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AdanGriego
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#Librarian commenting on #books 📚, #libraries, #archives, #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈, #immigration 🌎 & other #USMexicoBorder 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 issues. It’s all my own opinions.
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Researching Argentina? Check @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social raries.bsky.social for recent 3k books from the Southern Cone country tinyurl.com/mu94af8p. Want them in English ABOUT Argentina? We have those too, 1500+ recent ebooks tinyurl.com/bddjcm6m. @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Mexico's #JoseGuadalupePosada creator of the satirical #Calaveras (images 1 & 3) or skulls we see often during #DayOfTheDead. See images from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. Image 2 from #TallerDeGraficaComala. #DiaDeMuertos. @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social
José Guadalupe Posada. El panteón de las pelonas [The Graveyard of the Short-Haired Women]. 1924. Wood block print on paper; 15⅝ × 11½ in. La Calavera Tapatía : una aproximación festiva a la identidad mexicana ancestral.Guadalajara: Taller Gráfica de Comala, 2024. "Versos populares atribuidos al editor Antonio Vanegas Arroyo impresos originalmente por él a principios del siglo XX con un grabado de Manuel Manilla y algunas vin̋etas de José Duadalupe Posada. Impresos nuevamente con una introducción y grabados complementarios de Nacho Gómez Arriola." Limited hand printed edition of 140 copies signed and numbered by the book artist. Letterpress printing with movable metal type. José Guadalupe Posada, Gran Baile de Calaveras (The Great Dance of Calaveras), 1906. Wood block print on paper; 15⅝ × 11½ in.
October 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Yesterday I had 2 classes reviewing #primarysources @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social, a great opportunity to show how history can be documented as it happens: #pandemic #ephemera collected from the streets of San Francisco.
October 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Muitos e-books para sua pesquisa sobre o #Brasil. Faça uma visita virtual ao #StanfordLibraries. / Lots of ebooks from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social for your research on #Brazil 📚https://tinyurl.com/ycybr2v9. Check it Out!
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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#Bolivia held #presidentialelections yesterday tinyurl.com/5n772sf4. For more on the country's socio-political conditions of the last 20 years check out 📚 tinyurl.com/2easrs6e from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. Election ephemera coming soon to Green Library.
October 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Born Sept 30 1765: rebel cleric José María Morelos, independence leader during Mexico's fight (1810-1821) vs. Spain. Often whitewashed in history, he was of #AfroMexican ancestry bit.ly/3BH45k8. See stanford.io/3s6w4Xk & more from 2010 @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social exhibit bit.ly/33FIbkG.
El Rayo del Sur. [Movie poster, 1943]. Stanford Manuscript Collection: M0945, Box 6.
September 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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So many resources (#ebooks, #videostreaming, #ejournals) for you research projects on #LatinAmerica, all from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. Check it out tinyurl.com/5b52vvc8. 📚 🌎@adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social #Libraries
September 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth: Check out some of the limited edition books from Biblioteca Americana (18 titles) tinyurl.com/ycj3jubw. All housed in @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social Special Collections. #LatinxHeritageMonth
Baez, Frank. La Marilyn Monroe de Santo Domingo. Madrid: Estampa Ediciones, 2016. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11691017 Grigsby, Carlos, and Norberto. Gil. Tarde del Tropico. Biblioteca Americana. Madrid: Estampa Ediciones, 2018. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12781310 Jaramillo Agudelo, Darío, and Ramiro Fernández Saus. Gatos. Madrid: Estampa Ediciones, 2011. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9351365
September 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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#MiguelHidalgo & #JoseMariaMorelos, the 2 rebel clerics who led the fight for #MexicanIndependence from Spain. Images from 2010 @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social exhibit. More here tinyurl.com/2kt4mxmu & here tinyurl.com/4jypvut5. @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753-1811). He was a middle-class criollo (a Spaniard born in the New World). In 1803 he became head of the parish of Dolores in the present central state of Guanajuato. His intellectual and political curiosity led him to become involved in the tertulias, or literary societies familiar with Enlightenment ideas in early 19th century Mexico, which were to become precursors to the fight for independence. At one of those gatherings a conspiracy to rebel in December of 1810 was planned, but it had to be carried out on September 16, 1810 after the plot was uncovered. Hidalgo’s fight for independence was short-lived. He fell in a royalist ambush and was defrocked, tried, and executed in the Northern city of Chihuahua in July of 1811. As an early martyr of Mexico’s fight for independence he is considered Padre de la Patria or Father of the Nation and is depicted as a heroic figure in this 1910 Independence Centennial music score. José María Morelos y Pavón (1765-1815). He was born into a poor family and most likely had Indian and African blood on his mother's side. He was a student of Hidalgo and joined rebel forces shortly after the Grito de Dolores and assumed the insurgent leadership after the execution of Hidalgo. In 1813 Morelos convened the Chilpancingo National Assembly where he proclaimed Mexico’s independent from Spain. He was captured in November of 1815 and executed a month later after facing a military court and an Inquisition trial. He is depicted here in the 1943 movie poster as the heroic Rayo del sur or Southern Thunderbolt. Photo: El Rayo del Sur. [Movie poster, 1943]. Stanford Manuscript Collection: M0945, Box 6
September 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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De los archivos de @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social: algunas imágenes sobre el #11deSeptiembre a #52AñosdelGolpe contra #SalvadorAllende en Chile./ Images from the Fernando Alegria archives: #Chile #1973coup against #SalvadorAllende. See details for each photo.
Cover from the Argentine labor magazine Ya es tiempo de pueblo! “Chile: the Start of the War” (September 13th). The image with the American flag clearly accuses the United States as a co-conspirator. Declassified government documents show the active role of the Nixon administration in overthrowing the Allende government. Circulating Collection. AP63. Y2 V.1 JUN.29,1973/JAN.24,1974 *Aerial newspaper photo of people celebrating on the streets of Santiago on election night. The competing daily La Nacion included the figures for each candidate. The conservative El Mercurio’s headline “Allende: relative majority” showed voting figures for each candidate, with Allende’s noted as “votes against.” Fernando Alegria Papers M0651.Series 16. Recortes / Clippings. Flat Box 98 *Mexico’s government welcomed over 1,000 political Chilean exiles (and later those of other South American dictatorships). It’s no surprise that in 1978 the Revista de la Universidad de Mexico, a leading cultural publication, featured a special dossier on Chile. Among the contributors were Fernando Alegria (already teaching at Stanford) and a young playwright (Ariel Dorfman) that would later teach at Duke University. Both had been cultural advisors in Allende’s government. Circulating Collection 056.72 .U55 Solidarity event in Oregon, speakers include Fernando Alegria, Chile's last cultural attaché in Washington during the #SalvadorAllende govt as well as Hortensia Allende, widow of the deposed democratically elected president.
September 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Buenos Aires province holds elections Sun Sept 7 tinyurl.com/yc854yy6. As Argentina's capital & 40% of country's population, electoral results could foreshadow Oct 26 ntl legislative midterms. Check some ebooks tinyurl.com/5zue6c5e from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. @adiazcayeros.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Camino al despacho ester soleado y prometedor 1er martes de Sept. / All quiet on the @Stanford front at 8am on this warm September morning.
September 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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#Bolivia held #presidentialelections this weekend. For more on the country's sociopolitical conditions of the last 20 years check out some ebooks tinyurl.com/2p9une7w from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I arrived in Santa Barbara around midnight July 28/1989. Room I had arranged to rent 3 weeks earlier wasn't ready. Conejo, landlord's dog, was sleeping where I should be! It was a cool evening & I ended up digging through my suitcase for something to keep me warm. But it was the beach & a real job.
July 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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#OTD in 1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas, in Peru 🇵🇪. Check out some📚ebooks tinyurl.com/23jp44bu from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social for more. See also BBC text tinyurl.com/wnseac8r. @spantoja.bsky.social @dawngarcia.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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From the last 10 years @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social: 4800+ ebooks in Spanish for you research tinyurl.com/ynfz7sz6. Check it Out! @dawngarcia.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social @adiazcayeros.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Stanford’s #GreenLibrary📚opened its doors July 14, 1919. More on the place where I’ve worked since 1996 tinyurl.com/3zfw7yk6. @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social @adiazcayeros.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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June is #LGBTQHistoryMonth. See ebooks from Spain now tinyurl.com/4sk9bj43 available from
@stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. See sample titles, access via tinyurl.com/2mrfrfhh & check by publisher #EditorialEgales. Check it Out!🌈📚
June 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Librarian’ work after a #NoKings demonstration by Dolores Park in #SanFrancisco: collect political ephemera. #NokingsinAmerica, #NoKingsDay. / Hay que documentar la historia nuestra de cada día después de una manifestación antinaranja frente al parque de casa.
June 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Yesterday I encountered this large (3-4 blocks) peaceful demonstration in the #MissionDistrict of #SanFrancisco. Reminded me that our country has a long history community resistance, check ebooks from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social for more tinyurl.com/2jm2fzkk.
June 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Spain's noted poet & dramatist #FedericoGarciaLorca was born #OTD in 1898 tinyurl.com/2p8y5yhp. Check some ebooks tinyurl.com/5c3p7tcy from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social to learn more about him. 2nd image: #RainbowHonorWalk 🌈in San Francisco🌉 tinyurl.com/hskmcykj in the #CastroDistrict.
June 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Pleasant surprise this morning: several #handmade #CubanBooks from #EdicionesVigía just arrived. / Vaya chulada de #LibrosArtesanales cubanos que nos han llegado hoy para "la Green" de @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social for a larger collection of 400+ pieces tinyurl.com/5458rpxn of #Libroshechoamano.
June 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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June is #GLBTQHistoryMonth. See ebooks from Spain's #EditorialEgales now tinyurl.com/4sk9bj43 available from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. Here are few sample titles. Check it out. #LibrosLGBTQ @larrylafountain.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Databases tinyurl.com/3sney563 w/ lots of full text for your research on #LatinAmerica: migration, human rights, indigenous groups, climate change, gender issues...all @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social Check it out!
May 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Un placer recibir gente de Otros Saberes-Latin American Studies Association en "la Green" de #Stanford para ver libros de artista, fotos, y grabados sobre #Migración, #ViolenciaDeGénero, #DesplazamientoForzado y #PersonasDesaparecidas. @dawngarcia.bsky.social @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social ‬
May 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM