National Hispanic American Heritage Month 2021

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"¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues" / "En los barrios y las grandes ligas"

For nearly a century, baseball has been a social and cultural force in Latino communities across the United States. This new bilingual exhibition shows audiences how generations of Latinas/os have made the game what it is today.

Image credit: Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Selected Exhibits and Collections

Social Media 5Hide All

Art & Architecture 17Hide All

Artists Rule: How a feathered serpent god presided over a forgotten golden age of Mexican art (National Endowment for the Humanities)
An Evening of Collective Art-making with Chicano Artist Mario Torero (Library of Congress)
The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain (National Gallery of Art)
Artwork by Chicano Movement “Artivist” Mario Torero (Library of Congress)
Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art: A Digital Archive and Publications Project (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
Carol M. Highsmith Archive, photographs of Cuba (Library of Congress)
The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place (National Gallery of Art)
El Greco Online Tour (Spanish, 1541-1614) (National Gallery of Art)
Folk Arts of the Spanish Southwest from the Index of American Design (National Gallery of Art)
Francisco de Goya Online Tour (Spanish, 1746-1828) (National Gallery of Art)
Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life (National Endowment for the Humanities, New York Botanical Garden)
Mesilla, New Mexico: History and Architecture of a Border Town (National Park Service)
National Register of Historic Places (National Park Service)
Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906 (National Gallery of Art)
¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now (Smithsonian Institution)
Spanish Missions (Library of Congress, National Park Service and Historic American Buildings Survey)
Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century Online Tour (National Gallery of Art)

The Era of Exploration 6Hide All

1492: An Ongoing Voyage (Library of Congress)
1562 Map of America by Diego Gutiérrez (Library of Congress)
English Exploration of the Americas: Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake (Library of Congress)
Exploring the Early Americas (Library of Congress)
Humboldt in the New World (National Endowment for the Humanities)
The Road to Santa Fe: A Virtual Excursion (National Endowment for the Humanities)

Culture and Ethnography 22Hide All

Afrolatinidad: Art & Identity in D.C. (Smithsonian Folklife)
Altered Altars: The Changing Traditions of Día de los Muertos (Smithsonian Institution)
American Latino Heritage Projects (National Park Service)
Caribbean Americans (Smithsonian Institution)
Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection (Library of Congress)
Crack the Cascarón: A Texan Mexican Easter Tradition Continues (Smithsonian Institution)
La Cultura Cura: How Latinos Are Reclaiming Their Ancestral Diets (Smithsonian Institution)
The Cultures and History of the Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Documenting Ethnobiology in Mexico and Central America, Gettysburg College (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
Ethnography and Folklore: Alan Lomax Collection (Library of Congress)
GeoPACHA: Geospatial Platform for Andean Colonial History, Culture, and Archaeology (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
On Language and Colony (Library of Congress)
The Latino Experience (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Lowell Folklife Project Collection (Library of Congress)
Making Cuban Pastel de Pollo (Chicken Pie) at Home (Smithsonian Folklife)
Mexican & Mexican American Traditions (Smithsonian Institution)
New Mexico Folklife Project (Library of Congress)
Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier (Library of Congress)
The Portuguese in the United States (Library of Congress)
The Social Power of the Taco (Smithsonian Folklife)
The United States of Mestizo (National Endowment for the Humanities)
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Smithsonian Institution)

Economics 1Hide All

Records Relating to the Mexican Labor ("Bracero") Program, 1950 – 1964 (National Archives)

Government, Politics & Law 7Hide All

Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents (Law Library of Congress)
Hispanic Americans in Congress (Library of Congress)
Hispanic Americans in Congress (U.S. House of Representatives)
Mexican Border Crossing Records (National Archives)
Platt Amendment 1903 (National Archives)
Spanish Legal Documents (15th-19th Centuries) (Library of Congress
Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor -- Legal opinions, writings and confirmation documents (Law Library of Congress)

Poetry & Literature 4Hide All

Cuarderno de Ortographia, The first book published in New Mexico in 1834 (Library of Congress)
Sacred Monsters: The Poetry and Fiction of Elizabeth Acevedo (Smithsonian Folklife)
Six Hispanic Literary Giants: Sonnet Masters of the Spanish Golden Age (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Spotlight on U.S. Hispanic Writers (Library of Congress)

History 32Hide All

Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba, 1962 (National Archives)
Anthony Acevedo donates artifacts to the Holocaust Museum (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Facebook)
Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
Baseball Brotherhood (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument -- Fort Matanzas (National Park Service)
Chamizal National Memorial – English | Spanish (National Park Service)
De Lôme Letter, 1898 (National Archives)
Digitized Spanish Mission Records from Tumacacori National Historical Park 1684 – 1848 (National Park Service)
The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire (Smithsonian Institution)
¡a la huelga todos! - The 1942 Sugar Industry Strike in Puerto Rico (Library of Congress)
Hispanic American Records on Historypin (National Archives)
Hispanic American Webpages Preserved in Library of Congress Web Archives
Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas (Library of Congress)
New Mexico, New Spain, Old Cultures: Historic Spanish‐Language Newspapers in Chronicling America (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Mexican Border Crossing Records (National Archives)
The Mexican Revolution and the United States in the Collections of the Library of Congress -- English version -- Version en español
The Mexican Revolution and the United States in the Collections of the Library of Congress English version
Version en español
Military Resources: Mexican War, 1846-1848 (National Archives)
National Archives on Flickr
Platt Amendment, 1903 (National Archives)
Poesias e historias del Caribe (Library of Congress)
Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age (Library of Congress)
Rare Spanish Manuscript Map Showing the Western Borders of the Louisiana Purchase Arrives at the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
The Red that Colored the World (National Endowment for the Humanities)
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (National Park Service)
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (Library of Congress)
Telling All Americans' Stories: American Latino Heritage (National Park Service)
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (National Archives)
The United States Armed Forces and the Mexican Punitive Expedition (National Archives)
The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War (Library of Congress)

Music & Performing Arts 17Hide All

Alberto Nepomuceno Collection (Library of Congress)
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties (Library of Congress)
A Dance of Devotion: The Matachines of Bernalillo, New Mexico (Smithsonian Institution)
Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (Library of Congress)
How Urban Corridos Became the Soundtrack to South Central L.A. (Smithsonian Folklife)
Inter-American Music Festival Foundation papers (Library of Congress)
Laurindo Almeida Papers (Library of Congress)
Lauro Ayestarán Collection (Library of Congress)
The Legacy of Santa Claus and His Mariachi Family (Smithsonian Folklife)
Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Collection (Library of Congress)
Music Industry's “Biggest Day” Marks a Mariachi Milestone (Smithsonian Folklife)
Musical Migrations: The Creative Travels of César Castro (Smithsonian Folklife)
Gershwin Prize: Emilio and Gloria Estefan to Receive 2019 Award
Nuestra Música: Latino Chicago (Smithsonian Institution)
The Sounds of California in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles (Smithsonian Folklife)
Trezoro Ladino: Treasures of Ladino at the Library of Congress [PDF, 890KB] -- special display accompanying this performance: Ladino Songs from Sephardic Diaspora [webcast ]
William P. Gottlieb Collection, Latin Jazz photographs (Library of Congress)