LIBRARY GUIDE TO History - Latin America

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

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

Library OneSearch
Use the catalog to find books, videos, recordings, and goverment documents we have at the library.

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.

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

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains scholarly assessments of publications related to Latin America, from the 1930s to the present, including books, articles, maps, e-resources, and more.


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 and Project MUSE
Contain the full-text of articles from numerous history journals and journals in Latin American studies

Caribbean Search
Research database pertaining to the countries and people of the Caribbean. Covering all areas of Caribbean study, it includes hundreds of full-text journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books..  Thanks to MeL.

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

SciELO: journals from 14 Latin American countries

• 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)
   

Texts

• 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 Digital Initiatives: documents from Central American archives about human rights, race, ethnicity, and social exclusion
• 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

Latin American and Caribbean Digital Primary Sources: list of online primary sources (texts and images)  on Latin American and Caribbean history

Journals

• 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)
• Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press
• Mexican Presidential Messages
• Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution
• Mexico: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints

Primary sources on Caribbean history

• Caribbean Histories Revealed (history of the British Caribbean - from the UK National Archives)
• 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
   

Primary sources on Cuban history

• 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

• Haiti Digital Library
• Digital Library of the Caribbean
• Haitian Diaspora Oral Histories
• John Carter Brown Library Haiti Collection
• Mapping Haitian History

Primary sources

• The papers of Marshall Meyer (Jews in 1970s-80s)
• Vanished Gallery
• Argentine Presidential Messages

Primary Sources

• Researching Brazil: compilation of resources
• Bahian History Project
• Slavery Images
• US and Brazil
• State Department documents on Brazil, 1960s-80s

Primary sources

• The Guardian reports on 1973 coup
• Historical images of Chile
• Views of Chile (New York Public Library)
• Chile collections (Stanford University)
• Chile Solidarity Campaign

Mágenes y relatos de un viaje por Colombia
Travelogue of the Spanish intellectual José María Gutiérrez de Alba, written between 1870 and 1884 (in Spanish)

Colombia Digital Library
National digital collections

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