Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 - October 15. This month long celebration is not picked arbitrarily - September 15th marks the anniversary of independence for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, Mexico celebrates their independence on the 16th, and Chile celebrates theirs on the 18th. For a brief history on the proclamation of Hispanic Heritage Week/Month, and to view Executive and Legislative documents, see the Law Library of Congress' National Hispanic Heritage Month site.

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have also teamed up to provide us with this special collection celebrating Hispanic Americans (I thought "The Red that Colored the World," was especially neat).

So, if you find you have a little time, change gears for a bit and learn yourself something cool about the heritage of some 50 million fellow Americans.