For a couple of hours weekly, the once-restricted Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress will open to visitors.

“Bitch, I just twerked and played James Madison’s flute from the 1800s.”

With headliners like Nick Offerman and Janelle Monáe, the Library of Congress-hosted event is set to draw thousands of attendees.

Floyd Roseberry faces 10 years to life in prison and potential financial penalities.

A man who claimed to have explosives in a truck parked in front of the Library of Congress surrendered to police Thursday afternoon.

Programming for the 10-day festival features Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Roxane Gay, Kazuo Ishiguro, and actor Michael J. Fox.

The annual festival will feature more than 100 different authors and artists in virtual events Sept. 25-27.

The project allows people to create new music using the library’s vast audio collections, which date back more than a hundred years.

The library received nearly 100,000 pieces from Shawn Walker’s complete collection.

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution both used to be housed here.