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A 19th-Century Chinese Emperor’s Pilgrimage to a Buddhist Mountain: Jiaqing’s...
(The following is a post by Jeffrey Wang, Reference Specialist for the Chinese Collection, Asian Division.) At the beginning of the Qingshui River in China’s north-central Shanxi Province, one will...
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Myths and Realities of the Pre- and Post-Conquest Indigenous World: New...
(This guest post is by Bradley Benton, associate professor of history at North Dakota State University, and Peter Villella, associate professor of history at the United States Air Force Academy. It is...
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Portrait of the Artist as Rain(bow) Maker: Joseph ben Meir Schmalkalden
(The following is a post by Ann Brener, Hebraic Specialist, African and Middle Eastern Division.) Among the rollcall of Jewish artists across the centuries, the name Joseph ben Meir Schmalkalden rarely...
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Mesoamerican Ethnology: Modernity and Tradition in Indigenous Lives
(This guest post in recognition of National Native American Heritage Month is a version of a bibliographic essay by Duncan Earle, Professor of Global Studies, Marymount California University, which...
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The Tale of Two Thangkas: A Digital Journey
(The following post is by Susan Meinheit, Reference Specialist for the Tibetan and Mongolian Collections, Asian Division) This thangka depicts renowned Tibetan saint-scholar Rje Tsongkhapa emanating on...
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Reminders of Plantagenet Power in Today’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
(This post is by Megan O’Connor, intern, European Division. She became intrigued by the ties the English rulers had with Aquitaine.) The name “Aquitaine” has been used for at least two millennia to...
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Now Online: Korean Rare Book Digital Collection
(The following is a post by Cameron Penwell, Japanese Reference Librarian, Asian Division, with contributions from Sonya Lee, Korean Reference Specialist, Asian Division.) From “turtle ships” to...
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Thomas Mann and the Library of Congress
(This crosspost by David B. Morris, German Area Specialist in the European Division, was written for the Thomas Mann House, November 30. The German author and Nobel laureate, Thomas Mann, lived from...
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Is Chocolate More American than Apple Pie?
(The following is a guest post by Suzanne Schadl, Chief, Hispanic Division.) Cacao Illustration in Cacaos and chocolates in the United States of America. New York, Huyler’s chocolate works [1885]This...
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Testimony of the Mad Arab
(The following is a post by Muhannad Salhi, Arab World Specialist, Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division.) “That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even...
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