Latin American Studies

Includes contemporary and historical documents depicting the nature, integrity and culture of Latin America. Documents are in multiple languages. Includes historical and contemporary maps.

1970 - present. Lists journal articles on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the U.S.

LADB is a news and information service on Latin America which produces three weekly electronic publications: NotiCen, NotiSur, and SourceMex. Includes over 28,000 articles from a variety of Latin American news sources and journals.

1690 - 1900. Full text of historical American newspapers from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Searchable via Readex's Archive of Americana interface. 

Includes thousands of historical articles and books of Hispanic literature, political commentary and culture as well as over 100 newspaper titles and books on Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries Written, indexed and searchable in Spanish and English.

1942 - 1964. Access to oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative where millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border to work in more than half of the states in America.

Full text of working papers, conference proceedings, policy briefs, economic indicators, and other resources in international affairs.

CLASE and PERIÓDICA index over 2,600 Latin American journals in social sciences, humanities, science, and technology, with over 300,000 citations in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. The database includes articles, essays, monographs, book reviews, reports, and interviews from journals in 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Provides access to scholarly journal articles, book chapters, theses and monographs published in Spain. Coverage includes Latin America and other world regions. Subjects covering science, technology, law, business, art, history, language and literature.

A collection of digitized pamphlets, flyers, leaflets, brochures, posters, and postcards originally created by social activists, government agencies, political parties, and other types of organizations in Latin American and Caribbean. Most are rare, hard-to-find primary sources unavailable elsewhere. Via Princeton University.

Grants access to the encyclopedic codex, the most reliable source on Mexica culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico. Completed in 1577 by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua elders, its parallel Nahuatl and Spanish texts, along with nearly 2,500 hand-painted images, have been digitized for searchable access.

Roughly 27,500 items, including manuscript drafts of published and unpublished works, research material, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, and more, of Colombian-born writer Gabriel García Márquez. Via the Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Available in English and Spanish.

Combines access to and cross-searches all Gale Primary Source holdings covering over 500 years of world history.  Also can be narrowed to specific combinations of archives.

1935-present. A bibliography of books, journal articles, proceedings in social sciences and humanities, edited by scholars selected by the Library of Congress (LOC).

1808 - 1980. A collection of Spanish-language and Spanish/English newspapers printed in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage begins in 1808 with the first Spanish-language newspaper printed in the U.S.

Grants open access to what will be over a thousand Mexican newspapers documenting Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929). Via the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).

A collection aiming to preserve ephemera materials worldwide .Currently contains UCLA’s collections with content from Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, and South Africa ranging from early 20th century newspapers to posters, postcards, cellphone videos, and more.

A collection of periodicals amassed by Austrian anarchist and historian Max Nettlau (1865-1944), held at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. It includes rare and unique titles from the formative anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist period (1890-1920) in Latin American labor history.

Access to over 55 Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th century in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Via Readex in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries.

Access to over 250 Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th century in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Venezuela. Via Readex in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries.

Brings together the voices of Latin American women from the 17th century to the present. Includes 120,000 pages of prose, poetry, drama, memoirs, letters and essays in the original languages. Authors are from Central and South America, as well as from Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

Covers the Carter Administration's creation of the White House Office of Hispanic Affairs in order to address issues of critical importance to the Latino community.  Major topics covered include bilingual education, police brutality, political unrest in Latin America, Haitian refugees, and immigration, Puerto Rican self-determination, and the U.S. Navy's use of Vieques Island. 

Includes more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States.

Access to a compendium of peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies and short encyclopedia entries via Oxford University Press. Subscribed content covers a wide range of subjects spanning the humanities and social sciences.

A collection of over 1,000 open access journals published in Latin America, Spain and Portugal with coverage spanning both the Humanities and Sciences.

1500-1926. Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains over 6 million pages from 29,000 works about the Americas published from 1500 to the early 1900s. Includes books, pamphlets, serials and other documents providing insight into exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, Native Americans, military actions and more.

A collection of open scholarly journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal covering science, medicine, the social sciences and humanities. Searchable by country of publication or subject area. Articles are primarily in Spanish, Portuguese, and English with full text.

Access to a repository of Mexican and Mexican American popular and vernacular recordings containing over 100,000 recordings. Via UCLA.