Research Guides: HIST 343: Students in Latin America: Primary Sources

Newspapers

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.

Center for Research Libraries Newspaper Catalog
Use to identify newspapers by country and city in the CRL collection. Newspapers are available on microfilm or as digital scans of the microfilm. Microfilm can be borrowed through interlibrary loan. Note: the date limit searches the date of first publication, not the years available.

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.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers (US)
Searches across the full text and images of major U.S. and Black historical newspapers. Includes New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, L.A. Times, and more.

Each of these databases searches archival collections. Limit your search to digital collections to discover digitized collections

Archive Finder
Describes collections of primary source materials housed in repositories in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland. Searchable by keyword for topics, creators, etc.
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 Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera
Latin American Journals Project
Latin American Political Campaign Ephemera Collection
LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center
"Facilitates access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America." Includes research guides by subject and geographic region.
"Independent Voices"
Collection of open access alternative press newspapers written by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

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.
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.