music First-ever reggaeton track in Library of Congress audio history library: Daddy Yankee's "Gasolina" Rusty Blazenhoff
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
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
gop GOP lawmaker offers an unlikely excuse for his wife who has been "swapping out books" and adding Bibles at libraries Mark Frauenfelder
new york city Witness the birth of Pride: Footage of the first Gay Liberation Day March (1970) Rusty Blazenhoff
colonialism Puerto Ricans resist disaster capitalists and "Puertopians" in Hurricane Maria's wake Elías Villoro
