A National Security Archive (http://www2.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/index.html) is a collection of digitized declassified documents obtained by Freedom of Information Act requests. Fascinating archive provides substantial insight to the US government’s role in Latin America. Includes documents dealing with the “Dirty War” period of Latin America, Che Guevara, the Bay of Pigs, Pinochet, Iran Contra, the 1954 coup in Guatemala, etc. ( George Washington University)
The War of 1898: The Spanish-American War (http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/) brings together materials about the Spanish-American War including maps, images, texts, chronologies, and biographies from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Spain, and the United States. (Library of Congress)
Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html) includes some of the earliest uses of film in a US war. Films of war between the United States and Spain over Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Some of the collection has been digitized and available through Quicktime. (Library of Congress)
Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier ( http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/eshome.html) is a digital library of materials looking at the histories of Spain and the United States from the 15 th-19 th centuries. Contains numerous digitized images, maps, and texts. Focus on “Early Exploration and Settlement,” but additional topics will be covered in the future. Website interface is in Spanish and English. (National Library of Spain, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular, Spain, and Library of Congress)
The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures (http://international.loc.gov/intldl/brhtml/brhome.html) is a digital project looking at the history of Brazil and US-Brazil relations from 18 th century to the present through digitized maps, images, and texts. Current focus is on “Historical Foundations” but website will expand coverage in the future. In English and Portuguese. (Library of Congress and the National Library of Brazil)
Castro Speech Database (http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro.html) provides copies of Fidel Castro’s speeches and interviews in English from 1959-1996. Also provides links to collections of his speeches in Spanish and other languages. Website and texts in English. (LANIC, University of Texas, Austin)
Cuban Heritage Collection (http://digital.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/index.html) is one of the premier collections of materials about Cuba. Includes digitized collections of photographs, letters, manuscripts, and memorabilia (http://digital.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/digitalcoll.shtml). Covers both Cubans and Cuban-Americans. ( University of Miami)
How Did Women Needleworkers Influence New Deal Labor Policies in Puerto Rico? (http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/wasm/wasmopen/prns/doclist.htm) is a collection of documents about the Mayaguez Needleworkers Strike of 1933. Provides insight to women, labor, US-Puerto Rican relations, the Depression and the New Deal, among other topics. ( Alexander Street Press)
Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/puertorico/) looks at the history of Puerto Rico through digitized documents including political pamphlets, maps, texts and images. The materials cover the period of 1831-1929. (Library of Congress)
Centro de Estudios Puertorriqeños Archives (http://www.centropr.org/lib-arc/archives.html) contains perhaps the strongest collections of materials on the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. As well as their collections of the personal papers of numerous notable community members, the archives also the records of the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. Great websites dedicated to specific topics like Identification and Documentation Program, FBI Files on Puerto Ricans, and Writers and Migration. ( Hunter College)
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record (http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php) is a searchable database of images concerning the life of enslaved Africans both in Africa and the Americas. Recently added a number of images from the British Caribbean – Jamaica in particular. (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and University of Virginia)
Caribbean Views (http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/caribbean/)contains over 1000 images dealing with the British presence in the Caribbean. Includes maps and texts. Focus on 18 th and 19 th centuries. (British Library)
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/collections/dloc/English/index.htm) is a still-evolving initiative, which brings together strong collections from the US and the Caribbean dealing with the Caribbean. It also provides funds and assistance to Caribbean libraries and archives to digitize portions of their collections. There is not much material available online currently, with the exception of materials from CARICOM, but this project will eventually grow to include significant collections of materials. In English, French, and Spanish. ( Florida International University)
Colonial Bank Correspondence, 1837-1885 (http://www.mainlib.uwi.tt/databases/colonialbank.cfm) contains the correspondence between bank managers at the Colonial Bank, a forerunner to Barclays Bank, in colonial Trinidad. Provides insight to economic and social conditions in Trinidad and other British Caribbean islands during this period, with a particular focus on the role of sugar in the Caribbean. ( University of West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago)
Sir William Young Diaries (http://www.mainlib.uwi.tt/digitalarchive/williamyoung/index.html) includes digitized selections (with transcriptions) from the personal papers of Sir William Young, the governor of Tobago from 1807-1815. Includes watercolors and maps he did of the island. (University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)
California Cultures (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/calcultures/) is a website of digitized images of the many ethnic groups that make up California’s rich history. Strongest on Mexican-Americans in California, although ostensibly covers all Latinos in California. Also includes some innovative lesson plans. ( University of California)
Maps of the Pimería: Early Cartography of the Southwest (http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/pimeriamaps/index.html) is a digitized collection of maps of the Pimería area of colonial Mexico, which covers what is now southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico. Maps are from the 16 th to 19 th centuries. ( University of Arizona)
Arizona-Sonora Documents Online (http://content.library.arizona.edu/collections/asdo/) is a digital collection of documents from the 19 th and early 20 th century dealing with Sonora, Mexico. Collection deals with ranching, mining, anti-Chinese movements, border crime, and government, among other topics. ( University of Arizona, Arizona Historical Society, Arizona State Library)
Musica de la frontera: Archive of Mexican-American Music (http://digital.library.ucla.edu/frontera/) is a collection of digitized music from Mexico, the US, and the borderlands. Includes some of the earliest recordings of corridos, canciones, boleros, rancheras, sones, norteños, and conjunto music. Users can listen to 50-second clips online. ( University of California, Los Angeles)
Mexico : From Empire to Revolution (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/mexico/html/index.html) is a digitized exhibition from the Getty concerning the depiction of Mexico and Mexican history through photography during the period of 1857-1923. (Getty Research Institute)
Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages (http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/pm/sample2/index.html) is a digitized collection of speeches made by Argentine and Mexican presidents. Mexican presidents are represented from the mid-20 th century. Argentine presidents are covered from the 20 th century, with limited coverage of the 19 th century. Website in English, texts in Spanish. (LANIC, University of Texas, Austin)
Legislación Mexicana (http://biblioweb.dgsca.unam.mx/dublanylozano/) provides a collection of the legislature in Mexico from 1687-1902. Digitized version of the first 11 volumes of the printed classic compiled by Basilio José Arrillaga. (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
¡Zapatistas! Documents of the New Mexican Revolution. New York: Autonomedia, 1994 (http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/Zapatistas/index.html) is the English translation of the full-text of every communiqué published by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) from December 31, 1994 to June 12, 1994. (LANIC, University of Texas, Austin)
Virtual Mesoamerican Archive (http://whp.uoregon.edu/VMA_Preview/index.lasso) is a searchable database of images, articles, websites, scholars, repositories, and teaching materials dealing with Mesoamerica. ( University of Oregon)
Encuesta Nacional de Opinión Pública (http://www.udp.cl/icso/encuestas/opinionpublica.htm) provides public opinion data collected in Chile from 2006 in PDF format. The poll seeks to understand Chileans’ opinion (at the national and regional level) of topics such as justice, family, public life, and politics. In Spanish. (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile)
Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages (http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/pm/sample2/index.html) is a digitized collection of speeches made by Argentine and Mexican presidents. Mexican presidents are represented from the mid-20 th century. Argentine presidents are covered from the 20 th century, with limited coverage of the 19 th century. Website in English, texts in Spanish. (LANIC, University of Texas, Austin)
Audiovideoteca de escritores de Buenos Aires (http://www.audiovideotecaba.gov.ar/areas/com_social/audiovideoteca/index_es.php) is an audiovisual library of clips from taped interviews with noted Argentine authors. Site is accessible in English and Spanish, however most of the videos are in Spanish. (Government of the City of Buenos Aires)
Protesta Humana (http://digital.library.ucla.edu/newspaper/) is a turn of the century anarchist newspaper from Argentina from 1897-1902. (UCLA)
Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project (http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=4&l2=18&l3=33) includes several collections of digitized materials issued by the Brazilian government from 1821-1993. Includes reports from the presidents, ministries, and provincial governments. (Center for Research Libraries)
The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures (http://international.loc.gov/intldl/brhtml/brhome.html) is a digital project looking at the history of Brazil and US-Brazil relations from 18 th century to the present through digitized maps, images, and texts. Current focus is on “Historical Foundations” but website will expand coverage in the future. In English and Portuguese. (Library of Congress and the National Library of Brazil)
Mission for Folklore Research (http://www.sescsp.org.br/sesc/hotsites/missao/eng/index.html ) is a website dedicated to Mário de Andrade’s trip in 1938 to record the folk music of Brazil. Includes description of the project, biographies, online audio files, and some digitized texts. Website in English and Portuguese. (Secretary of Culture, São Paulo)
Bolivia . Diario de lucha. (http://www.diariochebolivia.cubasi.cu/default.asp ) is a website that has transcribed Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s diaries dating to his campaign in Bolivia. Also includes diaries and brief biographies of his fellow guerrillas. In Spanish. (Centro de Estudios Che Guevara, Cuba)
Repositories of Primary Sources (http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/latam.html) provides links to archival collections in Latin America and the Caribbean. Some links may be broken, and many of these institutions may not frequently update their pages. ( University of Idaho)
Archive of Early American Images (http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/ea_hmpg.html#top_home) is a database of digitized images of the Americas from 1492-1825. Includes numerous early maps, engravings, woodcuts, and paintings. You must select a viewer to access the database. You may need to allow pop-ups in your browser. (John Carter Brown Library)
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection (http://vc.hul.harvard.edu:11080/vc/deliver/home?_collection=LAP) is a digitized collection of more than 5000 pamphlets from the 19 th and early 20 th century. Collection is strongest for Chile, Cuba, Bolivia, and Mexico. ( Harvard University)
Political Database of the Americas (http://pdba.georgetown.edu/) provides information on political systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. Provides links to political leaders, political parties, constitutions, elections, among other topics. Website interface is available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. ( Georgetown University)
Institute for Development Anthropology Collection at Binghamton University (http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/special/index.html) is the collection of the library materials of the now-defunct non-profit Institute for Development Anthropology. This collection includes both the Institute’s reports as well as quite a number of books, journals, newsletters and other materials related to development issues in Latin America, and to a lesser extent in the Caribbean. To locate materials in this collection using the library catalog infoLINK, simply search for “Institute for Development Anthropology” and any other keyword of interest. ( Binghamton University Libraries)
Latino Collections in New York State (http://iarchives.nysed.gov/RNYHC/r_subSearchResServlet?subName=Latinos) brings together links to digital collections, finding aids, information about existing documentation projects and other resources for the study of Latinos through primary sources. Great source for learning about existing special collections about Latinos that can be found in institutions across New York. ( New York State Archives)
Martha Kelehan - Area Studies Librarian for Africana, Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies
mkelehan@binghamton.edu 607-777-6355 (LN-2305)