Latin American and Caribbean History

The Libraries’ at UM have an excellent collection of primary source materials covering all aspects of Latin American and Caribbean history. This guide is intended for graduate and undergraduate students and presents a variety of library and open web websites available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The collection is useful for conducting historical research and includes newspapers, literary sources, and digital libraries. The Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) is also quite unique and is distinctive both regionally and globally.

General Database Resources

• Dialnet
• Handbook of Latin America Studies
• Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
• H-LatAm
• Latin American Social Medicine Database: A Resource For Epidemiology
• Red AL y C (Network of Latin American, Caribbean, and Portuguese Journals)
• Thesaurus Linguae Latinae

The digital and archival libraries included here present unique resources such as newspapers, photographs, or literary materials that are great primary sources and can be used in your research papers.  

• Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña, Puerto Rico: Includes online access to primary source materials like postcards, photographs, newspapers, and caricatures, among others.
• Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC): A cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.
• Latin American Government Documents Archive: Includes an extensive of ministerial and presidential papers.  
• Archivo Digital de la Legislacion en el Peru: Digital copies of Peruvian constitutions dating from the C19th.
• Portal de Archivos Espanoles: Portal to millions of Spanish archival resources.
• Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages: Contains images of Mexican and Argentine presidential speeches.
• Latin American Open Archive Portal (LAOAP): Provides access to social sciences grey literature.
• Cuban Theater Digital Archive: A community repository for important Cuban theatrical materials and a forum of scholarly documents.
• Saint Domingue Etat Civil: Provides hundreds of documents from Haiti's colonial past.
• World Digital Library: A multilingual digital library with primary source materials form around the world.
• Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Historica, Spain: Includes thousands of historical newspapers from Spain.

• Art in America (Universes in Universes)
• Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Cuban Photograph Collections
• Cuban Postcard Collection
• Cuban Posters
• International Collections Database (Univ. of Washington)
• Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection
• LatinArt.com
• Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection
• Museo de Arte Virtual: Chile
• Museum of Latin American Art
• Museums in Latin America (LANIC)
• Organization of the Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL)
• UN-LANIC: University of Texas Latin American Network Information Center: Art Page
• The Virtual Diego Riviera Web Museum