Selected Latin American History Resources

Databases
(*Licensed by Rhodes College)

*360Search
Use 360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.  

• *America: History and Life
  Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals.  
• *ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
  Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA′s online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 416,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (571 currently indexed), more than 210,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 432,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century. Online Journals
• *Historical Abstracts
  Your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square -- over half a million entries in all. Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database, making this a historical periodical database unmatched in breadth.
• In the First Person
  A free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.
• *Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC)
  The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, teachers, and scholars with an authoritative and comprehensive source on the African American experience. At launch, the site will be comprised of five major encyclopedias and content from eighteen additional reference sources from Oxford University Press. The site includes a carefully selected editorial program of supplementary material. This includes approximately 100 primary source documents with commentaries, 1,000 images with an ongoing image research program, over 200 charts, tables and graphs, maps, timelines, and learning resources for students and teachers.  
• *Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition (1982 -)
  Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.  
• *WorldCat
  The world′s most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 42 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings information from the world′s libraries. Now includes the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.

Online Journals
(*Licensed by Rhodes College)

• *Blackwell-Synergy
  A collection of over 800 online journals from Blackwell Publishers.
• HistoryNet.com
• *JSTOR History Journals
• Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
  The Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents, or LAPTOC, is a database that provides open electronic access to the tables of contents of journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. LAPTOC consists of more than 800 academic and research journals published in 29 countries in the region, including bibliographic references to over 250,000 articles in the major languages of the region.
• *Online Journals for History (SerialsSolutions)
• *Oxford Journals Online
  A large collection of online full text journals from Oxford University Press.
• *Project Muse History Journals
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level.

Online Reference Sources
(*Licensed by Rhodes College)

• *The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
• *A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
• *A Dictionary of Political Biography
• *A Guide to Countries of the World
• Handbook of Latin American Studies ( Library of Congress)
  The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.
• Legislacion Mexicana 1687-1901
  La colección completa contiene 16,890 disposiciones numeradas, ordenadas cronológicamente, cuya cobertura va de 1687 a 1902.
• The Oxford Companion to American Military History
• *The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
• *The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean (Print REF: F1406 .C36 1992)
• *The Oxford Companion to Military History
• *The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, captures the experiences of women throughout history in a far-reaching, four-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no other text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, Women in World History is the definitive reference work in the field.
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
  Through its fluent global coverage, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World provides information about major world developments from 1750 to the present, with close attention to social, economic, cultural, and political topics. The Encyclopedia contains articles on world events; countries; organizations; regions; ethnic groups; and themes such as social history, demography, family life, politics, economics, religion, thought, education, science and technology, and culture. It offers coverage of standard geographic and ethnic units—such as Scandinavia, Korea, or the Gypsies—in the modern period. Significant institutions such as the International Red Cross and the League of Nations are treated at length. Comprehensive coverage enables readers to broaden their research outside a particular time or region and to explore topics within the context of modern world history.
• *Who′s Who in the Twentieth Century

Websites

• Asociación para el Fomento de los Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica
• AHILA (Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos)
• Central American Political History Database (Old Dominion U)
  Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) is pleased to present this historical database of the heads of state of the five Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, plus the heads of state of the defunct Central American Federation
• Columbus and the Age of Discovery (Millersville U)
  As its contribution to the 500th Anniversary of The Encounter of Two Worlds, Millersville University of Pennsylvania created and installed The Computerized Information Retrieval System (CIRS) on Columbus and the Age of Discovery in 1989.
• Conquistadors (PBS)
• Crucible of Empire: the Spanish American War (PBS) 
• Internet Sources for Latin America (New Mexico State U) .
• Latin American History Resources (LANIC)
• Latin American History Resources (U of Washington)
• Latin American Resources (Digital Librarian)  
• Sources and General Resources on Latin America (Oberlin)

Documents, Texts

• Castro Speech Database
• David Rumsey Map Collection
  The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 17,400 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials.
• Hispanic Reading Room (Library of Congress)
  The Hispanic Reading Room, as it is usually called, serves as the primary access point for research relating to those parts of the world encompassing the geographical areas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and Iberia; the indigenous cultures of those areas; and peoples throughout the world historically influenced by Luso-Hispanic heritage, including Latinos in the U.S., and peoples of Portuguese or Spanish heritage in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
• Historical Text Archive - Latin America
  Documents and Sources
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook - Latin America in the 19th Century | Colonial Latin America
• Latin American Pamphlet Digitized Collection (Harvard)
  These pamphlets are valuable primary resources for students and researchers working on Latin American history. They document the emergence of the Latin American colonies as independent states, and illuminate many aspects of their populations′ social and cultural life. Many pamphlets are devoted to boundary disputes, territorial expansion, the description of unexplored territories and the relationship between Church and State.
• National Security Archive Documents on Latin America (George Washington U)
• Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier (Library of Congress)
  Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier is a bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United States in America from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
• Presidential Messages (LANIC)
  The Presidential Messages database is a collection of digital full text presidential messages of Argentina and Mexico from the early 19th century to the present.
• Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (Library of Congress)
  This presentation features 68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role.
• World History Archives: History of Latin America | History of South America
• Zapatistas! Documents of the New Mexican Revolution (U Texas)