D-Day Journeys
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Experience D-Day first-hand by tracing the journeys of four veterans who lived through it, in this Story Map produced by the Veterans History Project to mark the 75th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Date:2024-06-04
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California Gold
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Sidney Robertson Cowell, 1930s California Folk Music, and the American Folklife Center
How Geology Shapes History
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This story map explores how the physical features of North America influenced the settlement of cities and development of industry and transportation infrastructure in the eastern United States.
"Time and Fame together glide along" : LuÃs de Camões in the United States
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"Time and Fame together glide along" : LuÃs de Camões in the United States explores the life and works of LuÃs Vaz de Camões and their impact on world literature, particularly in the English-speaking world. The map section travels to various points of importance in Europe, Africa, and Asia in Camões' life and highlights how these places appear in his poetry.
Faces of the Civil War
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This Story Map maps photographs from the Liljenquist Collection at the Library of Congress to events of the Civil War, linking portraits of soldiers to the battles where they fought and died.
Date:2024-09-09
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Owning Big Cats
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Calling all cat lovers - this Story Map tells the stories of cat owners worldwide, and the legislation surrounding ownership.
Date:2024-04-15
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The Great Game and Afghanistan
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This story map describes the rivalry between England and Russia as their spheres of influence in Mughal India, Turkestan and Persia moved closer to each other in South-Central Asia until they met in the newly formed nation state of Afghanistan.
Stolen
An indigenous narrator explores the triumphs, downfall, and history of the Aztec civilization. Collection items from the Library of Congress such as Meso American codices, images, and audio highlight the rise and fall of the Aztecs.
Date:2021-11-30
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Vitality in Mexican Colonia
I study images from the Prints & Photographs Division of a Mexican community that managed to reside in San Antonio during this time. I track their access to clean water sources in order to determine a possible unequal distribution of water to this colonia. The term colonia is used to describe a Mexican or Mexican American rural settlement. My project depicts the vitality of…
Date:2023-02-27
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From Camp to Campus
This Story Map follows experiences of higher education for Japanese American students under WWII Incarceration. The Story Map focuses on articles from the Japanese American Internment Camp Newspaper collection to look at different individuals from the incarceration centers across the United States.
Date:2023-02-27
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RaÃces y Rutas
Library collections illustrate the depth and breadth of the expressive culture and artistry of the nation's Hispanic communities
Surveying the South
Noted architectural photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston created a systematic record of early American buildings and gardens called the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (CSAS), primarily in the 1930s.
Web PageD-Day Journeys External Experience D-Day first-hand by tracing the journeys of four veterans who lived through it, in this Story Map produced by the Veterans History Project to mark the 75th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Web PageCalifornia Gold External Sidney Robertson Cowell, 1930s California Folk Music, and the American Folklife Center
Web PageDescribing Disability Justice in America External A Journey Through Image Description
Web PageHow Geology Shapes History External This story map explores how the physical features of North America influenced the settlement of cities and development of industry and transportation infrastructure in the eastern United States.
Web Page2024 Literacy Awards Winners and Honorees External Presenting the 2024 Literacy Award Recipients
Web PageMexican Women Authors External This Story Map delves into important literary movements in Mexico such as the Half-Century Generation, the Latin American Boom, Hip literature, as well as Postmodern literary movements, exemplified through the writings of five Mexican women authors: Inés Arredondo, Elena Poniatowska, Esther Seligson, Carmen Boullosa, and Cristina Rivera Garza. These writers have pushed forward through the male-dominated narrative and collectively, their works have deeply impacted…
Web PageLand of Milk & Honey: California’s Agricultural Histories in Contemporary Art External Land of Milk & Honey StoryMap is a creative collaboration between staff from the Hispanic Reading Room and the MexiCali Biennial.
Web PageSense of Place: The Vietnam War External The diverse environments of the Vietnam War, from the perspective of American veterans
Web PageAntietam: "The Most Terrible Battle of the Age" External Resources at the Library of Congress
Web PageThe Story of a Bugle Carried by a Union Soldier External One of two StoryMaps exploring American Civil War Musical Instruments within the Liljenquist Family Collection at the Library of Congress, Music Division.
Web Page"A Handsome Box": The Adams Building External Construction, architecture, and history of services in the John Adams Building at the Library of Congress.
Web Page"Time and Fame together glide along" : LuÃs de Camões in the United States External "Time and Fame together glide along" : LuÃs de Camões in the United States explores the life and works of LuÃs Vaz de Camões and their impact on world literature, particularly in the English-speaking world. The map section travels to various points of importance in Europe, Africa, and Asia in Camões' life and highlights how these places appear in his poetry.
Web PageThe Story of a Pair of Drumsticks Carried by a Child Soldier External One of two StoryMaps exploring American Civil War Musical Instruments within the Liljenquist Family Collection at the Library of Congress, Music Division.
Web PageUnfurling LOC's Reel Deal: A Journey Through Microfilm History External A Journey Through Microfilm History
Web PageFaces of the Civil War External This Story Map maps photographs from the Liljenquist Collection at the Library of Congress to events of the Civil War, linking portraits of soldiers to the battles where they fought and died.
Web PageOwning Big Cats External Calling all cat lovers - this Story Map tells the stories of cat owners worldwide, and the legislation surrounding ownership.
Web PageThe Great Game and Afghanistan External This story map describes the rivalry between England and Russia as their spheres of influence in Mughal India, Turkestan and Persia moved closer to each other in South-Central Asia until they met in the newly formed nation state of Afghanistan.
Web PageExploring the Climatological Database for the World's Oceans External This Story Map explores the "Climatological Database for the World's Oceans" to discover what digitized logbook entries from 1750-1850 can tell us about the world.
Web PageStolen An indigenous narrator explores the triumphs, downfall, and history of the Aztec civilization. Collection items from the Library of Congress such as Meso American codices, images, and audio highlight the rise and fall of the Aztecs.
Web PageVitality in Mexican Colonia I study images from the Prints & Photographs Division of a Mexican community that managed to reside in San Antonio during this time. I track their access to clean water sources in order to determine a possible unequal distribution of water to this colonia. The term colonia is used to describe a Mexican or Mexican American rural settlement. My project depicts the vitality of…
Web PageFrom Camp to Campus This Story Map follows experiences of higher education for Japanese American students under WWII Incarceration. The Story Map focuses on articles from the Japanese American Internment Camp Newspaper collection to look at different individuals from the incarceration centers across the United States.
Web PageRaÃces y Rutas Library collections illustrate the depth and breadth of the expressive culture and artistry of the nation's Hispanic communities
Web PageSelf-Publishing from Brazil's Margins: Literatura de Cordel This Story Map highlights and contextualizes the Library of Congress' collections of literatura de cordel, a form of popular poetry from the Northeast of Brazil.
Web PageHistorical Monuments of the First Peoples A brief history of the First Peoples of the United States told through important historical landmarks.
Web PageSurveying the South Noted architectural photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston created a systematic record of early American buildings and gardens called the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (CSAS), primarily in the 1930s.