Research Guides: HIST 342: Borders and Frontiers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Primary Sources

Newspapers

Center for Research Libraries Catalog
Contains holdings of difficult to obtain journals, newspapers, dissertations, and a variety of primary sources. Materials can be requested through interlibrary loan.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Publication Dates: 1990-Present
Includes full text of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press in the United States. Coverage is national and regional.
Alternative Press Archive
Publication Dates: 1969-1990
Contains summaries of articles from alternative, radical and left magazines and journals. Use to research topics not covered well in the mainstream press.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
Publications Dates: 1808-1980
Represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century.
FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service)
Publication Dates: 1941-1996
Contains full text of English translations of foreign broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals and government statements, covering policy and politics important to US interests.

SALALM Digital Collections Tool
Large directory of Latin American archival collections.

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)
Publication Dates: 1945-Present
Contains full text of declassified US government documents, primarily acquired through FOIA requests, covering U.S. foreign policy since 1945.
ArchiveGrid
Indexes major museum and archive collections in the United States and throughout the world. Searchable by collection topic or by location.

HathiTrust Digital Library
Access public domain books and journals from U.S. research libraries digitized by Google, Internet Archive, and other digitization partnerships.

Digital Library of the Caribbean
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.

ARTstor
A giant collection of high-resolution images. Focuses on art and architecture, but is also good for archaeology, anthropology, and history.

Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera
Large collection of political images, newsprint, and posters.

Associated Press Images Collection
Publication Dates: 1844-Present
Current and historical archive of photographs, graphics, audio, and text created by the Associated Press.