Databases
- See Digital Resource Gateways, below, for more freely available material.
- See also the Security Studies guide.
- See also the full Primary Sources guide.
- See also the Humanities Librarian's Spanish and Latin American Literature, Language, and Culture Guide.
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Caribbean History and Culture Imprints from the LCP, 1535-1920 This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1535-1920
This resource covers the diverse history of the Caribbean Islands over nearly 400 years. Includes books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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El Caribe Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1956-present
El Caribe is a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Santo Domingo and is one of the Dominican Republic's most influential and longest-running newspapers. Except for brief interruptions in publication for a month in 1962 and seven months in 1965, El Caribe has been a constant chronicle of national and international news, both for the Dominican Republic and the broader Caribbean region.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Cold War: Global Perspectives on East-West Tensions, 1945-1991 This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1945-1991
International primary source documents on the Cold War. Resources include news broadcasts, reports, and publications.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean EphemeraThe Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera is a steadily growing repository containing a previously unavailable subset of Princeton’s Latin American Ephemera Collection as well as newly acquired materials being digitized and added on an ongoing basis.
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Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1954-1999
The DNSA collection is the most comprehensive collection available of significant declassified U.S. government documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. University of Oklahoma Libraries provides access to four sub-collections relating to Latin American policy and human rights:
- El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984
- El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994
- Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978-1990
- Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the U.S., 1954-1999
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Early Americas Digital ArchiveThe Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
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Early Encounters in North America This link opens in a new window
Provides access to materials that cover early encounters between the Indigenous People of North America and the rest of the world from 1534 to 1850. This collection focuses on present-day Canada and the United States with limited coverage of Mexico. Resources include letters, diaries, memoirs, and illustrations. The collection provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, enslaved peoples, missionaries, soldiers, Indigenous Peoples, and officials. Highlights include John James Audubon's Birds of America and George Catlin's early illustrations capturing the traditions and customs of various North American tribes.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Ethnic NewsWatch Complete This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1959-present
Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Subject coverage includes culture, religion, independent press, and ethnic studies. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1941-1996
Provides access to the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. This resource includes translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and commentary.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Foreign Relations of the United States (1861-1988; HeinOnline)Official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies. Also available from the Department of State here.
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Freedom of Information Archive / Declassification Engine (Columbia University and the History Lab)Open access database for searching declassified documents. See this page for more information on collections included.
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HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Shared digital repository of millions of library books and journals converted from print resources owned by research institutions around the world. HathiTrust Digital Library does not permit downloading or viewing the full text of books that are still under copyright.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de MéxicoIn Spanish. Digital National Newspaper Archives of Mexico.
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Hispanic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1808-1908
Provides access to more than 350 Spanish-language and bilingual Spanish-English newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. These newspapers offer unabridged voices, ranging from intellectuals and literary notables to politicians, union organizers, and grassroots figures. Key titles include El Clamor Publico (Los Angeles), El Nuevo Mexicano (Santa Fe), Latin Times (Chicago), and El Misisipi (New Orleans).
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Hispanic Life in America Series 3: 2010-Today This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 2010-present
Combining deep historical content with current sources, Hispanic Life in America provides primary source documents related to Hispanic American life. This database is continually updated to reflect the latest news in government, business, and arts - from U.S. immigration policies and the response at the U.S. southern border, to the Dreamers and the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), as well as the ongoing influence of Hispanic American businesses, politicians, musicians, athletes, and others.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Historical Newspapers via ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Searches the full text of twelve historical newspapers: Atlanta Daily World, The Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian and The Observer, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, The New York Times, Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Immigrations, Migrations and Refugees: Global Perspectives, 1941-1996 This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1941-1996
Digital archive covering all aspects of 20th-century human migration, including first-hand reports and global analysis.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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El Imparcial Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1918-1946
El Imparcial was a conservative, pro-independence tabloid published in San Juan, Puerto Rico in the early 20th century. During that time, it was the most widely read newspaper in Puerto Rico, providing coverage on such historical events as the Cuban Revolution and political corruption in Puerto Rico in the 1940s.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1807-1972
The Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers collection traces the evolution of Mexico during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Comprised of over 1,000 titles from Mexico's pre-independence, independence, and revolutionary periods, this collection provides documentation on topics such as partisan politics, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news. Material is sourced from the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas in Austin, the preeminent Latin American library in the United States.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Joint Publications Research Service This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1957-1995
Provides access to English translations of foreign language materials from regions throughout the world. Includes monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts. This database is ideal for the study of history of science, global economics, agriculture, health, political culture, international relations, and military affairs.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Latin American and Iberian PostersThis large collection contains posters from Cuba, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, and Spain among a few. Over 5,000 of these posters are available here. They address themes such as elections, imperialism, solidarity, human rights, and revolution.
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Latin American Government Documents ArchiveA list, ordered by country, of links to the top level archived version of all ministry and presidency Web sites captured as part of the LAGDA project.
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Latin American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1800-1924
Included in the World Newspaper Archive, this collection provides access to more than 35 nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American newspapers. Features titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Latin American Pamphlet Digital CollectionScarce and unique pamphlets, primarily from Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico, published during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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LLILAS Benson Digital CollectionsA broad array of digital projects and initiatives, University of Texas.
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Local Catalog (OU)The library's catalog will list books that reproduce primary source material. For example, this search looks for subject terms that are frequently used for primary sources. Just add your country or region to the search to see what might be available.
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National Security Archive (George Washington University)Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive includes a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents.
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Noticias Gráficas Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1943-1949
Noticias Graficas was a groundbreaking Argentine newspaper published in Buenos Aires during the early 20th century, known for its double-page illustrated center spread and high-quality journalism. This prominent newspaper was shut down during the dictatorship of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Political Database of the AmericasOffers centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region.
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ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1789-present
Index of legislative information, including congressional publications from 1789 to the present, legislative histories for public laws dating back to 1970, testimony from congressional hearings, bill histories, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, Congressional Research Service reports, information about congressional members and committees, and executive documents (1789-1931). Some full text is available.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1500-1926
Sabin Americana contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Resources include books, pamphlets, serials, and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, and military actions.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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SUR This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1931-1992
SUR is one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the twentieth century. This resource featured the writings of leading figures in literature, philosophy, history, and the arts from Latin America, North America, and Western Europe. Contributors include Le Corbusier, Lacan, Sartre, Borges, Silvina Ocampo, and Bioy Casares. This collection features images of the complete magazine, including covers, photographs, advertisements, a comprehensive electronic index of 6,300 entries as well as an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo.
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U.S. Declassified Documents This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide range of previously classified federal records from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. These documents cover significant foreign policy development and international crisis, as well as domestic issues. Materials include policy papers, cabinet meeting minutes, briefing materials, military reports, diplomatic correspondence, CIA and FBI intelligence memoranda, and more.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Digital Resource Gateways
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Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano (BDPI)Association of National Libraries of Ibero-America. A portal that allows access from a single point of consultation to the digital resources of all participating libraries.
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Primary Sources (Berkeley)Guide to primary sources for Latin America. Some sources listed are available only to Berkeley students.
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Primary Sources (Christopher Newport University)Guide to primary sources for Latin America. Some sources listed are available only to Christopher Newport students.
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SALALM Digital ResourcesSeminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials' database of listings that provide links to open access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean.