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Posted by: Joshua Kueh
This piece, which is the second part of a two-part series on textiles and Asia, looks at story cloths in the context of the Hmong exodus from Laos at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
Posted in: Asian Division, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This piece, which is the first of a two-part blog on textiles and Asia, examines the Urdu women’s magazine “Jauhar-i nisvān̲” from the South Asian Rare Book Collection and what can be gleaned from the magazine about the importance of embroidery to women refugees during the 1947 Partition of South Asia.
Posted in: Asian Division, South Asia
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
From salonnières to revolutionaries, French women played a variety of roles in the the French Revolution.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
The African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress welcomes three Junior Fellows for their summer internships. They are: Chelsey Brown, Briana Gausland and August Kahn.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED)
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
The Hispanic Division hosts Junior Fellows Summer Interns who are creating data visualizations of the collections and the indigenous reaction to the Spanish conquest, and expanding access to Latin American, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latinx writers.
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, Interns, Junior Fellows