Archive: 2024 (3 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Andrea J. Briggs; (Year) 2024

Detail from a visual outline for “So Imagined Mercado” (“Blue Antiquity”), by Oscar Hijuelos, undated.

Hispanic Heritage: Oscar Hijuelos Papers Newly Available in the Manuscript Division

September 12, 2024

This is a guest blog by Barbara Bair, historian of Literature, Culture, and the Arts in the Manuscript Division. In 1990, author Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) became the first Hispanic American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989). He later received the Hispanic Heritage Award …

Posted in: Hispanic and Latino History, Literature Culture & the Arts

Melissa Capozio Jones at Robert Lavender’s grave, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA, February 2024.

Behind the Scenes: Meeting Captain Lavender

August 15, 2024

Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs

A brief look at the life and collection of Robert A. Lavender, and an archivist’s one-sided but deeply felt relationship with the collection.

Posted in: Aviation, Behind the Scenes, War and Society

Red Christmas card with details of white flowers in a vase and a red bird on green plants, from Tan Xiangjin at the National Library of China, Beijing, 1979.

Intern Spotlight: Without Borders: Warren M. Tsuneishi’s World of Knowledge

January 11, 2024

Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs

Discover how former Library of Congress Asian Division chief Warren M. Tsuneishi built bonds across nationalities and languages through a shared love for books and knowledge.

Posted in: Asian American History, Intern Spotlight, Library of Congress History

Refined by: (Author) Andrea J. Briggs; (Year) 2024