This blog tells the story of Father Elia Endasian, an engraver, mapmaker, and a keen follower of the scientific advances of his time. The 6 maps (world, continental, and regional) Endasian engraved within 4 years (1784-1787) made an indelible mark on Armenian cartography. The Library of Congress houses these maps and many works by Endasian.
Beginning with Sultan Orhan I (1288-1360) - the second ruler of the Ottoman Empire, as each sultan began his reign he developed his tughra for his official seal. This blog looks at the elements in the tughra and exemplar tughras in the Library of Congress Near East Collections.
Each summer, a talented and motivated group of Junior Fellows brings fresh eyes and enthusiasm to projects around the Library of Congress. Three Junior Fellows interning virtually with the Hispanic Division will explore the Library’s Brazilian cordel and the PALABRA Archive recordings of women writers, helping to provide digital access to these unique collections.
The Library of Congress has six Overseas Offices. Meet Paul Losch, the new Field Director of the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Overseas Operations Office. His early interest in Spanish and then Portuguese led to a career in librarianship. Learn about the Office’s projects, including cooperative acquisitions and collecting materials from popular culture and grassroots organizations.
This blogpost introduces the collection of 2,300 books from Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR), housed in the Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress.
The blog post delves into a Georgetown University Master's capstone project “Reimagining Structural Racism and Inequities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Latino Communities in the U.S. as analyzed through Oral Histories and Children’s Poetry.”
Allegedly created by astronomer-astrologers in the Tang dynasty (618-907), the book of prophecies known as “Tui bei tu” 推背圖 (“Back-pushing Pictures”) is the most renowned work of Chinese mysticism.
The Hispanic Reading Room of the Library of Congress launches The PALABRA Indigenous Voices Project, a new initiative to increase the presence of Indigenous poetry and literature in the historic PALABRA Archive. Through partnerships with scholars and organizations with direct access to Indigenous communities around Latin America, curators hope to shine a light on a formerly under-represented group in this collection.
If These Walls Could Talk is a Story Map that recreates the experience of walking into the Hispanic Reading Room where four gigantic, richly colored murals by the Brazilian artist Cândido Portinari welcome visitors to the Library of Congress.
