Latin American Studies

Archive Explorer is a single search for all Adam Matthew content collections accessed by NYU Libraries. Includes: Empire Online, Confidential Print: Latin America, Slavery, Abolitiion and Social Justice Global Commodities, and Age of Exploration.

World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean provides access to a curated collection of primary source materials (manuscripts, printed books, newspapers, maps, and ephemera) organized by topics relating to the history, cultures, and societies of Latin America and the Caribbean. The database also includes relevant secondary literature (academic articles and journalistic reports) and reference resources tied to each topic. Includes: Bauza Maps and Manuscripts Collection; Brazil's Popular Groups, 1966-1986; Coleccion De Documentos Ineditos Relativos Al Descubrimiento, Conquista Y Organizacion De Las Antiguas Posesiones Espanolas De America Y Oceania. -- Madrid : M.B. de Quyros, 1864-1884; Conquistadors: The Struggle for Colonial Power in Latin America, 1492-1825; Latin American History and Culture: An Archival Record, Series 1: The Yale University Collection of Latin American Manuscripts, Parts 1-7; Latin American and Iberian biographies; Mexican and Central American Political and Social Ephemera; Papers of Agustin de Iturbide, 1799-1880.

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Includes: Colección Revolución, 1910-1921 (Mexico); Emiliano Zapata, 1901-1919 (Mexico); Evangelism in Latin America: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1854-1911; Federal Surveillance of the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rico); Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents (Cuba); Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944.

BrillOnline Primary Source consists of thematic collections of unique materials such as rare books and documents from around the world. Includes:
Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations (Casa de las Américas); Classic Mexican Cinema; Latin American Anarchist and Labour Periodicals Online, c, 1880-1940; The Guatemala Collection.

Confidential Print: Latin America provides access to searchable digital facsimiles of documents generated by the British Foreign Office now held at The National Archives, U.K. It includes reports, dispatches, correspondence, economic analyses, and other documents covering Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, between 1833 and 1969. For certain periods and regions, only selective files are available; for precise coverage, users should consult the scope notes in the introduction to this resource (under "Quick Links" on the resource homepage or via this link here).

Includes more than 60,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions. Includes: Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy; Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970-1990; Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010; Cuba and the U.S.: The Declassified History of Negotiations to Normalize Relations, 1959-2016; The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection of Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War; Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999; El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977–1984.

Gale Primary Sources is a groundbreaking research environment that integrates formerly disparate digital collections to enable innovative research. Gale provides an unprecedented, seamless research experience that helps students find a starting point, search across a wide array of materials and points in time, and discover new ways to analyze information. Includes: Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture; The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926; Sabin Americana; Making of the Modern World
US Declassified Documents.

This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years.

Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.. Includes: Argentina’s Dirty War (1969-1983); Guatemalan Civil War (1962-1996); Chile - Pinochet Regime (1973-1990); Colombian Conflict (1964 -- ); Peruvian Internal Conflict (1980-2000); Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992).

Latin American Newsstream allows users to search within a selection of current and recent full-text Latin American newspapers and newswires covering international and Latin American regional topics.

Provides over 14,000 primary source titles based on Joseph Sabin's bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana. Materials describe every aspect of life in the Western Hemisphere from 1500 to the 1890s. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. Searchable in a variety of ways, including: author, title, year of publication, and subject.

Bringing together primary source documents from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world, this resource allows students and researchers to explore and compare unique material relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice.In addition to the primary source documents there are secondary sources for research and teaching; including an interactive map, scholarly essays, tutorials, a visual sources gallery, chronology and bibliography.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes documents from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world. In addition to newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains documents from several archives originally available only on microfilm.

Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian (LACLI) is an international collaboration to create a repository of free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies. LACLI is an essential tool for finding websites that provide access to a great variety of resources, such as audiovisual materials, books, data, ephemera, government documents, oral histories, periodicals, reference works, visual materials, web archives and more.