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Images of the Earth in American Children’s Books

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

German Fellow Sibylle Machat has spent the past seven months at the Kluge Center researching images of planet Earth in American children’s books. How Earth looks from space is well-known today; satellite imagery of the planet is now a part of our collective consciousness. But before public access to photographic representations of Earth, how the …

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The Legacy of the Third World Project 60 Years Later

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

Sixty years ago, representatives from twenty-nine Asian and African nations gathered in Bandung, Indonesia, for the “Conference of Afro-Asian Peoples,” known more colloquially as the Bandung Conference. The conference discussed economic development, trans-racial unity and uplift among Third World nations in the wake of their emergence from colonial rule. Sixty years later, the term Third …

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My Kluge Odyssey

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

The following is a guest post by Joe Ryan-Hume, 2014 Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. In 2014 I had the pleasure of completing an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded fellowship at The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. A year has passed since then, but …

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The End of a Seminar, the Birth of a New Field of Study

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

The following is a guest post by Dane Kennedy, director of the National History Center, a project of the American Historical Association. It is with a mixture of anticipation and regret that I await the start of the Tenth International Seminar on Decolonization, whose participants will gather at The John W. Kluge Center at the …

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Madeleine Albright Returns to the Library of Congress–Where She Wrote Her Dissertation

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

Earlier this fiscal year–last calendar year–Madeleine Albright sat on the Coolidge Auditorium stage inside the Library of Congress and thanked the Library for helping her to write her doctoral dissertation. “I’d like to thank the Library of Congress,” she said on the morning of November 19, 2014. “I wrote my dissertation on the role of …

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Yü Ying-shih: The Pursuit of Historical Inquiry

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

The following is a guest post by Dongfang Shao, Chief of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress. The 2014 Tang Prize in Sinology was awarded to Yü Ying-shih. The Tang Prize Committee hailed Yü for “his mastery of and insight into Chinese intellectual, political, and cultural history with an emphasis on his profound …

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The True Costs of 100 Years of War

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

Kissinger Chair Bradford Lee arrived at the Kluge Center this fall with an ambitious research question: were the results of one hundred years of American military interventions in foreign conflicts worth the costs of achieving them? He sat down with Jason Steinhauer to discuss his research, in particular his analysis of World War I, a …