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By: Elizabeth Novara
Congresswoman Patsy Mink's resolve to defeat gender-based discrimination and fight for women's educational equality encouraged the success of Title IX, which was passed fifty years ago today. Now a new quarter commemorates her legacy.
Posted in: Unfolding History
By: Jaime Mears
In honor of Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month, Library of Congress 2023-2024 Innovator in Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren invites the public to experience hidden portals to five historic Asian American communities created with Library of Congress collections for the month of May. Portals are accessible by mobile device at original sites around the country …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Katie McCarthy
Join us to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month in person or from home!
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
By: Danna Bell
For Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month learn about the resources you can use with your students available from the Library.
Posted in: Teaching with the Library
By: Stephen Winick
In the Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus series, we present selected lectures in our Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lectures series that also had accompanying oral history interviews, placing both together in an easy-to-find blog post. In this post, we'll present a classic lecture from 2018: Joseph J. Palackal and his presentation Syriac Chants & Aramaic Christianity in India. As usual for posts in this series, you'll find a lecture video, an interview video, and a set of links to explore.
Posted in: Folklife Today
By: Jaime Mears
The following is a guest post by Library of Congress Innovator in Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren in conversation with interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Evelyn Hang Yin. “Relational reconstructions” are a creative, experiential research method developed by Yoo Warren for minoritized groups to reclaim archives and access erased moments, histories, and spaces personally meaningful to them, …
Posted in: The Signal
By: Josh Levy
A new resource guide describes the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) collection, a group of individual collections pertaining to notable Asian American authors, scholars, activists, and artists, among others. Collections described in the guide are accessible in the Manuscript Reading Room.
Posted in: Unfolding History
How do you celebrate the start of a new year? Education Programs Specialist Dianne Choie takes us on a tour of the Library's collections pertaining to Lunar New Year celebrations around the world, focusing especially on Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese celebrations.
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
By: Andrea J. Briggs
Discover how former Library of Congress Asian Division chief Warren M. Tsuneishi built bonds across nationalities and languages through a shared love for books and knowledge.
Posted in: Unfolding History
By: Stephen Winick
Welcome back to Homegrown Plus! We're continuing the series with a concert and interview featuring Grammy Award winning American Roots artists Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer together with accomplished Chinese classical hammered dulcimer player Chao Tian. The trio's repertoire includes traditional Chinese and Appalachian music as well as contemporary and traditional music from around the world. They use instruments that include yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), gourd banjo, five-string banjo, ukulele, guitars, dumbek, cello-banjo and mandolin, employing them in unusual combinations to create exciting new arrangements of old music. Cathy and Marcy join Chao in singing Chinese songs, and Chao easily adds her love of American Old-Time music to fiddle tunes and songs. As usual with Homegrown Plus blogs, you'll find the concert video, an interview video, and a wealth of links to related collections and concerts, all right here in this blog post.
Posted in: Folklife Today