James Madison University
Libraries and Educational Technologies

Latin American History
(including Caribbean History)

Background Information | Journal Articles | Books & Videos

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Primary Sources | Statistics & Datasets

Background Information

	Blackwell Reference Online - History (Blackwell) A collection of full-text reference books in history. [more info] Campus/Remote
	Cambridge Histories Online (Cambridge University Press) Cambridge Histories Online provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Guide to Reference (ALA) A selective guide of reference sources, organized by academic discipline... [more info] Campus/Remote
	History Resource Center: World (Gale) A comprehensive collection of reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, and images, maps and charts... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection (Oxford University Press) Database of full-text scholarly reference books on all subjects... [more info] Campus/Remote

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Journal Articles

	Clase and Periodica (OCLC) Index of Latin American journals, books, and more... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) An index with abstracts to more than 2000 periodicals on world history from 1450 to the present ... [more info] Campus/Remote
	HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies) (Library of Congress) A multidisciplinary bibliography of materials on all aspects of Latin American studies ... [more info] Unrestricted
	JSTOR Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics... [more info] Campus/Remote
	WilsonWeb OmniFile (HW Wilson) An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences... [more info] Campus/Remote

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Books & Videos

	Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) An index with abstracts to more than 2000 periodicals on world history from 1450 to the present ... [more info] Campus/Remote
	HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies) (Library of Congress) A multidisciplinary bibliography of materials on all aspects of Latin American studies ... [more info] Unrestricted
	Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale) Full text of every book about the Americas published anywhere between 1500 and 1926... [more info] Campus/Remote
	WorldCat (OCLC) Catalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide ... [more info] Campus/Remote

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Primary Sources

	ARTstor Image database containing images of architecture, painting, sculpture... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Digital National Security Archive (Chadwyck-Healey) This database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945 ... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Empire Online (1492-1962) Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material... [more info] Campus/Remote
	LIFE Photo Archive Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. [more info] Internet
	Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (HW Wilson) Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale) Full text of every book about the Americas published anywhere between 1500 and 1926... [more info] Campus/Remote
	Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Contains records of nearly 35,000 trans-Atlantic slaving voyages made between 1514 and 1866... [more info]

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Statistics & Datasets

	Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Contains records of nearly 35,000 trans-Atlantic slaving voyages made between 1514 and 1866... [more info]

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This page last reviewed by P. Hardesty on 08/06/2008