Latin American, Latinx, & Caribbean Studies: Archival & Primary Documents

Explore a collection of articles, pamphlets, and other texts pertaining to Untied States Hispanic history, literature and culture. The content is 80% Spanish, 20% English and is searchable in both languages. Coverage: colonial era to 1960. This purchase was a gift of Robert J. Weinstein, Dickinson College class of 1941.

Explore resources from various national libraries across Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Portugal and Spain. This collection includes literary works, audio recordings, musical scores, maps, drawings, magazines and newspapers. Coverage: varies, contains primary sources. Some full text.

Access papers generated by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices, covering topics such as slavery, immigration, wars and territorial disputes, and British business and financial interests in Central and South America and the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Coverage: 1833-1969, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access Latin American pamphlets, posters, stickers, postcards and more, originally created by a wide array of social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties and public policy think tanks to publicize their views, agendas, policies, events, and activities. Subjects include agrarian and rural issues, arts and culture, children and youth, economics, education, environment and ecology, gender issues, health, human and civil rights, labor, minorities, ethnic and racial groups, politics and government, religion, science and technology, socioeconomic conditions, and tourism. Coverage: 1900-present, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections, including 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. Coverage: varies, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access primary sources including personal letters, journal essays, radio broadcasts, memoirs and more, on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women, and the legal status of Cuban women, from the period of Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime. This collection is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1898-1958, contains primary sources. Full text.

Search freely available digital collections related to Latin America and the Caribbean. This index includes historical texts, recordings, statistics, and visual materials. Coverage: varies, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access Latin American anarchist and labor periodicals accumulated by the Austrian anarchist, historian and collector Max Nettlau (1865-1944) with a number of later additions, relating to the formative anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist episode (1890-1920) in the history of Latin American labor movements. Most content is in Spanish or Portuguese, with some material in Italian, German, Dutch, French, and English. Coverage: 1880-1940. Full text. This purchase was funded by the Walter E. Beach '56 Library Endowment.

Access United States State Department records including political and military documents relating to the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath. This collection is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1910-1924, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access historical issues of SUR, an influential literary magazine published in Latin America in the twentieth century. This collection includes images of the complete magazine and a set of images of manuscripts from the first issue, as well as an unpublished set of letters by the magazine's founder, Victoria Ocampo. This collection is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1931-1992, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access primary source material for insights into the origination and planning of fairs; the experience; and the physical, cultural, and political legacies. This collection includes official records, publicity, artwork and artifacts, among other documents. Coverage: 1851-2015 - mostly 1880-1920: the "golden age" of expositions, contains primary sources. Full text.