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Posted by: Alyson Williams
Invitation to collaborate with By the People's Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents campaign through transcribing and reviewing laws, statues, briefs, and more from the 15th to 19th centuries.
Posted in: Collaborations, Spain
Posted by: Suzanne Schadl
The following is a post by Henry Granville Widener, Portuguese Language Reference Librarian, Hispanic Reading Room, Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division Words connect us in so many ways. Whether spoken, sung or written, they can act as the sinews that link our senses and emotions to one another. When I listen to the Library …
Posted in: Brazil, Collaborations, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Hispanic Reading Room, Latin America, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division, National Poetry Month, PALABRA Archive
Posted by: Muhannad Salhi
The blog “Afghanistan Reflected in the Collections at the Library of Congress” captures the full range of collections, print, digital and rare books produced in the local and international languages in and about Afghanistan and currently available for research at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Near East Section
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