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4 Corners: International Collections Program Calendar, 1/18/2019

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 (Voice/TTY) or email [email protected]. Directions Floor Plans Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Research Orientation: European Reading Room A tour of the European Reading Room, and an orientation to the Library’s European collections, is being offered on Tuesday, January 8, 2019 from …

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New Online: Rare 19th Century Autobiography in Arabic by an Enslaved West African Scholar

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(This is a repost from the Library of Congress Blog. The author is Mary-Jane Deeb, chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division.) In the summer of 2017, the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress acquired a collection of unique documents, some dating back to the 1830s. Although the documents are …

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Searching for My Family

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a guest post by poet Rachelle Linda Escamilla, July 11, 2018, Library of Congress, Hispanic Division.) My grandfather, Alejo Hernandez, told me about his multiple crossings into the United States over a bowl of menudo and corn tortillas; the first time he crossed was through the Bracero Program, but in later crossings he …