LIBRARY GUIDE TO HST 3660 - History of Argentina, Brazil and Chile

Use these resources to find books on your topics:

The Cambridge History of Latin America (online) and other books in the  Cambridge Histories series

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (print, Ref.F 1406 .E53 2008)

Handbook of Latin American Studies
bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.
 

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, the history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 1700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages since 1955. How to export to RefWorks

JSTOR
Full-text of articles from numerous history journals and journals in Latin American studies

Project MUSE
Also includes journals in Latin American history.

Latin American Open Archives Portal: provides access to working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials in the social sciences produced in Latin America.

LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center): guide to Latin American resources online

• Library OneSearch
  Search Kresge Library's physical and digital collections
• MelCat
  A statewide catalog of many of Michigan's libraries. It allows you to request books at another library be sent to Kresge Library for you.
• WorldCat
  A catalog of materials owned by libraries worldwide. How to export to RefWorks

Interlibrary Loan
You may request materials we don't have and we'll borrow them from another library for you.

Newspapers

• New York Times Historical
• Chicago Defender (Proquest Historical Newspapers)
  Covers several editions of the Chicago Defender newspaper from 1909-1975.

Foreign relations

• guide to US foreign policy documents
• Wilson Center Digital Archive (foreign relations)
• Oral Histories of US Diplomats

Politics

• Archive of Political Parties and Elections in Latin America: archive of political parties' websites
• Latin American government documents: archived websites with documents, audio and video recordings of Latin American leaders
• Latin American pamphlet digital collection: 19th century Latin American pamplets
• History of the Left in Latin America: full text of La Cultura en México and Los Libros newspapers
• Ibero-American Electronic Text series: documents covering the entire history of Latin America

Other topics

• Latin American Travelogues: travel accounts from the 16th-19th centuries
• Montevideo-Oxford Latin American Economic History Database: economic statistics of 20th-century Latin America
• Latin American art: Images of Latin American art works from the University of Essex
• World Digital Library, Latin America: images, texts and maps
• Latin America and the Caribbean (SMU Central University)
• Latin American Posters (Princeton U)

General sources with Latin American content

• Latin American and Caribbean Digital Primary Sources: list of online primary sources (texts and images)  on Latin American and Caribbean history
• National Archives (limit search to "archival materials online")
• Digital Public Library of America: portal to major digital collections

Chile

• The Guardian reports on 1973 coup
• Historical images of Chile
• Chile Declassification Project (State Department)
• Chile Documentation Project (National Security Archive)
• Declassified documents (Internet Archive)

Argentina

• The papers of Marshall Meyer (Jews in 1970s-80s)
• Vanished Gallery
• Argentine Declassification Project (Director of National Intelligence)
• Argentine Presidential Messages (LANIC)

Brazil

• Researching Brazil: compilation of resources
• Bahian History Project: 19th century history of a sugar plantation region
• Atlantic Slave Trade images
• US and Brazil
• State Department documents on Brazil, 1963-1980s
• Brazilian Government Documents (1830-1993)
• Guide for Brazilian studies (Emory University libraries)

• Latin American History Guide at KL
• Government documents for historians

• Locating Historical Newspapers Online
• Locating Primary Sources for a History Assignment