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Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
When historian Romila Thapar first reviewed student textbooks in her native India, she was surprised. “I was appalled by the quality of the information that was being conveyed in these books,” she wrote in a 2009 journal article recalling the experience. Particularly, she was struck by “an adherence to outdated ideas and generally colonial views …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
As a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, historian Joseph Genetin-Pilawa is researching his forthcoming book “The Indians’ Capital City: ‘Secret’ Native Histories of Washington, D.C.” He sat down with Jason Steinhauer to discuss the facts, myths, and contradictions of Native presence in the nation’s capital. The Chesapeake has a rich indigenous history that …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
In December, NASA announced that its Mars Curiosity rover measured a tenfold spike in methane in the martian atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory’s drill. Then last week, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provided scientists clear evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus exhibits signs of present-day hydrothermal …
Posted in: Astrobiology, Religion
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
As a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, historian Julia Young is currently researching a new book on Mexican immigration to the U.S. during the 1920s. She sat down with Jason Steinhauer to discuss the history of this migration and the similarities and differences to immigration today. Hi, Julia. By way of background, could …
Posted in: History, Latin America
Posted by: Dan Turello
The following is a guest post by Nancy Lovas, Library Technician at The John W. Kluge Center. For the past six months, I’ve been able to tell people that I work in The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. This statement is invariably followed by two questions: “What is the Kluge Center?” …
Posted in: Astrobiology, General News, History, Politics, Religion
Posted by: Dan Turello
Members of the Library of Congress Scholars Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to scholarship and the Library, with special attention to the Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. The Council includes distinguished scholars, writers, researchers, and scientists. “Insights” will feature some of the work of this highly-accomplished …
Posted in: Philosophy
Posted by: Mary Lou Reker
Recently Tara Tappert, this year’s David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality, gave her final presentation at the Kluge Center. Her lecture was titled “Art from War: Documenting Devastation/Realizing Restoration.” The presentation was, as are all presentations by post-doctoral and senior scholars, open to the public and there was a substantial audience there to …
Posted in: Culture & Society, History, Psychology & Psychiatry, Visual & Performing Arts
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Dr. Jane McAuliffe, Director of The John W. Kluge Center. Later this year, the Librarian of Congress will make someone a millionaire. No, this noble institution has not suddenly entered the world of TV games shows nor, for those of you whose memories reach back to the 1950s, …
Posted in: General News
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The Kluge Center is pleased to announce that the Library of Congress will award one of the largest cash prizes for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences when it confers its John W. Kluge Prize in September 2015. The John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity and its accompanying $1.5 …
Posted in: General News