Science Fiction Literature from North Korea
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Is there science fiction in North Korea? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. This blog looks at some of its characteristics.
Posted in: Asian Division
Archive: 2020 (27 Posts)
Secular and Spiritual Power: Notable 14th-Century Scandinavian Women
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
A brief glimpse into the interconnectend lives of several powerful medieval Scandinavian women.
Posted in: European Reading Room, Uncategorized
Anandibai Joshee: The First Indian Woman to Earn a Medical Degree in the United States
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Anandibai Joshee (1865-1887) was the first woman from India to earn a degree in western medicine in the United States.
Posted in: Asian Division, South Asia
Digging up the Truth: Studying Ancient West Mexican House Models
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
(This is a guest post by Bianca Poma, a 2020 Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Archaeological Research Fellow at the Library of Congress. The post originally appeared on the Worlds Revealed Blog.) Since the moment I could carry on a well phrased conversation, I have always been curious by nature and have asked a lot …
Posted in: Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, Native American History, Native Americans
Herencia y el patrimonio cultural: La importancia del trabajo comunitario en los servicios de la División Hispánica
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
[Haz clic aquí para versión en inglés] La División Hispánica apoya con entusiasmo la nueva campaña de crowdsourcing de La Biblioteca Jurídica del Congreso y By the People (BTP): #Herencia: una iniciativa cuyo propósito será mejorar el acceso a la importante colección de documentos jurídicos españoles de la Biblioteca del Congreso. Este es el primer proyecto …
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room
Herencia and Cultural Patrimony: The importance of community work in Hispanic Division Services
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
[Haz clic aquí para la versión en español] The Hispanic Division is excited to support the Law Library of Congress and By the People (BTP) in their invitation to improve access to a collection of Spanish Legal Documents. The Herencia BTP crowdsource campaign is the first at the Library of Congress to focus on Spanish, …
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room
Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Radical Early-American Almanac
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Benjamin Franklin Bache, grandson of Benjamin Franklin, disseminated his grandfather's and his own revolutionary principles through the materials he disseminated as a printer, especially his almanacs.
Posted in: European Reading Room
The Illustrated Album of the Kemeng Guyang Miao People
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
This blog describes the digitized Chinese rare book “The Illustrated Album of the Kemeng Guyang Miao People,” an ethnographic work describing the indigenous Miao people of southwest China.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Tauchnitz Publisher’s “Forbidden” Editions at the Library of Congress
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
(The post is by intern Shelby Reidle, European Division) The Bernhard Tauchnitz firm was established in Leipzig, the German center of literature and book publishing, in 1837. The Tauchnitz “Collection of British Authors” debuted in 1842 with the novel “Pelham” by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Despite its name, the Collection included American works from the very …
Posted in: European Reading Room