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Category: Latin American, Caribbean and European Division

Detail of the Florentine Codex Book II with a box on the left with three rabbits and handwritten text in a column on the right.

Falling Down a Research Rabbit Hole: Navigating and Using the Handbook of Latin American Studies

Posted by: Alyson Williams

This is a guest blog post written jointly by Yuliana Contreras-Abrego, Darian Andrade-Diaz, and Celina Lozano, Archives History Heritage Advanced (AHHA) interns working with the Communities of Practice and Publications team in the Latin American Caribbean and European Division during fall 2024. Can you give us an overview of an AHHA project you worked on? …

Several rows of gray boxes on shelves that house archival materials.

Hands-On with Primary Sources: The Rubinov Papers

Posted by: David Morris

(This post is by Michael Neubert, Head of the European Reading Room.) In the European Reading Room college and graduate students often look for primary sources that they can use to support their research projects. Primary sources such as photographs, letters, and newspaper articles “provide an original source of information about an era or event.” …

Three different images of the poet Camões on a black background.

Luís Vaz de Camões: Portugal’s National Poet at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Alyson Williams

A discussion on the Library of Congress’ collections of works by and about Luís de Camões, Portugal’s national poet, and his impact on English-language, through translation, early American music, and the works of authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Herman Melville

Photo of overlook from Ponte du Hoc off the Normandy Coast of France with barbed wire in the foreground and cliffs in the background. April 2022.

June 6th, 1944: 80th Anniversary of D-Day Normandy Landings

Posted by: Alyson Williams

It was 80 years ago today that American troops launched one of the most daring seaborne invasions in history: the Invasion of Normandy. In honor of D-Day, we have an interview with Erika Hope Spencer, Reference Specialist, French Collections, Latin American, Caribbean & European Division and Megan Harris, Reference Librarian, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center.