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Culture and Folklife 12Hide All
- Auntie Luce's Talking Paintings (Library of Congress)
- Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography (Smithsonian Institution)
- From One Artist to Another: Rudolfo Anaya by Gaspar Enríquez (Smithsonian YouTube Channel)
- I Juana Live in America: An Immigrant's Creative Journey (Library of Congress)
- La Quinceanera: A Coming of Age Ritual in Latino Communities (Library of Congress)
- Making Chocolate: Harper Macaw & Brazilian Cacao Farmers (Library of Congress)
- Mexicans and Americans: Cracking the Cultural Code (Library of Congress)
- Mexico's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera & Afro-Mexican Women (Library of Congress)
- Ring Around the Yunsa Tree: The Harvest Dance of El Carmen (Smithsonian Institution)
- Spanish Gastronomy & Cultural Innovation (Library of Congress)
- StoryCorps Historias (Library of Congress & CPB) StoryCorps Historias is an initiative to record the diverse stories and life experiences of Latinos in the United States. Each conversation, with the permission of the participants is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
- Syncretic, Not Synthetic: The Crafts of Peru (Smithsonian Institution)
History 16Hide All
- American Latino National Heritage Fellows (Smithsonian Institution)
- Anthony Acevedo donates artifacts to the Holocaust Museum (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on YouTube)
- The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain (National Gallery of Art)
- Art in Times of Crisis: Shifting States: Iraq, by Luis Cruz Azaceta (Smithsonian Institution)
- An Examination of Hispanic and Latino History (National Archives YouTubeChannel)
- Colonial Florida: Digital History Initiative (Library of Congress)
- Francisco de Miranda & the U.S. (Library of Congress)
- “The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire” (Smithsonian YouTube Channel)
- Islands in the Stream: Cuban Maps from the Past to the Future (Library of Congress)
- Latino Americans – PBS Documentary (supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 (Library of Congress)
- Puerto Rico’s Fragile Modernity: Luis Muñoz Marín by Francisco Rodón (Smithsonian Institution)
- Re-thinking Conquest: Spanish and Native Experiences in the Americas (Library of Congress)
- Spain & the Atlantic Coast of the United States (Library of Congress)
- The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (Library of Congress)
- U.S Rep. Pete Aguilar (Library of Congress)
Music / Performing Arts 30Hide All
- 2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows: Las Tesoros de San Antonio: Tejano Singers from San Antonio, TX, 2019 (Library of Congress)
- American Folklife Center Archive Challenge Sampler Concert 2018 (Library of Congress)
- Agustín Lira and Alma & Quetzal: Cantos de mi canton, Chicano Music from California
- Artemio Posadas: Mexican Music & Dance from California (Library of Congress)
- California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties (Library of Congress)
- Dancing with the Devils: An Interview with Grupo Nuu Yuku (Smithsonian Institution)
- Elena Lacayo of Elena & Los Fulanos Interview, 2018 (Library of Congress)
- Emilio Estefan In Conversation With the Librarian of Congress
- Eva Ybarra, Queen of the Accordion
- Fandango Without Borders (Smithsonian Institution)
- Filosofía Caribeña: Transmitting Afro-Cuban Sacred Traditions through Song (Smithsonian Institution)
- Gabriel Muñoz & Melodias Borinqueñas: Puerto Rican Folk Music from New Jersey (Library of Congress)
- Grupo Rebolú: Afro-Colombian Music from New York, 2018 (Library of Congress)
- Grupo Rebolú Interview (Afro-Columbian artists from New York), 2018 (Library of Congress)
- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (Library of Congress)
- The Last Lullaby: Río Mira and Mourning Music of the Afro-Pacific (Smithsonian Institution)
- Latin American Music Playlists from Smithsonian Folkways
- Live! In the Archive: Lone Piñon Duo, 2020 (Library of Congress)
- Lone Piñon: Acoustic Conjunto from New Mexico, 2018 (Library of Congress)
- Lone Piñon Interview, 2018 (Library of Congress)
- Los Cenzontles: Mexican American Folk Music from California, 2019 (Library of Congress)
- Los Texmaniacs: “México Americano” (Smithsonian Institution)
- Los Texmaniacs: Traditional Conjunto Dance Music from Texas (Library of Congress)
- Marimba Linda Xelajú: Guatemalan Marimba Music from Maryland
- Music of Peru (Smithsonian Institution)
- Negrura Peruana: Afro Peruvian music and dance from Connecticut
- Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac: Aztec dance ensemble from Pennsylvania
- Peruvian Marinera Dance with Marinera Viva!!!
- ¡Que Viva la Música Latina! (Smithsonian Institution)
- Sones de México Ensemble: Mexican American Music & Dance from Chicago (Library of Congress)
Past Hispanic Heritage Month Keynote Addresses 2Hide All
- 2006 Keynote Address: Alberto Gonzales, United States Attorney General (Library of Congress)
- 2003 Keynote Address: Richard H. Carmona, Former U.S. Surgeon General (Library of Congress)
Poetry & Literature 17Hide All
- 2018 Americas Awards (Library of Congress)
- 450 Years of Spanish Poetry in the United States (Library of Congress)
- Américas Award for Children's and Young-Adult Literature 2010 (Library of Congress)
- Américas Awards for Literature and Poetry 2017 (Library of Congress)
- The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (Library of Congress)
Online Collection
La Biblioteca Podcast Series - Border Lives: 2018 National Book Festival (Library of Congress)
- Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada (Library of Congress)
- “Every Day We Get More Illegal” by Juan Felipe Herrera (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Maratón de Poesía del Teatro de la Luna – Spanish Language Poetry Marathon (Library of Congress)
- Poetry Readings from Clayton Eshleman and Gonzalo Corzo (Library of Congress)
- A Spanish Reading of Hemingway (Library of Congress)
- Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera on Rare Cuban Treasures (Library of Congress)
- Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States (Library of Congress)
- Spotlight on U.S. Hispanic Writers (Library of Congress)
- Teatro de la Luna Poetry Marathon (2008) (Library of Congress)
- Teatro de la Luna Poetry Marathon (2011) (Library of Congress)
- The Unlinking of Language & Puerto Rican Identity (Library of Congress)
Politics and Government 3Hide All
- The Need for Global Democratic Governance: The Perspective from Latin America (Library of Congress)
- Prime Minister of Barbados: Owen Seymour Arthur (Library of Congress)
- Tiburcio Carias: Portrait of a Honduran Political Leader (Library of Congress)
Sports 1Hide All
- Reflections on the First Baseball Classic of 2006 (Library of Congress)