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Posted by: Joshua Kueh
With 900 freely accessible online items at launch, the South Asian Digital Collection features primary sources on a variety of subjects. This blog looks at the new collection’s items related to colonialism in South Asia, vernacular literature, religion and philosophy, grammar and linguistics, the Rebellion of 1857, and travel accounts by European and American authors.
Posted in: Asian Division, Digital Content, South Asia
Posted by: Alyson Williams
HLAS Online has existed in tandem with HLAS Web for the past decade. As part of ongoing modernization of technical infrastructure at the Library of Congress, HLAS Online will be retired on April 9th, 2024.
Posted in: Announcements, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Hispanic Reading Room, Latin America, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division
Posted by: Cameron Penwell
(The following post is by Cameron Penwell, Japanese Reference Specialist, Asian Division.) On March 31, 1854, the signing of the US-Japan Treaty of Peace and Amity marked the beginning of official relations between the United States and Japan. In connection with the 170th anniversary of this historical event, the Library of Congress has launched a …
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Alyson Williams
Former Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division (LAC&E) Intern, Natté Fortier introduces his project “PALABRA in the Classroom” a new resource designed to bring the PALABRA Archive into the classroom through curated lesson plans for teachers.
Posted in: Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, Hispanic Reading Room, Latin America, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division, PALABRA Archive, Research Guides
Posted by: Suzanne Schadl
This is a guest post by Natali Palacios, a Maryland native in her junior year at the University of Maryland, College Park where she studies Human Development. Natali was selected for an internship in the Latin American, Caribbean and European Division (LACE) through Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). Henry Widener was her mentor. …
Posted in: Brazil, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Hispanic Reading Room, Interns, Latin America
Posted by: Alyson Williams
Former Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division (LAC&E) Intern, Maria Rebecca Escamilla introduces her Storymap “Mexican Women Authors,” a multimedia journey through the works and lives of five seminal Mexican women authors: Inés Arredondo, Elena Poniatowska, Esther Seligson, Carmen Boullosa, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
Posted in: Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, Hispanic Reading Room, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division, PALABRA Archive, StoryMaps
Posted by: David Morris
A personal account of the author’s time as a student in France, followed by a discussion of Arthurian romances in Old French, regional dialects in France, and medieval images in modern cinema.
Posted in: European Reading Room, France, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division, Manuscripts, Uncategorized
Posted by: Suzanne Schadl
(The following is a guest post by Dani Thurber, Reference Librarian, Hispanic Reading Room, Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division) A couple of weeks ago I began searching for love stories and poems from Latin America in preparation for a Valentine’s Day event. My colleagues in the Hispanic Reading Room had some amazing suggestions by …
Posted in: Hispanic Reading Room, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division
Posted by: Muhannad Salhi
The following is a blog that examines the Blake Robinson Recordings of Somali poetry and dance and provides an analysis of the history of poetry in Somalia and the tradition of “poetic battles”
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED)