whitman Happy Easter! Read most every surviving scrap of paper Walt Whitman wrote on in the Whitman Sampler Natalie Dressed

portland Portland loses its jug-shaped strip club Jason Weisberger

gop GOP lawmaker offers an unlikely excuse for his wife who has been "swapping out books" and adding Bibles at libraries Mark Frauenfelder