Handbook of Latin American Studies The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Source: LC HLAS website.
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 Archives the 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
- The Hispanic American Historical Review: the oldest journal for the study of Latin American history and culture in the United States
- The Journal of Latin American Studies: recent research in the field of Latin American studies in economics, geography, politics, international relations, sociology, social anthropology, economic history and cultural history
- The Latin American Research Review: the journal of the Latin American Studies Association
- Revista de Historia de América: journal of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History, contains articles in Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese
- The Americas: one of the main English-language journals of Latin American history
- Latin American Perspectives: an interdisciplinary journal on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents: search the tables of content of over 800 academic journals published in Latin America
Images
- ARTstor
ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. - 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)
- Archive of Political Parties and Elections in Latin America: archive of political parties' websites
- Latin American government documents: 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
- Latin American Travelogues: travel accounts from the 16th-19th centuries
- Montevideo-Oxford Latin American Economic History Database: economic statistics of 20th-century Latin America
- National Security Archive: an online archive of declassified U.S. documents
- Oral Histories of US Diplomats
- Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera
Selected books on Mexican history at KL Journals
Primary sources
- Historia Mexicana: published by El Colegio de México's Center of Historical Studies
- Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos: a bilingual, interdisciplinary journal
- Signos históricos
Primary sources
- Zapatistas!: documents of the new Mexican revolution (compilation of testimonies, communiqués, interviews, letters and essays by individual Zapatistas)
- Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States and the American Frontier (interactions Spain / America from 15th to early 19th centuries)
Selected books on Caribbean history at KL
Caribbean Area Periodicals at KL
Primary sources on Caribbean history
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Primary sources on Caribbean history
- Caribbean Histories Revealed (history of the British Caribbean - from the UK National Archives)
- Caribbean Map Collection (from 1564 to present, mostly colonial)
- Caribbean Views (18th-19th century documents of British Caribbean - from the British Library)
- Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
- Early Caribbean Digital Archive
- Digital Library of the Caribbean
- Castro Speech Database
- Cuban Imprints
- Cuban American Diplomacy (Avalon Project)
- Deena Stryker's Photographs of Cuba, 1963-1964
- Agrupación Abdala poster collection
- Cuban Posters
- Cuban National Library Digital Collection
- Cuban Heritage Collection (University of Miami)
Haiti
Selected books on Argentinian history at KL
Primary sources
Primary sources
- The papers of Marshall Meyer (Jews in 1970s-80s)
- Vanished Gallery
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)
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