To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, a series of blog posts will discuss the efforts of Hispanic Reading Room staff to follow recipes taken from cookbooks in the Library of Congress’ collections. The first recipe is arroz con camarones as presented in Nilda Luz Rexach’s The Hispanic Cookbook.
Visiting researcher and librarian Isaac Carranza shares his top five finds related to the Panama Canal (including photographs, blueprints, letters, and announcements) from the collections in the Manuscript Division.
This blog highlights some of the collection items from Ediciones Vigía (Watchtower Editions). These are handmade books that present text and images in interactive and unexpected ways.
A new batch of fifty recordings from the PALABRA Archive (an audio archive dating back to 1943) featuring Luso-Hispanic writers are released as part of National Poetry Month.
(This post is by Nevila Pahumi, Reference Librarian for Modern Greek in the European Reading Room.) February 9 marks International Greek Language Day. In celebration, this blog post discusses modern Greek and the Library of Congress’ modern Greek collections. Modern Greek (Νέα Ελληνικά) dates to the Renaissance. It is derived from Byzantine and ancient Greek, …
The Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress recently acquired a set of the writings of the Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, which the author had presented to his daughter, Sophie. Today, on her birthday, we remember how Sophie and her family used to receive visits from the famous fairytale author, Hans Christian Andersen.
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? …
(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.” …
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
