Latin American Studies - Primary Sources - by Subject (Historical)

Newspapers

Historic Mexican & American Press (Univ. of Arizona)
Historic Mexican and Mexican American news publications from mid-1800s to 1970s from Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico

Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
News, magazine, and journal articles from the ethnic, minority and native press.
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Coverage begins in 1990.
NewsBank Access World News This link opens in a new window
Full-text news sources from US and international publications. Option to limit search by geographic area.
NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from U.S. and international sources, including The Washington Post, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Trenton Times, USA Today, London Times, The Economist China Daily (Beijing).

Digital Collections & Databases

Digital Collections

Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano
Portal for Ibero-American digital cultural resources. Materials from libraries connected to the Asociación de Bibliotecas Nacionales de Iberoamérica (ABINIA).
Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network: Digital Collections
Variety of primary source materials from research libraries. Options to limit search by country, collection, or subject.
Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera (Princeton University)
Digitized ephemera includes "pamphlets, brochures, flyers, posters, placards and other printed items created since around the last quarter of the 20th century by a wide variety of social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, public policy think tanks, and other types of organizations across Latin America"
Digital Library of the Caribbean
Cooperative digital library of resources from and about the Caribbean.
Early Caribbean Digital Archive
An open access collection of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images. Most materials were authored and published by Europeans, but the ECDA "aims to use digital tools to 'remix' the archive and foreground the centrality and creativity of enslaved and free African, Afro-creole, and Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean world."
Endangered Archives Programme (British Library)
Digitized images and sound tracks of items around the world that were in danger of deterioration or destruction.
LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center)
Digital collections from UT-Austin's Institute of Latin American Studies. Search all collections of click Digital Initiatives for specific collections.
LLILAS Benson Digital Collections (LANIC)
Numerous digital projects and initiatives from the Benson Latin American Collection and LLILAS. Managed by the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
SALALM Digital Primary Sources
Links to open access digital collections of primary sources related to Latin America and the Caribbean
UT Austin Benson Collection
Includes newspapers, images, books, maps, and more. Many materials relevant to Latin America.

Databases

African Diaspora, 1860 - Present This link opens in a new window
Primary source documents covering migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora through the voices of people of African descent, with a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France.
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Primary source materials in world history.
This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology.
Primary Sources (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Includes many primary source collections related to Latin America
Primary Sources Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Primary source collections include: Border and Migration Studies Online; Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Europe and Latin America, 1960-1969; Immigration Records of the INS; Latin American Drama; Latino Civil Rights during the Carter Administration; Colonial Legacies: Empire and Commonwealth Periodicals; and Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919-2019

Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian Studies (LACLI)
A repository of free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies
Confidential Print, Latin America, 1833-1969
Official British documents from the National Archives, UK

History Vault This link opens in a new window
Includes two collections related to Latinx History: 1) Bexar Archives: Colonial Archives of Texas during the Spanish and Mexican Periods, 1717-1836; and 2) Latino Civil Rights during the Carter Administration
Subjects include African American studies, women’s studies, history, political science, military and diplomatic history, immigration.

Government Documents

Brazilian Government Documents
Executive branch serial documents from 1821-1993 and from its provincial governments until 1930.
Human Rights in Latin America (CIA)
Documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, primarily from 1964-95. Most documents are on El Salvador and Guatemala, but some also on Brazil, Nicaragua, Honduras, Chile, and Peru
Mexican Intelligence Digital Archive (MIDAS)
Historical documents from the two main Mexican intelligence agencies (DFS and GSIPS).

Special-Topic Digital Collections

Archive of Political Parties and Elections in Latin America (APPELA)
Copies of websites from over 100 political parties in Latin America in 2005
Chilean Protest Murals (Harvard University)
Protest murals created during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, 1973-1990.
Documents of Latin American and Latino Art
From the International Center for the Articles of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Human Rights in Latin America (CIA)
Documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, primarily from 1964-95. Most documents are on El Salvador and Guatemala, but some also on Brazil, Nicaragua, Honduras, Chile, and Peru
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection (Harvard University)
19th and early 20th century rare pamphlets, mainly from Chile, Cuba, Bolivia, and Mexico
Latin American Travelogues
Latin American travelogues from the 16th-19th centuries. From the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University.
Slave Societies Digital Archive
Archival materials recording the history of Africans and their descendents across the Altantic World