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Indigenous American Cylinder Recordings and the American Folklife Center
Francis La Flesche, the first professional American Indian ethnologist. Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Photograph No. 4504. As November is Native American...
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Narratives of Women and Girls: the Center for Applied Linguistics Collection
For Women’s History Month, I thought it would be interesting to highlight some examples of interviews with women and girls in American English Dialects: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection....
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The Animals Marched In Two By Two: More Songs About Noah’s Ark
In my last post, I discussed the more serious side of songs about Noah’s ark. As I mentioned, though, there are other songs too, often with more celebratory messages–or even silly ones. We’ll look at...
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Corsican Language and Expressive Culture
This guest blog post is by Alexandra Jaffe, who will be speaking on this topic at noon on December 2, 2014 in the Montpelier Room, 6th floor, James Madison Building, Library of Congress as part of the...
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Native American Cultural Revitalization Today
I remember a history class my junior year in high school dealing with the period in United States history when Indian tribes were being forced onto reservations. Presented as a better option were...
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How Hawaiians Saved Their Language
At the time that turned the heat of the earth, At the time when the heavens turned and changed, At the time when the light of the sun was subdued To cause light to break forth, At the time of the night...
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C’est la guerre-That’s the War!
The following is a guest post by Justina Moloney, a Library of Congress Junior Fellow working with the Veterans History Project (VHP) this summer. I own a special collection of letters my father sent...
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The Narragansett People in the Rhode Island Folklife Project
The Women’s Dance at the Narragansett Fall Festival, 1979 (detail). Photo by Thomas A. Burns. Rhode Island Folklife Project Collection, Library of Congress. Folklorist Tom Burns, working as a...
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