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Los Reyes Magos, ca. 1875-1900, carved and painted wood with metal and string. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Teodoro Vidal Collection CASPAR: I have

“The endless symbolism of forests lies in their low visibility,” writes Anna Arabindan-Kesson, “to move through the dense entanglements of th

  The J. Willard Marriott Library recently debuted a digital exhibit: “A History of Special Collections,” an archival history of the Marriott Library’s archive division. The exhibit details the Special Collections’ origins in 1850 with the founding of the University of Deseret, to the archive’s transition into the Marriott Library in 1968 and finally to...

The Getty Research Institute digitized and translated the 12 books, providing a fresh perspective on the Spanish conquest of the New World

An icon in its native land, the Guatemalan tamale is wrapped in a striking green banana leaf that gives way to an airy corn dumpling stuffed with spicy pork, peppers and olives.

UCLA and Getty Research Institute scholars recently released a digitized version of the Florentine Codex, a 16th-century indigenous Mexican history record, making it a publicly accessible resource for research across the globe.

Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do

Hear presentations from a team of UCLA experts who helped digitize the 12-book manuscript of Nahua culture and knowledge.

The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.

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