Hispanic American Heritage
     
  Links to related primary sources from the Library of Congress  
     
     
  Web Guides
  1. The Hispanic Reading Room
  2. Hispanic & Portuguese Collections: An Illustrated Guide
  3. Handbook of Latin American Studies
  4. Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape
  5. The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps
  6. A Guide to the Mexican War
  7. A Guide to the Spanish-American War
  8. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  9. Latinos in Math & Science: Resources for kids, young adults and teachers
 
     
     
  Global Gateway
  1. Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States and the American Frontier
  2. Country Profiles: Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico and Venezuela
  3. Country Studies: Americas and Spain
 
     
     
  Exhibitions
  1. 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
  2. Exploring the Early Americas
  3. The Jay Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress
 
     
     
  American Memory Collections
  1. Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age
  2. Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande
  3. The WPA California Folk Music Project (Mexican, Puerto Rican, Spanish songs)
  4. The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
  5. The South Texas Border, 1900-1920
 
     
     
  America's Library
  1. Dia de los Muertos Celebration
  2. California (Old Spanish Days in Santa Barbara)
  3. Colorado (Cinco de Mayo)
  4. Florida (Calle Ocho-Miami Carnival)
  5. New Mexico (The Spanish Market)
  6. U.S. officially takes control of Puerto Rico
  7. Jose Manuel Gallegos: U.S. Representative
  8. St. Augustine established
 
     
     
  Veterans History Project
  1. Hispanics in Service
 
     
     
  Spotlights, Features & Special Presentations
  1. Hispanic Exploration in America: Primary Source Set
  2. The 1562 Map of America by Diego Gutiérrez
  3. Cuarderno de Ortographia
  4. Immigration: Mexican
  5. Immigration: Puerto Rican/Cuban
  6. The Motion Picture Goes to War: The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Revolution
  7. The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War
  8. Portinari Murals
  9. American Treasures: Portinari Murals
  10. American Treasures: Capturing the Spanish-American War
  11. Columbus' Coat of Arms
  12. American Treasures: Columbus Reports on Discoveries of Island of India
  13. American Treasures: Columbus's Book of Privileges
  14. American Treasures: History of New Spain
  15. American Treasures: Huexotzinco Codex, 1531
  16. American Treasures: Mapping the New Discoveries
  17. American Treasures: Caribbean Map
  18. American Treasures: Field Recordings in Spain
  19. Rudolfo Anaya: Fiction, Plays and Children's Fiction
  20. Spanish's Gift to English
 
     
     
  Lesson Plans & Activity Ideas
  1. The Huexotzinco Codex
  2. The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps
  3. Columbus' Coat of Arms
  4. Collection Connections: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
  5. Collection Connections: Spain, the United States and the American Frontier
  6. Collection Connections: Around the World in the 1890s
  7. Collection Explained: Hispano Music and Culture from the Northern Rio Grande
  8. The Buccaneers of America Interactive
  9. Recording History Interactive
  10. Reading Pre-Columbian Artifacts Interactive
  11. Tortuguero Box Interactive
  12. Conquest of Mexico Paintings Interactive
 
     
     
  Images
  1. Archive of Hispanic Culture
  2. Images of Christopher Columbus and His Voyages
  3. Images from Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain
  4. Spanish American War and Philippine Insurrection
  5. War with Mexico
  6. Spanish Civil War poster collection
 
     
     
  Today in History
  1. From the Halls of Montezuma: Nicaragua (January 2)
  2. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2)
  3. Cinco de Mayo (May 5)
  4. Guantánamo Bay (June 10)
  5. Dominican Republic (June 26)
  6. The Spanish Civil War Begins (July 17)
  7. Mexican Americans and United Farm Workers of America (August 22)
  8. Cry of Dolores: Mexican Independence Day (September 16)
  9. The Quest of Ponce de Leon (September 27)
  10. Columbus Day (October 12)
  11. Puerto Rico (October 18)
  12. Don Jose Manuel Gallegos (October 30)
  13. The Gadsen Purchase (December 30)
 
     
     
  Articles
  1. Heritage of Hispanics
  2. A Brief History of Puerto Rico
  3. Parallel Histories
  4. 'Red Hot Salsa!'
  5. A Man with a Mission ... In California
  6. Conquest of Mexico
  7. Highlighting Hispanic Heroes
  8. The Shared History of the Americas
 
     
     
  Dance, Music & Literature   (streaming RealVideo ® & MP3 audio files)
  1. Ballet Folklorico Mexicapan
  2. Rhythms of Flamenco
  3. Spanish dancer from Madrid
  4. A Different Drum
  5. La bandera de las estrellas
  6. Author Pat Mora
  7. Author Marie Arana
  8. Author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
  9. Author Marie Arana
  10. Author Ana Menendez
  11. Author Sonia Manzano
  12. Author Francisco Hernandez
  13. Author Rhina Espaillat
  14. Author Junot Diaz
  15. Author Carmen Agra Deedy
  16. Author Myrka Dellanos
  17. Author Elsa Cross
  18. Author Judith Ortiz Cofer
  19. Author Maria Celeste Arraras
  20. Author Julia Alvarez
  21. Author Isabel Allende
  22. Octavio Paz Symposium
  23. 450 Years of Spanish Poetry in the United States
  24. The XVI Poetry Marathon of Teatro de la Luna
  25. The 2010 Maratón de Poesía
  26. Red Hot Salsa poetry reading
  27. Poetry Readings from Clayton Eshleman and Gonzalo Corzo
  28. Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada
  29. Hemingway in Pamplona
  30. A Dialogue on the 400th Anniversary of 'Don Quixote'
  31. Cross Cultural Communications: U.S. Writers Translating Hispanic Writers
 
     
     
  Webcasts   (streaming RealVideo®)
  1. Kislak Ceramics
  2. And Wheat Completed the Cycle: Flour Mills, Social Memory, and Industrial Culture in Sonora, Mexico
  3. Mosquito Empires
  4. The Royal Commentaries of the Inca
  5. Francisco Pareja: Missionary and Linguist in Spanish Colonial Florida
  6. Ethnography, Identity and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico
  7. Peasant Movement of Papay: Morning Session and Afternoon Session
  8. The Royal Commentaries of the Inca
  9. The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
  10. Avoiding the Fate of the Mayans
  11. Re-thinking Conquest: Spanish and Native Experiences in the Americas
  12. Engineering in the Andes Mountains
  13. Fernando Cardoso "Dependency and Development in Latin America"
  14. 21st Century Public Policy in the Americas
  15. Teresita Martinez-Vergne on Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic
  16. La Quinceanera: A Coming of Age Ritual in Latino Communities
  17. Mexicans and Americans: Cracking the Cultural Code
  18. The Need for Global Democratic Governance: The Perspective from Latin America
 
     
     
  Congressional Activity
Information and remarks on the celebration of Hispanic American Heritage Month can be found here.
Hispanic Americans in Congress
Supreme Court Nominations: Sonia Sotomayor		  
     
     
  Recommended Links to Resources Outside the Library of Congress
  1. Latin American Links for Teachers
  2. Selected Links to Additional Hispanic Internet Resources
  3. Exhibits & Collections
  4. Posters from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) of Puerto Rico - 1949 to 1989
  5. When Worlds Collide: the Untold Story of the Americas After Columbus (PBS)
  6. Teaching with Historic Places: Hispanic History (National Park Service)
  7. Hispanic Heritage Teaching Resources (Smithsonian)
  8. National Hispanic Heritage Month (National Endowment for the Humanities)
 
     
     
  < Back to Source Sets  
     
     
  Boazio, Baptista. From "Santo Domingo, Hispaniola." 1589. Jay I. Kislak Collection Rare Book and Special Collections Division.  
     
     
  L. Prang & Co., "Columbus taking possession of the new country." 1893. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.  
     
     
  Mullen, Buell. "Columbus Coat of Arms." 1940. Mural on the south wall of the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress.  
     
     
  Portinari, Cândido. "Discovery of the Land." 1942. Mural on a vestibule wall of the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress.  
     
     
  Portinari, Cândido. "Entry into the Forest." 1942. Mural on a vestibule wall of the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress.  
     
     
  Portinari, Cândido. "Teaching of the Indians." 1942. Mural on a vestibule wall of the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress.  
     
     
  Portinari, Cândido. "Discovery of Gold." 1942. Mural on a vestibule wall of the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress.  
     
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