Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage

Thrilled to share that our founder and director, Dr. Nicolás Kanellos, will receive the National Humanities Medal from President Joe Biden today! @NEHgov

It's #WorldFoodDay, so we're sharing this 1932 page of recipes from 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑒 𝑙𝑎 𝑂𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑒 𝑙𝑎 𝑂𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛, 1932, March 27. 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑆-𝑀𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝐵𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛, latinonewspapers.uh.edu/s/eng/item/668…, p. 11.

The #USLDH at @UHouston announces the release of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic digital archival collection and exhibit. The collection includes articles from US Hispanic #newspapers. artepublicopress.com/1918-influenza… #usLdh @artepublico

“For a long time, Latinos didn’t have a space in museums or special collections. We want to make sure there’s a place for them.” - Dr. Gabi Baeza Ventura, Deputy Director of @artepublico and Director of @apprecovery stories.uh.edu/10724-uh-prese… #apprecovery #usLdh #Latina

How about an #ArchivesOntheRoad trip to the beach? This sketch, by José Valdés Cadilla, published in New York's La Voz depicts a car rental service that families would employ. (Las estampas de Harlem Collection) usldhrecovery.uh.edu/items/show/3840 #archiveshashtagparty #usLdh #apprecovery

KLVL, Houston's first Spanish-language radio station gave away a car in 1957. KLVL provided the Spanish-speaking community with news, entertainment, and resources (Morales Family Collection). #ArchivesOnTheRoad #ArchivesHashtagparty @RepMorales145 @Morales_FH #usLdh

Get ready to take an #Archivesontheroad trip with us! In 1960, Felix Morales, founder of Houston @morales_fh, lent Sigman Byrd a Chevrolet Fleetwood Limo, which drew lots of attention! He wrote about it in the @HoustonChron. (Morales Family Collection) @RepMorales145 #usLdh

Check out the @LatineStories podcast! We are so excited that @ProfeFoulis just sent us some swag!

Join @Estella26845969 & @EmmaPerez08 for an afternoon of powerful #stories: journeys of #women reclaiming their lives, & inspiring #transgendervoices standing up for their rights challenging the past & future. 🗓️ Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024 🕠5:30 pm 📍The Twig Book Shop, San Antonio

New episode! 📣📣📣 In this episode, I talk with Dras. Maria Cotera and Linda Garcia Merchant about their groundbreaking work documenting Chicana activist and their project Chicana Por Mi Raza Memory Collective. #LatineStories #chicanas #oralhistory on.soundcloud.com/ch8pnxTBBeFPou…

Discover how pulgas in the Rio Grande Valley serve the community as important cultural spaces where community and Mexican goods come together to challenge stereotypes and celebrate Latinx traditions. truchargv.com/commentary-why…

🍎 K-12 teachers 🍎 Join us THIS Saturday, October 5 from 10 AM - 1:30 PM at UTSA Downtown for a FREE workshop on Mexican American civil rights trailblazer Alonso S. Perales. Registration is required. Register and learn more at: buff.ly/4dO1g2N

Celebrate Latino heritage this month and all year long with our canvas tote bag featuring archival images of historic figures Leonor Villegas de Magnón, Aracelito García, Félix Varela, and María Cristina Mena! They make great gifts, too! artepublicopress.com/product/recove…

This Friday in San Antonio, our Director of Research, Dr. Carolina Villarroel, will present "Digitizing and Organizing Latino Archives" at the San Antonio and Texas Católico: Westside Parish Project Symposium at @StMarysU calendar.stmarytx.edu/event/san-anto… #usLdh #apprecovery #archives

Dr. @gbaezaventura (Deputy Director of @artepublico /Director of Recovery, @uhouston Professor of #Spanish) presents "Multilingualism and Publishing" at the 2024 Institute for Global Engagement's event, "The Multilingual Advantage: Unlocking Career Potential."

Gabriela Baeza Ventura y Miriam Damaris Maldonado en la exhibición de editoriales en el Encuentro LEE en el Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Puerto Rico. #Latinas #Latina #BOOKS @artepublico @icppr

Houston's three Latina archivists meet to talk about community collections! (From L to R: Carolina Villarroel, Salima Bowaniya, and Mikaela Garza Selley) #archives #archivists #communityarchiving #LatinaArchivists #Latinas #usLdh #apprecovery #Houston #HTX

We're celebrating #nationaldaughtersday with this photo of 3 generations of Leonors from the Leonor Villegas de Magnón Collection. Together, they played a part in preserving the history of the #MexicanRevolution usldhrecovery.uh.edu/collections/sh…

Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement is the most comprehensive account of the struggle by Mexican Americans to secure and protect their civil rights. Find it at @artepublico or via your favorite bookseller: artepublicopress.com/product/chican… #BannedBooksWeek

You can explore her #usLdh digital project Doña Ramona González’s papers online via our digital collections: usldhrecovery.uh.edu/.../the-ramona…

Congratulations to Dr. Cristina Devereaux Ramírez (one of our 2020-2021 #USLDH-@Mellonfdn Grants-in-Aid recipients) on the publication of her book, “A Story of Stories: The Texas Barrio Life and Writings of Doña Ramona González.” ktsm.com/news/early-20t…