Category: Exploring the Early Americas

A Year in Review: Newly Scanned Maps of 2017

December 29, 2017

Posted by: Julie Stoner

Every month on our home page, we provide a monthly list of maps that have been scanned and added to the online collections of the Geography and Map Division. To celebrate the end of the year and to ring in the new, I took a look back at the lists of maps that have been …

Posted in: Exploring the Early Americas, Geography and Map Division, Series: A Year in Review

The Codex Quetzalecatzin comes to the Library of Congress

November 21, 2017

Posted by: John Hessler

Writing is a strange invention. One might suppose that its emergence could not fail to bring profound changes in the conditions of human existence…                                                                           –Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques Time and money are spent in collecting the remains …

Posted in: Exploring the Early Americas, Kislak Collection, Manuscripts, Series: Excavating Archaeology