Interview with the Library’s Russian Reference Specialist
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
Category: European Reading Room
Thomas Mann and the Library of Congress
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
Reminders of Plantagenet Power in Today’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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
The “Happy Danes” vs. the “Sad Danes”: Assimilation and Religious Divide amongst Danish American Immigrants
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
19th-century Danish immigrants to the United States held differing religious views.
Posted in: European Reading Room
A Summer Walk. Mumford. International Collections.
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
The 11th Librarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford was instrumental in the early development of the international collections at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Asian Division, European Reading Room, Hispanic Reading Room
European Division Says Goodbye to Summer’s Virtual Interns
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Virtual interns at the European Division of the Library of Congress, summer 2020.
Posted in: European Reading Room, Junior Fellows
A Journey from St. Petersburg to Siberia to Washington, DC
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
The Rare Book & Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress has one of only thirteen known copies of the radical Alexander Radishchev’s banned 1790 novel “Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu” (A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow).
Posted in: European Reading Room
Women in the French Revolution: From the Salons to the Streets
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
From salonnières to revolutionaries, French women played a variety of roles in the the French Revolution.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Rare Srbulja from Venice in the Library of Congress
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
The Library of Congress has acquired a 1538 menologion, or Orthodox Eastern ecclesiastical calendar, from the influential printing press of Božidar Vuković (ca. 1460-1540) whose works were known for their beauty and technical achievement.
Posted in: European Reading Room