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Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Dr. Jane McAuliffe, Director of The John W. Kluge Center. More years ago than I like to admit, I began graduate work at the University of Toronto in the newly formed Centre for Religious Studies. The director of that fledgling operation was an American scholar of Zoroastrianism, Willard …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
For the tenth year in a row, The John W. Kluge Center will welcome the International Seminar on Decolonization to the Library of Congress for the month of July. This year we’re particularly delighted that two Kluge Center alumni will be among the cohort. Historian Emily Baughan was an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
How does a scholar research a topic as formidable as the Cold War using the Library of Congress collections? Historian Kevin Kim recently answered this question in a blog post for the American Historical Association (AHA). Dr. Kim was the Kluge Center’s most recent J. Franklin Jameson Fellow in American History, a Fellowship offered annually …
Posted in: History
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 Particularly, she was struck by “an adherence to outdated ideas and generally colonial views …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
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?” …
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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 …
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Posted by: Travis Hensley
In 2012 and 2013, Dr. Peter Kalliney was a Visiting Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. Currently the William J. Tuggle Chair in English at the University of Kentucky, during his tenure at the Kluge Center, Kalliney used the Library of Congress collections to research a project entitled, “Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture …
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