European Division Says Goodbye to Summer’s Virtual Interns
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Virtual interns at the European Division of the Library of Congress, summer 2020.
Posted in: European Reading Room, Junior Fellows
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Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Virtual interns at the European Division of the Library of Congress, summer 2020.
Posted in: European Reading Room, Junior Fellows
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This post introduces the 18th-century Chinese poetry compilation “Imperial Poems on the Summer Resort,” written by the Kangxi emperor.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Hispanic Division Junior Fellows explore the PALABRA Archive of recorded writers to learn more about Bolivian and Maya writers and poets and the value of diverse cultures and languages within the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, Interns, Junior Fellows
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Working remotely, a Junior Fellow analyzed digitized Hispanic collections at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, Interns, Junior Fellows
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
The Rare Book & Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress has one of only thirteen known copies of the radical Alexander Radishchev’s banned 1790 novel “Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu” (A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow).
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Leadership Development Program Fellow Amal Morsy at the Library of Congress talks about her leadership training experience.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED)
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