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Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This blog introduces a traditional 19th-century Chinese map with colored illustrations showing the last imperial pilgrimage to Mount Wutai in Chinese history made by the Qing emperor Jiaqing in 1811.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
19th-century Danish immigrants to the United States held differing religious views.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
The 11th Librarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford was instrumental in the early development of the international collections at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Asian Division, European Reading Room, Hispanic Reading Room
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This is a guest blog interview was submitted to the Hispanic Division by patrons Anna Deeny Morales and Nelcy Denice Ávila. It offers context on The Gabriela Mistral Youth Poetry Competition as a legacy to this Chilean poet, who was the first Latin American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945.
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, National Hispanic Heritage Month
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Effective September 2020, the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (AHLOT) will become the PALABRA Archive. With the new brand, the Library of Congress marks this archive’s transition from an analog archive to a digital one. Fifty new audio recordings from the PALABRA Archive will be made available for online streaming.
Posted in: Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, Latin America, National Hispanic Heritage Month, PALABRA Archive
Posted by: Cameron Penwell
This post explores topics in prewar Japanese periodicals in the Asian Division at the Library of Congress, focusing on titles that deal with the emerging film industry in Japan.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia, Junior Fellows
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Thanks to a partnership with the Upward Bound program at Harvey Mudd College and the Georgetown Internship project, the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress enjoyed the pleasure of working virtually with four high school students from El Monte, California this summer.
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, Latin America, National Hispanic Heritage Month
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
A celebration of the life of Rudolfo Anaya (1937-2020), author of the 1972 book, “Bless Me, Ultima” and many other stories that honored New Mexico and Chicano Culture. The voice of this National Humanities Medal recipient resonates far beyond New Mexico and may also be found in the PALABRA Archive at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, National Hispanic Heritage Month
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This post is a personal reflection on a professional friendship that African Section librarian Eve M. Ferguson had with renowned bibliographer, Abdul Samed Bemath, who recently passed away after producing a third bibliography of the legendary African historian, the late Ali Al’Amin Mazrui, who was memorialized at the Library of Congress in December 2014. Eve Ferguson worked with Bemath to create a chapter in a book of tributes, A Giant Tree Has Fallen: Tributes to Ali Al’Amin Mazrui. Abdul Samed Bemath died in South Africa on July 31, 2020.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), African Section