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Latin American History
(including Caribbean History)


Background Information | Journal Articles | Books & Videos


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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