Digital collection of over 1,200 books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera covering the history of the Caribbean Islands. Can be searched or browsed by subject, genre, place of publication, language, etc.
Digitized collection from the American Antiquarian Society covering over 140 titles from 22 islands -- languages evenly spread among English, Spanish, and French.
A searchable annotated bibliography of articles, books and reports on Latin America. Produced by the Library of Congress.
Digest covering a broad range of Latin American news and media. Topics include economy & business, politics, Latin America & US, and travel & tourism.
Collection of digitized Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Features titles from across South and Central America as well as parts of the Caribbean and Africa. Most of the content is in Spanish, with some in Portuguese or English.
In depth articles on major topics and trends relating to the study of Latin American history. Written (and periodically updated) by scholars and peer-reviewed.
A portal providing access to digital resources from various Latin American and Iberian national libraries. Collections include maps, prints, drawings, and photographs, manuscripts, sound recordings, and incunabula amongst others.
Executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil’s national government between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available to the end of the first Republic in 1930.
Index of over 2,500 scholarly social sciences, humanities, and sciences journals in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.
Original correspondence of the colonial governments in mainland North American and the Caribbean with the British government. From the National Archives in London.
Information on the lives of Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans who are historically significant. Covers the entire Caribbean, and the Afro-descended populations throughout Latin America, including people who spoke and wrote Creole, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Pamphlets, flyers, posters, postcards, and other ephemera created by social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, public policy think tanks, and other types of organizations to publicize their views, positions, agendas, policies, events, and activities. The majority of materials are from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Venezuela, but almost every country in Latin America and the Caribbean is represented.
Collection of digitized documents, books, newspapers, and other materials relating to Caribbean culture and history.
Collections of declassified documents covering US policy decisions around nuclear escalation and non-proliferation, the space race and military uses of space, and the Cuban missile crisis. Also includes collections of documents covering US foreign policy in relation to: Argentina; China; Colombia; Cuba; Mexico; South Africa; and North and South Korea.
"Collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820."
Coverage: 1534 - 1850
Online collection of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. It has been indexed to allow for unique browsing and searching (e.g. by type of flora or fauna, encounters between groups of peoples, specific events or places, etc.).
Digitized archive of El Caribe, one of the Dominican Republic's main daily newspapers, covering events in the DR and across the Caribbean region. In Spanish.
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada. Subjects include diplomatic history, economics, international relations, and political science.
Skillman Library's list of select, online resources related to Latin American history.
Coverage: 1907-1984
Index of major journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Over 1,000 titles providing local, regional, and state-wide coverage of Mexico's revolutionary and independence periods. Almost all titles are in Spanish, with a handful of coverage in English or other languages.
Open Access collection of over 1,000 alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals from the 1960s-80s focused on the following series: Feminism; LGBTQ; Ethnicity and Race; Campus/community; GI Press; Small literary magazines; Right-wing press.
Database of links to open access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean. Maintained by SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials).
Database of literary and cultural journals published in the Hispanophone Caribbean and Latin America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Note that access to some titles is limited, but Lafayette users have access to all restricted titles identified as being available from the Center for Research Libraries or CRL.
This gateway site is no longer updated but it is still a comprehensive and useful resource for Latin American studies. Information is organized by subject or by country.
A cooperative initiative by member research libraries to provide open access collections for the learning and scholarship of Latin America studies.
Gateway to online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean.
Articles on "the significant ways in which the Latino and Latina populations have shaped the political, legal, and social institutions of the United States."
Research, opinion polls (national and global), news coverage, and demographic studies focusing on the U.S. Hispanic population and immigration.
Database of political information, documents, and links on Western Hemisphere politics, focusing on Latin America. From the Center for Latin American Studies (Georgetown Univ.) and the Organization of American States.
Part of the American Memory project from the Library of Congress, this site focuses on writings about the early history of Puerto Rico.
Major collection of primary source material covering the global history of the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery movements. Presented in 4 collections: Debates over Slavery and Abolition; Slave Trade in the Atlantic World; The Institution of Slavery; and Age of Emancipation.
Vast collection of documents relating to the global slave trade and subsequent abolition efforts and social justice movements. Documents include manuscripts, court records, maps, lists of slaves and ships' logs, books, statistics, and many types of images.