See Also:
American Indian Studies |
International |
The Southwest
- ABINIA (Asociación de Estados Iberoamericanos para el Desarrollo de las Bibliotecas Nacionales de Iberoamérica) - Members include:
- Archivio Nacional de Honduras - Tegucigalpa
- Biblioteca Nacional de Argentina
- Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia
- Funda&ccedi;ão Biblioteca Nacional - Brasil
- Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
- Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia
- Biblioteca Nacional Miguel Obregón Lizano - San José, Costa Rica
- Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba
- Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) - Dominican Republic
- Biblioteca Nacional de Ecuador - Quito
- Biblioteca Nacional de El Salvador - San Salvador
- Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala “Luis Cardoza y Aragón”
- Biblioteca Nacional de Honduras - Tegucigalpa
- Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico
- Biblioteca Nacional de Republica Dominicana - Santo Domingo
- Biblioteca Nacional Rubén Darío - Managua, Nicaragua
- Biblioteca Nacional de Panamá
- Biblioteca Nacional de Paraguay - Asuncion
- Biblioteca Nacional del Perú - Lima
- Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico - San Juan
- Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay - Montevideo
- Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela - Caracas
- Alma Guillermoprieto - Named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995, she writes about Latin America in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books
- ALTA - Asociación Latinoamericana de Transporte Aéreo - Latin American Air Transport Association.
- Altar Q and Copán - Hieroglyphic writing at Copán and other sites, as well as the importance of Altar Q. (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.)
- Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire: Les Cahiers ALHIM
- In French. "Devoted to the study of different themes of interest for Latin America: migrations, identities, education, religion, politics. Its historiographical contribution takes account of the memory-history binom. The first contributions of the journal deal with the theme of migrations. The journal is published by a research team « Amérique latine Histoire et Mémoire » from the Paris-VIII University." See record in Worldcat.
- Ancient Mexico - Subtitled "The Art, Culture and History of Ancient Mesoamerica."
- Andanzas al Web Latino - Molly Molloy, New Mexico State University Library
- Andean Botanical Information System - Provides "collection information from the floristic and systematic investigations of the phanerogams (flowering plants) of Andean South America. ABIS is developing a networked database of specimen-label data for selected groups of Andean plants, including the flora of coastal Peru and Chile, floristic inventories of montane forests of northern Peru, and monographic treatments with online images."
- Andes Expedition: Searching for Inca Secrets - National Geographic Society.
- Archaeological Research Institute - Located at Arizona State University in Tempe, ARI has resources on the Teotihuacan and Templo Mayor.
- Archives of the Indies (Archivo General de Indias) - Seville, Spain.
- Archivo General de la Nación - Mexico
- ArchNet - Hosted and maintained by the staff at the Archaeological Research Institute at Arizona State University and part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology, this server provides access to archaeological resources available on the Internet. Information is categorized by geographic region (including
Mesoamerica and
South America) and subject.
- Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress - "Mission is to build just and peaceful societies in Central America."
- Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Highlights more than 200 years of Latino art from across the United States. These sixty-six paintings, sculptures, and photographs represent many different cultural traditions developed by mostly Spanish-speaking artists who have settled in America.
- Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior Mexico's National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education
- Asociación Mexicana de Historia Económica - Has links to Archivos y bibliotecas.
- Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America - Promotes trade, investment, and business between the United States and Latin America.
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- Banco de la República, Colombia - Bogot´. The
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, the Library of the Colombian Central Bank, has a number of
Collections including
Artes,
Documental and
Instrumentos Musicales. There is an
catálogo en línea. The
biblioteca virtual has more than 130,000 pages of poems, books, articles and biographies about Colombia There is also a
Museo del Oro.
- Barnews - News. See also Spanish Newspapers & Media, ABYZ, and EFE News
- Bases de datos - Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (Spain). Search for books via ISBN
- Benson Latin American Collection - Specialized research library at the University of Texas at Austin "focusing on materials from and about Latin America, and on materials relating to Spanish-speaking peoples in the United States". Online material includes the Américo Paredes Archives, the Zapatista Documents Collection, the Chihuahuan Photographs by Larry G. Humphreys, Border Cultures: Conjunto Music, the Relaciones Geográficas Collection and the Eleuterio Escobar Collection.
- Biblioteca de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina
- Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela
- Borderlands Encyclopedia: A Digital Educational Resource on Contemporary United States-Mexico Border Issues - University of Texas at El Paso
- Braceros in Oregon Photographic Collection - Oregon State University. "In 1942 the United States government signed a labor agreement with Mexico that allowed its male citizens to work as farm laborers throughout the U.S. It was known as the Braceros Program. In Oregon more than 15,000 Mexican men worked on farms in all parts of the state from 1942 through 1947."
- BRASS/El Pilar Program - Belize River Archaeological Settlement Survey (BRASS); Anabel Ford
- British Library Hispanic Section
- California Mission Studies Association - "For the Study and Preservation of the California Missions, Presidios, Pueblos, and Ranchos and Their Native American, Hispanic, and Early American Past."
- La Cámara Costarricense del Libro (CCL) - There is a list of members. See also Cámara Colombiana del Libro and Cámara Ecuatoriana del Libro.
- Carocol Archaeological Project - Largest Maya archaeological site in Belize
- CARE - International relief agency has virtual field trips to Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti and Honduras.
- Carlos Aguirre - Assistant Professor of Latin American History, University of Oregon, his homepage provides a number of links to Latin American resouces.
- Casas Grandes and the Ceramic Art of the Ancient Southwest - Published by the Art Institute of Chicago in association with Yale University Press for the exhibition at the Art Institue of Chicago from April 22 to August 13, 2006. This is a beautiful book with 141 color photographs of pre-Columbian pottery, primarily from private collections. It's $28.35 at Amazon.com (the list price is $45.00). See UNESCO's World Heritage List - Archeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes.
- Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month - National Park Service site features "various publications, properties listed in the National Register, and National Parks that deal directly with the ingenuity, creativity, and cultural and political experiences of Hispanic Americans."
- Center for Latin American Studies - University of California, Berkeley
- Center for Latin American Studies - Georgetown University
- Center for Research Libraries - "CRL is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery." Among their Latin American collections is the Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
- Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents | Centro para el Estudio de Libros Infantiles y Juveniles en Español - California State University, San Marcos.
- Centro Cultural Perú Virtual
- Charlotte and Maximilian Collection - "The Carlota of Mexico collection includes letters to European heads of state and other luminaries, written during a brief period of French colonialism in Mexico, 1864-65. The collection also features an album of photographs of Carlota's husband, Maximilian of Austria, and his cabinet." (Rice University Electronic Text Center.)
- Chicana/Latina Electronic Network (CLNet) - Digital library on Latinas/os in the U.S.
- Chicana and Chicano Space - Thematic, inquiry-based art education resource has an Artwork Index with images and descriptive text for 25 works of art.
- Ciencias Sociales en América Latina y el Caribe - "20 Libros en texto completo, 226 Autores de la región, 300 Artículos."
- Ciudad Futura - Spanish-language entertainment site
- CNN en Español
- Código Brasiliense at the John Carter Brown Library - First government documents officially printed in Brazil in 1808. There is an General Index.
- Coffee and Biodiversity Conservation in El Salvador - Natural History Museum, London.
- Colección Virtual de Patrimonio Artístico y Arquitectónico Chileno y LatinoAmericano - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Colegio de Bibliotecarios de Chile
- Collaborative Historiography: A Comparative Literary History of Latin America - Occasional Paper No. 35, American Council of Learned Societies
- Colección Virtual de Patrimonio Artístico y Arquitectónico Chileno y LatinoAmericano - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
- College & Research Library News - A publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries, they offer monthly columns on Internet Resources, one of which is Latin America on the Internet: A bibliography, C&RL News, December 2003, Vol. 64, No. 11.
- Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL - Available in English.
- Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)
- Cuban Heritage Collection - University of Miami Libraries.
- Cuban Photograph Collection - "Over 5,000 photographs which span a wide range of historical topics related to Cuba and the Cuban Diaspora." (University of Miami Libraries.) Some examples:
- El Cristo, Santiago - 1925?
- George Fowler residence in Havana, Cuba - 1940s
- High school of Havana, Cuba - 1947 (Instituto Provincial Havana)
- Fidel Castro in Sierra Maestra - 1950s
- Ernesto, Che, Guevara with a group of revolutionaries - 1950s? "Cmdte. Ernesto Guevara, no. 23-2, Pacto del Pedrero. Recibimiento al Che y a la Columna Ciro Redondo por el Directorio Revolucionario, en Dos Arroyos, Campamento General del Directorio Revolucionario. En cuclillas, de izquierda a derecha, los Cmdtes. José Moleón y Raúl Nieves. De pie de izquierda a derecha, el Capt. Jorge Martín y los Cmdtes. Humberto Castelló, Faure Comón, René Rodríguez, Rolando Cubela, Ernesto Che Guevara y Ramiro Valdés. Guevara actividades guerrilleras."
- José Antonio Echeverría and Fructuoso Rodríguez - 1950s
- Students of the School of Library Sciences of the University of Havana, Cuba - 1950-51
- Cuban president Fulgencio Batista with Alberto Salas Amaro - 10 March 1952
- Camilo Cienfuegos holding his rifle - 1959
- Attack to Moncada Barracks - 1959
- Fidel Castro and Manuel Urrutia - 1959. "Manuel Urrutia, front left, and Fidel Castro, front right, with a group of supporters at the beginning of the triumph of the revolution. Manuel Urrutia was the first president of the Revolutionary government, he resigned in July 1959."
- Ernesto, Che, Guevara smoking a cigar - 1950s-1960s
- Ernesto, Che, Guevara - "Photograph of Ernesto Guevara speaking into a handheld microphone with people standing behind him." 1960s
- Ernesto, Che, Guevara in the Soviet Union - 1960
- View of Palacio Aldama in Havana, Cuba - 22 November 1966
- Houses and a street in Trinidad, Cuba - 1993
- Palm trees and hills in the Pinar del Río Province, Cuba - 1993
- Colonial house in Matanzas, Cuba
- Julio Blanco Herrera's house in Havana, Cuba
- Náutico Club in Havana, Cuba
- Singer Roland Gerbeau at the Fusté Discotheque in Havana, Cuba
- Del Valle palace in Cienfuegos, Cuba
- Brunet Palace, Trinidad, Cuba
- Our Lady of Carmen Church in Santa Clara, Cuba
- Rural area in the Oriente Province, Cuba
- Paris restaurant in Havana, Cuba
- La Bodeguita del Medio Restaurant - Havana, Cuba
- Race car driver Marcelino Amador - "Race car driver Marcelino Amador, wearing a suit and tie, with his daughter."
- Cuban Historical and Literary Manuscript Collection - "Original manuscripts from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Acquired as individual pieces or in small groups, this collection includes manuscript books, slavery sales and property documents, wills, and correspondence." (University of Miami Libraries.)
- The Cultures and History of America - Exhibition at the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress.
- David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies - Harvard University. Offers abstracts of Working Papers on Latin America Series and information on Country and Regional Programs.
- Descarga Online! - "Source for hard to find tropical Latin compact discs, videos, books, instructional material and percussion instruments."
- Directorio de consultores, recursos, y sitios de Internet relacionados con bibliotecas mexicanas - Bilingual directory to Mexican libraries and librarianship compiled by librarian William S. Abrams. This PDF document has 146 pages with a hyperlinked index and nearly 1,400 links.
- Directory of Development Organizations - Lists 29,500 contacts of organizations ("international organizations, governments, private sector institutions, development agencies, universities, research and training institutes, NGOs/PDOs, grantmakers, banks, microfinance institutions and development consulting firms").
- Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) - "Collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820... Published and supported by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland."
- elaleph.com - Libros electrónicos
- Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana - 58 digitized volumes
- Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología - Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. See also El Faro. Servicio de Navegación Bibliotecario which has links to Archivos Nacionales -América Latina y El Caribe.
- Études caribéennes - Éditée par l'Université des Antilles et de la Guyane. "The review offers three annual issues organized around a central theme folder. The texts published in French, English, Spanish, are evaluated by an international scientific committee."
- Expeditions: 150 Years of Smithsonian Research in Latin America - Multimedia online exhibition presents nearly one hundred artifacts, photographs, original documents and rare books originally exhibited at the Inter-American Development Bank’s Cultural Center Gallery.
- Ex-Portal - CERA - Cámara de Exportadores de la República Argentina (Argentine Chamber of Exporters).
- Foreign Relations, 1964-1968: Dominican Republic; Cuba; Haiti; Guyana - Department of State Publication 11173, United States Government Printing Office, released April 15, 2005. "Second volume in the 1964–1968 sub-series covering the foreign policy of the Lyndon Johnson Administration towards Latin America. The first, volume XXXI, South and Central America; Mexico, was released in September 2004. Together, these two volumes contain 989 documents and over 2,000 pages of key documentation of the Johnson White House, the National Security Council Staff, the Department of State, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Department of Defense...The Johnson Administration’s primary focus was on the Dominican Republic, which, after the fall of the Trujillo dictatorship, had been marked by political instability and crisis." (See Volumes Online for other Department of State publications documenting foreign relations during the Nixon-Ford, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower and Truman administations.)
- Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI) - Highlights include a collection of online Books and the Bibliografía Mesoamericana.
- Fresh Air - National Public Radio show hosted by Terry Gross of WHYY of Philadelphia has an archive. Interviews include:
- Patrick Symmes (2/15/00) - Author of Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
- Mercedes Doretti (2/8/00) - Anthropologist and co-founder of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team
- Peter Kornbluh (3/2/00) - Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive which recently declassified thousands of pages of documents related to Chile.
- Fundação Biblioteca Nacional - National Library of Brazil.
- Visita Virtual
- Biblioteca Nacional Digital do Brasil - With projetos (projects)
- Catalogos
Their division of Música has a section on Brazilian composers with biographies and audio files in MIDI format. For example, the Virtual Archives has biographies and MIDI files for Alberto Nepomuceno (1864-1920), also known as Nepo, as well as musical scores. Search also for
Carlos Gomes and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
- Fundación Histórica Tavera - Organization, located in Madrid, dedicated to promoting Latin American studies and disseminating digital information about the Americas.
- Fundación Pablo Neruda - Universidad de Chile
- Guaman Poma - El Primer Nueva Corónica Y Buen Gobierno - Text of the 1615 narrative by a native Andean, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, digitized by the Royal Library of Denmark.
- Guide to Reference Sources for Latin American Studies - Pamela M. Graham, Latin American & Iberian Studies Librarian, Columbia University.
- H-LatAm - International forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History. With information on Latin American archives.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies Online (HLAS Online) - Library of Congress provides a searchable bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. A list of subject headings is provided. Try searching for the subject electronic resources.
See the Help page and the FAQ page for more information.
- Handbook of Texas Online - "Multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories." A joint project of the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.
- Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822 - 1995 - Library of Congress
- Hispanic and Portuguese Collections: an illustrated guide - Library of Congress
- Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)
- Hispanic Genealogy - Al Sosa
- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: the Juan B. Rael Collection - Library of Congress ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado.
- History of the Conquest of Mexico - Full-text of the 1843 book by William Hickling Prescott. (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.)
- Human Development Reports - United Nations Development Programme issues global, regional and national reports with statistics on a wide variety of quality of life issues: life expectancy, adult literacy, underweight children, health expenditure, low birth-weight, sanitation facilities, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, cigarette consumption, telephone mainlines, Carbon dioxide emissions etc.
- Ibero-American Electronic Text Series - University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ibero-American Institute - Berlin. Has links to Latin American cinema and film resources.
- InfoNatura: Birds and Mammals of Latin America - Information on the birds and mammals of Latin America and the Caribbean—more than 5,500 common, rare, and endangered species in 44 countries and territories.
- Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) - National Institute of Archaeology and History (Mexico)
- Inter-American Development Bank | Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo - Established to help "accelerate economic and social develpment in Latin America and the Caribbean."
- International Cultural Property Protection - United States Department of State collects Recent Reports of Looting, Theft, Prosecution and Recovery on the World Wide Web. There is a Site Index and an Image Database of Restricted Objects which includes Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Peru.
- Internet Resources for Latin America - Molly E. Molloy, New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces.
- Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation - University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies
- Julian Samora Research Institute - Latino research center located at Michigan State University, the JSRI offers a Working Paper Series, Statistical Briefs, Research Reports and an Occasional Paper Series. Asymmetry by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz, Occasional Paper No. 16, discusses the asymmetrical relationship between Mexico and the U.S. in economics, heritage and culture.
- Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas - University of Texas, Austin. News Monitor is a "trilingual Web site (in English, Portuguese, and Spanish) that monitors daily journalism news in the Americas and offers useful resources for journalists."
- Latin American Alliance Network - "Project of World Stewardship Institute a ... nonprofit environmental education organization. Its mission is to develop environmental and educational business information about sustainable commerce for Latin American countries"
- Latin American Development Archive (LADARK) - Johns Hopkins University project contains data sets and other information useful to social scientists who are doing research on Latin American development.
- Latin American and Caribbean Government Document Project - David Block, Ibero-American Bibliographer at Cornell University's Olin-Kroch-Uris Libraries, has organized and described Latin American and Caribbean official documents appearing on the Internet.
- Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) - Comprehensive resource from the University of Texas at Austin. In the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project you can browse Latin American periodicals' Tables of Contents by country, or search by journal or article. There is also an Etext Collection, a Castro Speech Database and a collection of links to Libraries and Archives in Latin America.
- Latin Recording Academy - With information on the Latin Grammy Awards. There is a Latin Grammy Winners Search and a list of inductees to the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame.
- Latin American Library - Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University.
- Latin American Online Bibliography - Edited and maintained by Taína B. Caragol, Bibliographer, Latin American Specialist, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese. There is also a Survey of Archives of Latino and Latin American Art being conducted with participating institutions.
- Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection - Harvard University Libraries. "More than 5,000 titles including many scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries. Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico are the countries most heavily represented in this collection."
- Latino Resources at the Smithsonian
- Latino Web
- Latino USA: The Radio Journal of News and Culture - Produced by the Center for Mexican American Studies in partnership with KUT Radio in the College of Communication at the the University of Texas at Austin. You can hear This Week's News.
- Latin World - Directory of resources on Latin America and the Caribbean. Provides access to Latin World Magazine
- Library of Congress Country Studies - Descriptions of over 91countries, describing and analyzing political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions. Latin American couuntries included are:
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Chile
- Colombia
- Caribbean Islands
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Other useful U.S. government publications include CIA World Factbook and Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments.
- Library of Congress Webcasts - See also Library of Congress Podcasts
- La Quinceanera: A Coming of Age Ritual in Latino Communities - Norma E. Cantu, 18 November 2006 [36 minutes].
- Re-thinking Conquest: Spanish and Native Experiences in the Americas - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, 9 November 2006 [61 minutes].
- Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez - 30 September 2006 [64 minutes].
- 450 Years of Spanish Poetry in the United States - Tino Villanueva, Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Naomi Ayala, Maricel Mayor Marsan, 22 September 2006 [88 minutes].
- Engineering in the Andes Mountains: History and Design of Inca Suspension Bridges - John Ochsendorf, 8 December 2005, [41 minutes].
- Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 - Teresita Martinez-Vergne, 18 November 2005 [19 minutes]
- Need for Global Democratic Governance: The Perspective from Latin America - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 22 February 2005 [61 minutes].
- Mary Sue and Susan - Mexican recipes from Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, chefs, restaurateurs, cookbook authors, radio and TV personalities.
- Maya Astronomy Page - "Based on a written summary of a lecture Dawn Jenkin gave on the topic of Maya Astronomy at the February 13, 1995, at the regular meeting of the Cuyahoga Astronomical Association." HTML version was made by Michiel Berger.
- Maya Site at Odense University - Fully searchable database composed of the data published in John Dienhart's 3-volume work, the Mayan Languages - A Comparative Vocabulary, published by Odense University Press in 1989, is now on-line. It contains more than 40,000 entries.
- Mayan Epigraphic Database Project (MED) - University of Virginia.
- Mesoamerican Archaeology WWW Page - Also offers Pre-Columbian Archaeology Related Links.
- Mesoamerican Photo Archives - Photographs of Bonampak, Cacaxtla, Calakmul, Chalcatzingo, Cholula, Chultuns, Ek Balam, Loltun Caves, Monte Alban, Teotihuacan and Xochicalco by David R. Hixson, a graduate student in Tulane University's Department of Anthropology.
- Mexican American Murals: Making a Place in the World - K-12 curriculum resource includes lesson plans, images, and links to other web pages. See also Chicana and Chicano Space. (Getty Education Institute for the Arts Arts EdNet).
- Mexican American Trajectories: Family, Geography, and Intermarriage Across a Century - "Examines family and household relationships of Mexican origin Americans between 1880 and 1990."
- Mexican-American War and the Media - Linda Arnold
- Mexican Migration Project
- Annual data since 1982. A project of the Office of Population Research, Princeton University. Registration is required to download data.
- Mexico: From Empire to Revolution - Nineteenth-century photographs from the Getty Research Library.
- Miami Herald / Miami El Nuevo - Spanish version.
- Ministerio de Cultura - Spanish Ministry of Culture provides information on
museums,
libraries and
archives. The Archivo General de Indias (General Archive of the Indies) in Sevilla contains documents relating to the Spanish colonies in the Americas and the Philippines. See Computerization of the Archivo General de Indias: Strategies and Results by Pedro González, September 1998.
- Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert
- Mundo Latino: Prensa Latina - Online newspapers and magazines
- El Museo del Barrio - New York
- Museo del Oro - Banco de la República de Colombia.
- Museu da Pessoa - Life stories of ordinary Brazilian citizens.
- Museu do Índio - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Offers a collection of photographs taken during the 1940s of the Bororo, the Kadiwéu, the Umutina, the Urubu-Kaapor and Xinguano peoples, by Harald Schultz (1909-1966) and Heinz Foerthmann (1915-1978). Also available in English.
- LaMusica.com - New York-based English-language Latin music site.
- Musica Virtual Online - Los Angeles-based Spanish-language Latin music site.
- New Americans - Journal of self-financed road trip of writer Ruben Martinez and photographer Joseph Rodriguez as they followed Mexican migrants, many of them seasonal workers. (For more, see Wired's March 26th article, Zone of Discovery.)
- National Association of Hispanic Journalists - Has a collection of Latin American Links.
- National Security Archive - George Washington Universtiy. Has Electronic Briefing Books on Latin America. Among the documents are War in Colombia: Guerrillas, Drugs and Human Rights in U.S.-Colombia Policy, 1988-2002, The Tlatelolco Massacre: New declassified U.S. documents on Mexico and the events of 1968 and Brazil Marks 40th Anniversary of Military Coup: Declassified Documents Shed Light on U.S. Role.
- New School: Archive of Webcasts for Special Events
- Nestor Kirchner, President of Argentina
- Expectations and Experiences in the Latin American Region - September 19, 2006
- New York Times - Larry Rohter is the Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief.
- NewsHour Online: Latin America - PBS
- New Yorker Magazine: Online Only
- Chapter and Verse (21:57) - October 15, 2007. Paul Theroux reads Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Gospel According to Mark," originally published in the New Yorker on October 23, 1971.
- The Dating Game (17:38) - June 11, 2007. Edwidge Danticat discusses Junot Díaz's 1995 short story "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)," first published in the magazine in 1995. The story is read by Junot Diaz. See also Terry Gross' October 18, 2007 Interview with Junot Diaz on Fresh Air.
- Food of the Gods - Slide show of images of chocolate plantation in Bahia, Brazil, taken by Jason Florio.
- NewsLink - American Journalism Review site provides links to newspapers in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America. See also Barnews, Prensalatina, LANIC: Newspapers, ABYZ News Links and Internet Public Library.
- North America Project: Democracy and Human Rights in the Americas - World Policy Institute. There is also a Cuba Project.
- Novels Written in English about Cuba/Cubans/Cuban Americans, 1851-2000: an Annotated Bibliography - Prepared by Gene Bridwell, a retired librarian at Simon Fraser University Library, this is a chronological listing which includes images of all the books (including Jay Cantor's The Death of Che Guevara and Oscar Hijuelos' Our House in the Last World).
- El Nuevo Mundo: the Landscape of Latino Los Angeles - A selection of photographs by Camilo José Vergara. (Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution.)
- Organization of American States - A rich resource for publications, documents, news, data, live radio and videos on demand. The Columbus Memorial Library has an online catalog. Art Museum of the Americas has a virtual gallery. The OAS's Foreign Trade Information System, or Sistema de Información al Comercio Exterior (SICE), offers Quantitative Data. The Site Map provides links to Information by Country. There are sections on Free Trade Agreements, Trade Issues and the FTAA Process.
- Página de Literatura Guatemalteca - Juan Carlos Escobedo Mendoza, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) - The site is searchable and you can limit results to a particular country. The Press Releases are extensive and are available in English and Spanish. Offers Country Health Profiles.
- Pan-Hispanic Ballad Project
- Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists - Smithsonian Archives of American Art provides short biographies of 148 artists, some with oral history interviews.
- New York Times: Americas - Free registration.
- OCLC Online Computer Library Center (OCLC): Libraries Participating in Online Cataloguing with OCLC in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Patria Grande - Héctor Velarde
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - University of Texas, Austin. Has a large collection of online maps, including Maps of the Americas.
- Pew Hispanic Center - Research and surveys on the U.S. Hispanic population.
- Photo Brazil - Photo-journalist Ricardo Funari
- Political Database of the Americas - Extensive links to government sites with information on constitutions, electoral laws, and election data provided by Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies.
- Projecto Vercial: a maior base de dados sobre literatura portuguesa - Site apoiado pelo Projecto Geira da Universidade do Minho e pelo Laboratório de Informática e Sistemas do Instituto Pedro Nunes.
- Proyecto Biblioteca Digital Argentina - Browse by author or title.
- Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico (Hispanic Essay Project) - Created and maintained by José Luis Gómez-Martínez. You can browse by author and by period.
- Proyecto Coqui - Site maintained by Edgar A. Martínez provides information about Puerto Rican frogs (including pictures and sound). Also available in English.
- Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives - Portrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories. (American Memory, Library of Congress.)
- Pura Belpré Award - ALA award "presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth."
- QuePasa.com - Spanish-language portal. Others include Oyeme, LatinGuia, Terra (Mexico), Universo Online (Brazil), El Sitio (Argentina), Yahoo! Argentina, Yahoo! Brasil, Yahoo! Mexico, Yahoo! en Español and Google Español.
- Rebel Held: Inside Colombia's FARC - Houston Chronicle Special Report by John Otis, photographs by Marcelo Salinas, August 4, 2001.
- RecipeSource - Thousands of recipes including Mexican and Brazilian.
- Regla Papers - Indexed guide to the papers of the Romero de Terreros family and other colonial and early national Mexican families. (Washington State University Press.)
- Repositories of Primary Sources - Terry Abraham's listing of over 3500 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. There is a section for Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Rethinking History and the Nation State: Mexico and the United States - Special Issue of the Journal of American History includes articles, maps and timeline and photo galleries.
- Revista Electrónica de Literatura Mexicana
- Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)
- Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives - Includes links to Smithsonian Latino Center Related Resources
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute - You can search the online catalog in the Tupper Tropical Sciences Library.
- Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project - Dartmouth College Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- South American Explorers
- Spain, the United States, and The American Frontier: Historias Paralelas - "Examines the history of Spanish expansion into North America from Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas across the continent through Louisiana and Texas to the Southwest, California, and as far as Alaska." A digital collaboration of the National Library of Spain, the Biblioteca Columbina y Capitular of Seville and the Library of Congress, the Digital Collections include texts, maps, manuscripts, photographs and prints.
- Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures - "Features 68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution." (American Memory, Library of Congress.)
- Studies Dedicated to Fernando Ortiz (1880-1969): A Bibliography of Afro-Cuban Culture - New York Public Library Digital Collections
- Through Our Parents' Eyes: Tucson's Diverse Community - Southwest Land, Culture, and Society program, University of Arizona.
- Summit of the Americas Information Network
- Taller Boricua (Workshop Puerto Rican) - New York
- Tierra del Fuego - Argentina
- Trinidad Guardian
- Tucson's Ronstadt Family Homepage - University of Arizona. With sections on F. Ronstadt Company Wagon Works, The Singing Ronstadts (which includes Canciones de mi Padre: Spanish Folksongs from Southern Arizona), Dr. George Martin, Sr. Pioneer Arizona and Tucson Druggist Founder of the Martin Drug Company and Borderman: The Memoirs of Federico José María Ronstadt.
- Unión de Universidades de América Latina y el Caribe
- Unión de Universidades de América Latina y el Caribe
- United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures - Collaboration between the Library of Congress and the National Library of Brazil (Funda&ccedi;ão Biblioteca Nacional). Some of the titles in the collection:
- Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt with illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1914. Known as the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914). Appendix B: The Outfit for Travelling in the South American Wilderness, pp. 353-369. Index, pp. 373-383. Other full-text titles in the collection:
- The Amazon and Madeira rivers; sketches and descriptions from the note-book of an explorer by Franz Keller, engineer, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and co., 1875.
- Journal of a voyage to Brazil, and residence there, during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green [etc.], 1824.
- Universes in Universe: InArtData: Kunstverzeichnisse - German site provides directories for cultural institutions in Latin America with sections for Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela and Peru.
- US Agency for International Development - "Independent federal government agency that conducts foreign assistance and humanitarian aid to advance the political and economic interests of the United States." Sections of interest include Hurricanes In Central America and the Caribbean and Latin America and the Caribbean: Selected Economic and Social Data (the LAC Databook).
- U.S.-Mexico Border Issues: A Selected Bibliography from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' Collections
- U.S. Census Bureau - Has links to the latest trend data for
Minorities including
Hispanic and Latino. Also available is
Spanish Surname List For the 1990 Census: A New Approach to an Old Problem in pdf format.
- U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848) - PBS
- Vitruvius - Brazilian architecture
- Virtual Tourist - South America
- Vistas Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820 - Dana Leibsohn and Barbara Mundy
- Wall Street Journal Americas - In Spanish
- WGBH Forum
- La Plaza Series - "Interviews curated from WGBH Boston's La Plaza programs, including Conversations with Ilan Stavans and Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One."
- Whois Brasil - Look up IP numbers for Brazil.
- World Bank Latin American and the Caribbean - Their Doing Business "provides indicators of the cost of doing business by identifying specific regulations that enhance or constrain business investment, productivity, and growth. The indicators are developed by the Finance and Private Sector Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group." Hundreds of Reports are available online including:
- Doing Business Latin America
- Doing Business: Caribbean States
- Doing Business in Mexico
- World Trade Organization - Established in 1995 in Geneva, the WTO currently [23 July 2008] has 153 member countries including:
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuqdor
- Guatemala
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Uruguay
- Yahoo! en Español
- Yahoo! Brasil