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Posted by: Taru Spiegel
The Tsine-Louine tea company’s postcard series (1899-1904) displays scenes from the company’s trading route along the new Trans-Siberian railroad, highlighting the intersection of trade and the further incorporation of Siberia into the Russian empire through the railroad.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
The famous Russian composer, Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), wrote a number of operas. The Library of Congress has a copy of his first opera, “The Maid of Pskov,” in an 1892 edition that originally belonged to the Russian imperial family, the Romanovs.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
A Library of Congress historian looks at the real Queen Charlotte, consort to King George III of Britain, in contrast to the fictitious “Bridgerton” royal.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Reference librarian Matt Young describes his work at the Library of Congress as the Russian Specialist in the European Division.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Thomas Mann‘s emigration to the United States in 1938 was one of many watersheds in a turbulent life. An important part of this life-change was his association with the Library of Congress from 1941 to 1952.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
English kings ruled Aquitaine from the 12th to the 15th centuries. There is still architectural evidence of English influence in that part of France.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
In recognition of National Native American Heritage Month, this bibliographic essay on Mesoamerican ethnohistory by Bradley Benton and Peter Villella for the Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) explores Indigenous life and cultures, particularly Aztec and Maya, before, during, and after the Spanish conquest.
Posted in: Handbook of Latin American Studies, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, Latin America, Native American History, Native Americans
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
19th-century Danish immigrants to the United States held differing religious views.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Effective September 2020, the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (AHLOT) will become the PALABRA Archive. With the new brand, the Library of Congress marks this archive’s transition from an analog archive to a digital one. Fifty new audio recordings from the PALABRA Archive will be made available for online streaming.
Posted in: Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, Latin America, National Hispanic Heritage Month, PALABRA Archive