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New Finding Aid: Asian-American and Pacific-Islander Resources

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a repost by Andrew Gaudio, reference librarian and classics, medieval studies and linguistics specialist in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division. The post originally appeared on the Library of Congress Blog.) The Library of Congress collects materials on most subjects, excluding agriculture and medicine. In a collection of over 160 million items, …

Posted in: Asian Division, Finding Aids

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Africana Historic Postcard Collection

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a post by Angel D. Batiste, Area Specialist, African and Middle Eastern Division.) After European powers met at the event called the Berlin Conference in 1884-85 to negotiate and formalize claims to African territory, nations in Africa faced European imperialist conquest and eventual colonization. By 1900 most of the entire African continent, …

Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), African Section, Digital Content, Finding Aids