Library: HIST 342: Latin America: Evolution and Revolution: Home

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Subjects:Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Government Information, History, International Language and Culture Studies, Philosophy & Religion, Political Science, Public Administration, Sociology

Books

Helmke Library Catalog
Find books, e-books and more available at Helmke Library.

Proquest Ebook Central
Search and view the full text of ebooks.
WorldCat
Search for books in over 7,000 libraries. After searching, you can use the "Request Item through Document Delivery" link to borrow items from other libraries.

Scholarly Article Databases

Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life
Search across two important scholarly article databases in history. You can also search Historical Abstracts (world history) and America: History and Life (American history) separately.

JSTOR
Search the full text of journals in many disciplines, including over 450 journals in history. You can narrow by date and also scroll down to narrow by discipline. Also includes book reviews.
Project MUSE
Includes the full text of journals in the humanities and social sciences, including history. After searching, you can limit by subject, year, and more.

Library "Everything" Search
Search across many Helmke Library databases to find both primary sources and scholarly materials. After searching, try the filters at the left hand side. This is also a good place to look for items found in footnotes or a bibliography. If you don't find the full text of the item you're looking for, make a Document Delivery request. The "Everything" search is also the default search on the Library's homepage.

Google Scholar
Full text searching of books and articles. If you find a title of interest, try the "cited by" link.

Reference Sources

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of e-reference books from a variety of publishers.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
A collection of e-reference books from Oxford University Press.

A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture
Available online.
Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History
ISBN: 1280712120
Available online.
The Companion to Latin American Studies by Philip Swanson
ISBN: 1134643098
Available online.

Primary Sources

Library Catalogs & Collections

Helmke Library Catalog
Helmke Library's catalog includes both online and print primary sources. You might try searching by author (for important historical figures), resorting by publication date, and experimenting with keywords such as: correspondence, documents, sources, memoirs, diares, etc. You could also try adding the word translated to your search.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a digital archive of books and other materials. Full text access for many pre-1923 and other public domain materials. You can search either the catalog or the full text.

WorldCat
Provides access to the OCLC database with more than 1 billion bibliographic records for materials in all formats held by libraries in the U.S. and around the world.

Libraries -- Latin American Studies
A guide from LANIC, at the University of Texas, with links to libraries and other relevant resources.

Newspapers & Periodicals

American Periodicals
Includes U.S. magazines and periodicals, with much of the coverage from the late 1800s to the early to mid-1900s. To get a sense of the content, you can try searching for a country and then browse by Publication Title.
Periodicals Index Online
Citation and some full text searching of a large collection of mostly U.S. and some U.K. periodicals, with date coverage from the late 1800s and, depending on the title, through much of the 20th century. Also includes international coverage, such as the Spanish-language titles Nosotros and Revista de Geografía Colonial y Mercantil. See also Periodicals Archive Online.
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
A collection of 500 U.S. newspapers from the 19th century. Full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
Historical Newspapers
A database of U.S. historical newspapers including the Baltimore Afro-America (1893-1988), Baltimore Sun (1837-1991), Boston Globe (1872-1984), Chicago Tribune (1849-1992), Detroit Free Press (1831-1922), Los Angeles Times (1881-1992), New York Times (1851-2013), and Washington Post (1877-1999).
NewsVault
Includes an large collection of British newspapers and periodicals. You can search across the whole collection or within specific collections. Try changing "Keyword" to "Entire document." Also includes 19th Century U.S. Newspapers.

You can also try looking for newspapers and periodicals in primary source databases.

Primary Source Databases

Note that many of the sources available in these databases can also be found with the catalog.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Includes full text e-books, manuscripts, newspapers and periodicals. Under the Advanced Search, you can search the "Entire Document." Also includes some early 20th century materials.

C19, The Nineteenth Century Index
Find primary source books, periodicals, newspapers, and official publications. Also includes an archive locator.

World Scholar: Latin America & The Caribbean
Includes both 19th and 20th century primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean. For specifics, you can Browse Historical Collections. Try also the Advanced Search. You can change "Keyword" to "Entire Document" for full text searching.
Making of the Modern World
Provides digital facsimile images of unique primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. You can limit by date and search by country.
Sabin Americana: 1500-1926
Contains primary documents relating to the Americas dating from 1500 to 1926. You can narrow by date and search by country.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online
Provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Covers major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond. See also Digital National Security Archive.
Archives Unbound
20th century primary sources with collections focused on the Middle East, post World War II Europe, feminism in Cuba, and Africa and the African American experience.
Latin American Women Writers
An extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also included are essays by Latin American feminists and about the feminist movement.

Websites: Digital Archives & Guides

19th Century Latin America
Selected primary source documents, from Fordham University.
20th Century Latin America
Selected primary source documents, from Fordham University.
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection
From Harvard, includes mostly Spanish and Portuguese-language materials.
Latin American Travelogues
A digital collection from Brown University. You can browse by country.
Latin American & Caribbean Digital Primary Sources
Open access digitized collections of primary sources from Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by region and country. From SALALM - Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials.
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
From the University of Texas.
Digital Library of the Caribbean
Created by a consortium of universities, libraries and other organizations.
Online Primary Sources on Latin America
A list compiled by Johns Hopkins University, organized by topic and geography.
Oxford Latin American Economic History Database
Includes 20th Century statistical information.
Selected Internet Resources -- Emory University
See also the Google News Archive tab.

Citation Guides & Tools

Chicago Manual of Style - Purdue OWL
Consult the options at the left hand side of the screen for info. on creating a bibliography. From the OWL Purdue Writing Lab.
Chicago/Turabian Documentation Style
From the University of Wisconsin Madison Writing Center

A Pocket Guide to Writing in History by Mary Lynn Rampolla A Pocket Guide to Writing in History is a brief, inexpensive, and easy-to-use guide to the writing and research skills needed for undergraduate history courses. Its concise yet comprehensive coverage of every step of the research and writing process—including detailed advice on documenting sources and avoiding plagiarism—have made A Pocket Guide to Writing in History the trusted choice in history.
ISBN: 9781457690884
Publication Date: 2015-01-16