Latin American Studies Resources

An important source of American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments throughout the world in the 20th century focusing on Europe and Latin America.

During World War II and the first decade and a half of the Cold War, the Office of Strategic Services and the State Department assigned leading scholars to write special, classified reports about Asia, Europe, the Soviet Union, Latin America, and Africa. At the time, the reports helped to shape U.S. foreign policy decisions, and, now, the over 3,500 reports in this module provide an excellent source for studying the major areas of the World during the period from 1941 to 1961.

BDMx is a collaboration of four Mexican cultural institutions, el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, el Archivo General de la Nación, La Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) y el Centro de Estudios de Historia de México CEHM- Carso, that collects " relevant historical and cultural documents from their holdings, and they would invite the numerous Mexican libraries and archives, and foreign repositories that have important Mexican documentation to join this effort."

BNDM "in line with the mission that the National Library has fulfilled since 1867 and which consists of collecting, preserving, disseminating and safeguarding the bibliographic memory of Mexico, now makes part of its collections available to the world , archival and documentary funds, which give a true account of the wealth of our country's cultural heritage and whose digitization process will increase."

"El Portal de cultura chicana ofrecer obras de creación e investigación sobre dicha literatura. Nuestra intención es presentar al público la producción literaria, cultural y crítica de las chicanas y los chicanos, oriundos y residentes del Suroeste en Estados Unidos de América."

"The Chicano Culture Portal offers works of creation and research on said literature. Our intention is to present to the public the literary, cultural, and critical production of Chicanas and Chicanos, natives and residents of the Southwest in the United States of America."

"The exhibition Códices de México, Memorias y Saberes celebrates the 50th anniversary of the National Museum of Anthropology and the 75th anniversary of the National Institute
of Anthropology and History. For the first time in its history, the codices stored in the National Library of Anthropology and History
are shown to the public to share their artistic beauty, the depth of their content and their universal relevance."

"dLOC is a cooperative of Partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections. dLOC comprises collections that speak to the similarities and differences in histories, cultures, languages and governmental systems. Types of collections include but are not limited to: newspapers, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official documents, documentation and numeric data for ecosystems, scientific scholarship, historic and contemporary maps, oral and popular histories, travel accounts, literature and poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts."

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's ICAA aims to "collect, exhibit, research, and educate audiences about the diverse artistic production of Latin American and Latinx communities, including artists from Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and artists of Latin American descent living and working in the United States. By establishing the center, the museum sought to bring about a long-term transformation in the appreciation and understanding of Latin American and Latinx visual arts in the United States and abroad." This links to their digital collections and projects.

"This guide provides curated Library of Congress resources for researching LatinX Studies, including digitized primary source materials in a wide variety of formats, books and periodicals, online databases, and research strategies."

"The Onda Latina Collection consists of 226 digitally preserved audio programs including interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns from the radio series 'The Mexican American Experience' and 'A esta hora conversamos' the Longhorn Radio Network, 1976-1982."

Recovery "is an international program to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1960. The program has compiled a comprehensive bibliography of books, pamphlets, manuscripts and ephemera produced by Latinos. The holdings available at the project include thousands of original books, manuscripts, archival items and ephemera, a microfilm collection of approximately 1,400 historical newspapers, hundreds of thousands of microfilmed and digitized items, a vast collection of photographs, an extensive authority list, and personal papers. In addition, the program has published or reprinted more than 40 historical books, two anthologies, and nine volumes of research articles."

This page of SALALM's site "hosts a database of listings that provide links to open access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean."

"Voces Oral History Center is the leading Latino oral history archive in the United States. It began in 1999, with a mission of capturing untold stories of Latinos and Latinas who served, in the military or on the home front, during World War II.

Our archive has expanded to include the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and Political and Civic Engagement, focusing on the continuing fight for Latino civil rights."