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Spotlight on U.S. Hispanic Writers (Library of Congress)
The Hispanic Division and the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress have launched a collaborative series of recorded interviews, “Spotlight on U.S. Hispanic Writers.” This series is co-sponsored by Letras Latinas , the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Image credit: Photo credit: Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2015- Library of Congress
Selected Exhibits and Collections
On Social Media 4Hide All
Art & Architecture 20Hide All
- Artists Rule: How a feathered serpent god presided over a forgotten golden age of Mexican art (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Art of Mestizaje: Fusion in Latin America (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain (National Gallery of Art)
- Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492–1898 (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (National Gallery of Art)
- The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place (National Gallery of Art)
- Carol M. Highsmith Archive, photographs of Cuba (Library of Congress)
- 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)
- Luis Meléndez: Online Feature (National Gallery of Art)
- 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)
- Portrait of the Past: Excavating the Pre-Classic Maya Murals at San Bartolo (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Posters from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) of Puerto Rico 1949 to 1989 (Smithsonian Institution)
- Reconsidering Rivera (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- 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 9Hide All
- American Latino Heritage Projects (National Park Service)
- A Celebration of Mexico (Library of Congress)
- The Cultures and History of the Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
- Ethnography and Folklore: Alan Lomax Collection (Library of Congress)
- Hispanic Reflections on the American Landscape: Identifying and Interpreting Hispanic Heritage (National Park Service)
- The Latino Experience (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier (Library of Congress)
- The Portuguese in the United States (Library of Congress)
- The United States of Mestizo (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Economics 1Hide All
- Records Relating to the Mexican Labor ("Bracero") Program, 1950 – 1964 (National Archives)
Government, Politics & Law 6Hide All
- Executive and Legislative 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)
- Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor -- Legal opinions, writings and confirmation documents (Law Library of Congress)
Poetry & Literature 3Hide All
- Cuarderno de Ortographia, The first book published in New Mexico in 1834 (Library of Congress)
- 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 27Hide 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)
- De Lôme Letter, 1898 (National Archives)
- Digitized Spanish Mission Records from Tumacacori National Historical Park 1684 – 1848 (National Park Service)
- From the Rainforest: Rescuing an Altar from Looters (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire (Smithsonian Institution)
- Hispanic American Records on Historypin (National Archives)
- Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence (Smithsonian Institution)
- New Mexico, New Spain, Old Cultures: Historic Spanish‐Language Newspapers in Chronicling America (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Mexican Border Crossing Records (National Archives)
- Military Resources: Mexican War, 1846-1848 (National Archives)
- National Archives on Flickr
- Platt Amendment, 1903 (National Archives)
- 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)
- San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (National Park Service)
- School Desegregation and Civil Rights Stories: Orange County, California (National Archives)
- The Soul of a Free Man: Toussaint-Louverture (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- 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 3Hide All
- California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties (Library of Congress)
- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (Library of Congress)
- William P. Gottlieb Collection, Latin Jazz photographs (Library of Congress)