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Archive: November 2021 (2 Posts)

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Reimagining Home: Armenian Memorial Books at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a post by Khatchig Mouradian, Armenian and Georgian Specialist, Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division.) The destruction of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenian population during World War I severed the connection of survivors and their descendants from their ancestral homes in what is today the Republic of Turkey. Scattered around the …

Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Near East Section

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PALABRA Archive Launches 50 Previously Unpublished Audio Recordings

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a post by Catalina Gómez, Reference Librarian in the Hispanic Reading Room.) The Hispanic Reading Room is happy to announce the release of 50 previously unpublished recordings from the PALABRA Archive for online streaming. Every year, as is tradition, a brand new batch of material from this historic literary collection is made …

Posted in: Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, National Hispanic Heritage Month