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Internet Resources

Image from a Journal kept by Guatemalan Miliary Death Squads, 1980s. Nastional Securites Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 15.

Resources: Internet
Contemporary Latin America

GENERAL

Source: Famous folks define: what is history

Website: Microfilm Collections, Latin America (by region & country)

Cornell's Making of America website (19th & early 20th c US magazines & journals; many articles about Lat Am)

Prof. Aldo Lauria's webpages for Advanced Research in Latin American History Which includes a page linking to various statistical databases (Holy Cross)

Prof. D. Manning, Links on Latin American topics (U. Nebraska)

Prof. Robert Jackson's Research Pages and Photos (of colonial & contemporary buildings in Latin America) (SUNY Oneonta)

Latin America Video Archive (LAVA)

Electronic Resources on Latino/Hispanic Studies, (UNM)

Research tools: to find articles
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Hispanic-American Periodicals Inde

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Newspapers & Magazines

US

• NY Times, The Americas
• Miami Herald, The Americas, Special Reports (on various topics, often Latin American)
• Chicago Herald Tribute, Nation/World Section
• Washington Post, esp. their Americas section, & "Desde Washington" a regular column available in English & Spanish, and Special Reports (Americas)
• News Headlines for Latin American Countries (updated daily) (hosted by Prof. A. Lauria-Santiago)
• North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)

LATIN AMERICAN

• International Guide to On-Line Newspapers, http://www.terra.com.gt/guia/prensa/
  (in Spanish; all you need to do is highlight the country name to get a list. NB: El Salvador is found under Salvador)
  
• Internet Public Library-On-Line Newspapers
• Haiti-Progrès (on-line; in Frenc)
  

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THEMES

LATIN AMERICA

• Latin American (&GDR) Poster Art, 1970-1989
• Latin American Statistics
• PBS Background Reports on Latin America
• American Studies Web (has links of possible use on immigration, Amistad, early colonial history)
• Buried Mirror (documents & images from the TV series)
• Slide Collection of Villanova U. (Latin America)
• Late 19th/Early 20th Latin America in Photographs
• Map-Independence in Latin America (in French)
  
• Timeline for Modern Latin America (1800-1999)- Prof. R. Slatta -
• University of Texas-Austin, Maps -- Latin America-- Perry Castañeda Library
• Le Monde Diplomatique-Articles, Maps, Links on Contemporary Latin America (esp. Peru, Colombia, Military) (in French)
• Political Divisions, Latin American Countries, 1940s-1950s
• Constitutions & Constitutional History (by country)
• Flags -Mexico, Texas, Spain
• Bibliographies, Latin America, 1870-1940
• Bibliography: Africans in the New World: Britain, 1833-1945
• Bibliography: Latin American History in the 19th c.
• Bibliography: Latin American History in the 20th c.
• Bibliography: Historiography
• Bibliography: The Cuban Revolution & Politics & Culture in the C. Rev.
• Bibliography: Urban History (Latin America, world, early, modern)
• Article: Political Parties & Re-Democratization in Latin America
• Links: LatAm Gvts: Congresses Info (including Legislation) by country
• Website: El Dorado: Wargaming South & Central American Conflicts--Conquest-1930s

STATISTICS

• FLAGS:
  • Flags of Latin America (click on flags to get maps)
  • Flags of the Caribbean islands (2nd site)
  • Flags of the World
• MAPS
  • Maps of the Americas (UTexas, Perry Castañeda Collection; country & some city), includes section of historical maps
  • World Atlas-Maps & Statistics: N & S America, Central America, South America, Caribbean, Mexico
  • States-good maps for some countries, some stats, in French
  • Maps--David Rumsey Collection--Colonial & 19th. c Maps of North & South America
• CONSTITUTIONS
  • Hispanic-American Constitutions (1800s->) (Spanish)
• Links: Links to Country Statistics by Latin American Governments
• List of Presidents (and some legislatures), independence-present (by country)
• Statesmen of Latin America
• Conversion of colonial to contemporary measurments (D. Frye, U. Mich)
• Website: UN: Infonation (website with economic, geographic & social indicators for individual countries) and Country at a Glance
• Website: UN: UNDP
  • Links: UNDP Links on Population, Development, Bibliographies, Conferences
• Website: UN: ECLAC
  • UN-Internal Migration within Latin America-Statistics (Bol. 65)
  • Migration within Latin America (2000)
• ECLAC Demographic Bulletin 63 (Urban & Rural Populations)
• Website: UN: ECOSOC: Various Statistical reports
• Website: UN: UNESCO:
  • UNESCO-Education & Literacy by Country, Educational Indicators (by region or country)
• Website: US Dept of State: Country Background Notes, W. Hemisphere
  
• Websote: US Census: Hispanic Population of the US (March 2000)
• CIA-World Factbook 2000
• Links: OAS Links of Interest
• Website: World Bank (lots of economic information)
• Website: Timeline of Events, 1800-1999 (Includes, wars, other events, not just Latin America; searchable by country)

US/LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS

• Timeline of US Latin AMerican Relations (R. Slatta)
• Timelines of US interventions: 1) Becker; 2) Rosenfelder
• The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• Origins of the Monroe Doctrine
• Basic Sources for research in Foreign Policy Issues (on-line resources) (Prof. S. Volk, Oberlin College)
• US Foreign Policy pre-1898 (w/ links to various events relating to Latin America) and 1898-1914 (Spanish American War) (Mt. Holyoke College)
• Anti- Imperialism in the US, 1898-1935. Collection of primary sources, many on L.A.
• US-Mexican War Battles (Map); a contemporary image (with Mexican boundaries, as of 1840s)
• Map of 1847 campaign routes
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• A collection of US-Mexican War Documents, at a website on the war, that includes several collections of images; maps; and other materials
• Pres. Herrera (Mexico) Proclamation vs. US annexation of Texas (1845)
• US Congress, terms for Texas, 1846
• Bulwer Clayton Treaty (1850)
• Pres. G. Cleveland, American Interests in the Cuban Revolution (1896)
• Marti page
• The Spanish-American War, 1898 (The World of 1898)
• The Spanish-American War, 1898 (an alternate site)
• Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico (Spanish)
• Website: Spanish American War in Motion Pictures (LOC)
• Map: Spanish-American War
• William McKinley & the Spanish American War (incl. cartoons)
• NYPL Exhibition, a new perspective on the Spanish-American War
  • with bibliography for research (general reference works, biography, newspapers, etc)
• Sec. State Sherman, on Political Situation in Cuba, 1897
• "A Message to García" --US Mythmaking: A US or Cuban war?
• Who Sank the Maine?
  • US Newspapers, 1898: Journal, Times, NY World
  • In 1976, US Navy says spont. combust.
• Afro-American Soldier on Battle of San Juan , 1899
• Theodore Roosevelt's Letter on Cuba (1907)
• Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
• The US Motion Picture Goes to War: T. Edison & Spanish-American War
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (62nd session of Congress)
• National Security Archives -- Declassified US Policy Documents from the 1950s->, including "briefing books" on Guatemala, Chile, the Cuban Missile Crisis, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/
• Links: US/Latin American Relations, 1890s-1930s
• US State Department, FOIA Declassified Documents (Central America, Argentina, Chile, Drug Trafficking)
• US intervention in Latin America (webpage); includes The Panama Canal
  • Building the Panama Canal
  • On the Panama Canal Treaty
    
• US & Mexican Revolution, Letters from Venustiano Carranza
• W. Wilson on Intervention in Mexico (1916, response to Villa raid)
• SecState Kellog, Bolshevism in Central America, 1927
• Senator Fulbright: Appraisal of US Policy in the Dominican Crisis, September 15, 1965 A wide-ranging critique of US foreign policy. (Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
• "The Truth about Haiti" --NAACP on US occupation, 1915-1933
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: The Lowering Hemisphere, The Atlantic Monthly, January, 1970, [At The Atlantic] On US policy in Latin America
• Operation Pan-America, 1958 An Aide Mémoire sentby Brazil to other American States, August 9, 1958 (Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
• Roy R. Rubottom, Jr.: Communism in the Americas, Department of State Bulletin, February 3, 1958 [At MS State] Cold War view of Communist efforts in Latin America.
• The Cold War--a CNN website/video on perpsectives, with numerous documents, profiles & interview, some relating to Latin America (Allende, Castro, Duarte, Ortega)
  • See also, Cold War Int'l History Project, WW Center
• President John F. Kennedy: On the Alliance for Progress, 1961 (Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
• Alberto Lleras: Report on the Alliance for Progress, 1963 (Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
• Documents from the Iran/Contra Affair (Nicaragua, 1980s)
  • Final Report of the Walsh Commission (1993), full contents
  • Digital National Security Archives (info)
• NAFTA-North American Free Trade Agreement (US, Canda, Mexico)
  • NY Times analysis, how Clinton got Nafta (1993)
  • NY Times, 1995, "darker side" of Nafta for US
• CNN Special: Panama Canal Handover (1999)
• The US Dept. of State webpage. Western Hemisphere Affairs
• US/AID, Latin America & Caribbean Division
• The CIA World Factbook on-line
• 1999 US Narcotics Control Report
• US "Plan Colombia" for support of the Colombian Government (to Jan 2001); updated information (Jan 2001-) (State Dept.)
  • Website:An NGO (CIP) on the US policy
• The US & the OAS (State Dept); Summit of the Americas (State Dept)
• Website: CIP (NGO): Demilitarization of Latin America
• Website: LOC, Spain, the US & The American Frontier; Historias Paralelas
• Website: LOC, Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 (includes Mexico, W.Indies)
• Website: CNN: Cold War, Episodes 10 (Cuba) & 18 (Backyard, maps)

EUROPEAN/LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS

• Constitution of Cádiz, 1812
• Karl Marx, Revolutionary Spain (1854)
• Irish in South America (195h/20th c)
• Latin America in WWI
• Zimmerman Telegram
• Website: LOC, Spain, the US & The American Frontier; Historias Paralelas

GENDER & SEXUAL ORIENTATION

• Women in Latin America (resources)
• Website: Guia de las Mujeres, Siglo XXI (Spanish), including list of bios
• Lorena Martos, Gender, Ethnicity, & National History (paper)
• Bibliograpy: Gay & Lesbian History--Latin America
• Bibliography: Women in Latin America (Spanish)
• Latin America Women (20th c. Feminism)
• Links to pages on gender-related issues at LANIC
• Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics (conference papers)
• Chicana Research Centers & organizations
• Latina Web Pages
• VIII Encuentro Feminista Latinoamericano y del Caribe (Spanish)
• Statistics on women (worldwide)
• Distinguished women of past & present (some Latinas)
• Right to Vote (some Latin American) timeline
• Women, Gender & History, L.A. & Caribbean (bibliography); Women in Latin American Societies, 1880-1940 (Bibliography)
• Economist articles, on homosexuality in Latin America
• Syllabus: Women & Gender in Latin American History
• Lamarck's Zoological Philosophy (1809)
• Abstracts, papers on Women's Health, Latin America
• Maquila Solidarity Network
• Andean Women: food Technology & Food Security, UNIFEM doc.
• Primary Sources for Researching Latin American Women's History
• Bibliography: Feminism in Brazil
• Bibliography: Feminism in Mexico
• Bibliography: Feminism in South America & Feminism in North America
• Journal: Revista da Estudios Feministas (Portuguese), index
• Website: Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (Argentina, Spanish)
• Website: Biographies, Women of Argentina (Spanish)
• Biography: Cecilia Grierson (1859-1934), first woman Dr, Argentina
  • alternate information
• Biography: Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885-1986), Argentine activist; see also alternate site (Spanish)
• Website: Mujeres del Sur (Southern Cone Women) Spanish
• Biography: Paulina Luisi (1875-19(Spanish)

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DEVELOPMENT & ENVIRONMENT

• Inter-American Committee: Problems of Latin American Economies, 1965 (Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
• US AID, Selected Economic & Social Data, Latin America
• Bibliography of Environmental History of Latin America (Stanford U.)
• Road to Buenos Aires: Information on climate change meeting in BA
• A Puerto Rican Garment Worker, 1920s, description of conditions
• Postcards--Streetcars of early 20 c Latin America
  
• Rural Mexican-American Worker, late 19th c.
• Puerto Rican Migrant, Labor Conditions, WWI
• Website: Early 20th c. Latin American Airline Ads (Spanish)
• Website: Costa Rica Environmental History, Case Study
• Website: LEAD (Leadership for Enviornment & Development) pages with data on Latin America if you search by topic/country name
• Website: UN Environment Programme (UNEP), including list of protected areas, by region, and information by country
• Website: UN Office for Drug Policy & Crime Prevention
• Website: ECLAC/CEPAL (UN) Economic think-tank of Latin America
  • List of on-line research & reports on development, gender, housing, education, inflation, youth, agriculture, regional & south-south trade, etc. (English & Spanish)
  • Rethinking the Development Agenda-by Exec. Sec, José Antonio Ocampo (2001)

RACE & ETHNICITY

• Article: NYTimes: How Race is Lived in America: Black & Hispanic Cubans in Miami (from series, How Race is Lived in America)
• Bibliography: Asians in Latin America
• Bibliography: Abolition in Cuba & Brazil
• Bibliography: Racial Discourse in Western Culture, 1780-1890
• Bibliography: The Atlantic World After the Slave Trade (19/20 c)
• Bibliography: Afro-Latin American Studies Brazil is emphasis
• Links: Afro-Cuba Web
• Links: Indigenous peoples of the Americas
• Links: Indigenous peoples of the Americas
• Links: Caribbean Amerindian Centre List of LinksIndigenous Peoples of the Americas
• Article: Brazil, Blacks & Racism
• Article:When Racism was Respectable: Franz Boas & the Instability of Human Type
• Syllabus: Science, technology & race( interesting readings)
• Database: Slave Movement in the 18th & 19th c., databases (primary source material)
• Timeline: Chronology of the History of Slavery & Racism (Holt)
• Website: Early Images of Latin America (photographs, 19th c,)
• Website: African Presence in the Americas 1492-1992 (Schomburg)
• Indigenous Women (resources)
• Indigenous Groups of South America (Spanish)
• UN Working Group on Indigenous Rights-Selected Documents, 1996-2000
• UNHCR List of Reports on Indigenous Issues
• Ethnic Language Groups of the Americas (by country)
• The Tulane U. Amistad Research Center
• Slavery from Islamic & Christian Perspectives
• Eugenics (in USA, 19th/20th c), a course syllabus with bibliography
• Human Rights Watch-1999 Report--Americas (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Perú, Venezuela); 2001 Report--Americas(Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Perú, Venezuela)

NATIONALISM & REVOLUTION

• Primary Source: Latin and Saxon America A. G. Brown, 1889
• Primary Source: Civil Wars in South America, E. S. Zeballos (Arg. Minister to Washington), August 1894
• "The Odyssey of Identity: Culture and Politics in the Evolution of Latin American Nationalism," Platte \/alley Review, 15:1 (Spring, 1987), 36-45 [At MS State]
• Guerrilla movements of the 20th century (in French)
• 19th Century Latin American Intellectuals (various texts, in Spanish)
• 20th Century Latin American Intellectuals (various texts, in Spanish)
• Democratization in Latin America --Syllabus--G. Yudice, NYU
• Marxist Writers (includes texts by Mariategui, Che Guevara, Reed, CLR James & Carlos Marighella, 1969, Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla; in Portuguese
• Karl Marx, Revolutionary Spain (1854)
• Website: LOC, Spain, the US & The American Frontier; Historias Paralelas
• Website: Jay's Radical History Links (revolutions of Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador and others included)
• Bibliography: Revolutions since 1789 (includes Cuba & Mexico)
• Biography/Review: CLR James & Black Jacobins (Dorn)
• Article: Spanish Electoral System, an accident of history (Cádiz in action)
• World's Columbian Expo--includes entries on Brazilian & Mexican art, international pavilions (Chicago, 1893)

RELIGION

• Links: Religion in Latin America (history of Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, Evangelical, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American religions)
• Website: Religions of Latin America (catholicism, mormonism, candomblé, etc)
• Article: Religious Human Rights in Latin America
• Primary Source: Pope on Persecution in Colombia (1863)

Liberation Theology
(at the Modern History Sourcebook Website:)

• Pope Paul VI: Populorum Progressio: The Development of Peoples, 1967 [At American.edu] Probably the most radical encyclical ever issued. Vigorously anti-liberal capitalism, Paul VI is mistaken as a "conservative" by those who think only of his teaching on contraception.
• Pope John Paul II: Opening Address at the Puebla Conference, 1979 [AtAmerican.edu]
• Far more worried than Paul VI about correct doctrine, but not opposed to social justice. Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Instruction on Certain Aspects of "Theology of Liberation", August 6, 1984 [At New Advent]
• Gustavo Gutierrez: Solidarity: The Victory of Life, homily on Death of Romero, [At APC]
• Straight Talk on Shining Path and the Catholic Church in Peru, 1992 [At csrp]
• Phillip Berryman: Church and Revolution, NACLA Report on the Americas, March/April, 1997 [At WHA]
• Are liberation theology, feminism compatible? [At UMR] On a clash between US Feminist and Liberation theologians. Anne Geyer: Pope's Cuban Visit Puts Cap on Marxist Liberation Theology, 1998, [At UExpress] Somewhat oversimple column. ]
• Definition
• Links to websites on Liberation Theology
• Article: Liberation Theology (by Seminarian Ron Rhodes)
• Article: Liberation Theology: Religious Response to Social Problems
• Article: Liberation Theology & Economics: Like Oil & Water (relation religion/ec)
• Sacred Arts of Haitian Voudou (Am. Mus. Nat'l History)

LITERATURE

• El Ensayo Hispanoamericano-texts in Sp, 16-20c
• Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (bibliography)
• Nineteenth Century L.A. Writers & Modernismo ; Early 20th C. Trends; Late 20th c. Trends (survey)
• Primary Sources: Nineteenth Century L.A. Writers--Full texts of various novels & essays, from Sarmiento to Avellenada
• Brazilian Authors (in Portuguese), Poetry & Essays
• Literary Biographies & Works, Spanish American Authors (sp.)
• Caribbean Women Writers & Caribbean Literary Movements
• Post-Colonial Literature-The Caribbean
• CLR James--A Critical Biography (Dorn)
• Stuart Hall-Biography
• Spanish American Poetry (Dario, Benedetti, Cardenas, more)
• Herman Melville-Benito Cereno (text), Las Encantadas (Galapagos Islands) (Text), White Jacket (text)
• Richard Henry Dana-Two Years Before the Mast(text)
• Joseph Conrad-Nostromo (text)
• Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (Argentina)
  • Article: US through 19th c Argentina eyes, B. Urraca (Haverford), "Quien a Yankeeland se encamina...": The United States and Nineteenth-Century Argentine Imagination
• Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala)
  • Biography (Spanish)
  • Biography (English)
• José Martí (Cuba)
  • "Letter to the Editor, 1889", click here
• Ariel Dorfman (Chile)
  • Professional bio. Duke University
  • Website in Spanish on man/work
  • Interview w/ Dorfman (1998) from El País, the Progressive
  • Article: If Pinochet Dies Abroad (1998)
  • UNHCR Biography (under Prominent Refugees)
• Oswald de Andrade (Brazil)
  • Article on anthropophagy
  • Biography (Portuguese); Biography (English)
• José Carlos Mariategui (Perú)
  • The Problem of the Indian (1928)
  • Webpage: Links to writings, biography, etc.
  • Website: Casa, Museo JC Mariategui (Spanish)
  • Website: Outline of life & writings
• Octavio Paz (Mexico)
  • Nobel Prize, 1990 (bio/info)
  • Biography
  • Octavio Paz Foundation
  • "Why I wrote Labyrinth of Solitude"
• Eduardo Galeano (Ecuador)
• Biography (Spanish)
• Articles (Spanish)
• Los Nadies (The Nobodies), poem (Spanish)
• Elena Poniatowska (Mexico)
• Biography
• Article: Nobles y diversos (Spanish)
• Gilberto Freyre (Brazil)
• Biography & Bibliography (Portuguese)
• Virtual Library (Portuguese, French)
• Pablo Neruda (Chile)
  • Canto General (full fext)
• Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
  • Literary Biography
  • Poetry (English)
• Jorge Castañeda (Mexico)
  • Interview, New Left Review (2001)
• CLR James (Trinidad)
  
  • CLR James Archive (interviews, etc)
• VS Naipaul (Trinidad)
  • Literary Biography
  • Bibliography
  • Nobel Interview
  • Interview on a new book: Between Father & Son: Family Letters

ART & MUSIC

• Website: 19th. C Zaruelas-Cuba & Mexico (bib.)
• Website: Diego Rivera Web Museum
• Webpage: Mexican Muralists & Cultural Nationalism
• Website:Martin Chambi, Peruvian Photographer
• Website: Sebastiaõ Salgado, Photographer
• Website:Arte Maya--Mayan Art from the Guatemalan Highlands
• Website: History of the Argentine comicstrip (historieta), 20th c (Sp, Eng)
• Website: Enciclopedia Artes Visuais (Brazilian Art & Artists) (also, general art history) (Portuguese)
• Article: Afro-Cuban Music: Origins & Development
• Article: History of Afro-Cuban Music (M. Deschamps)
• Links: Afro-Cuban Drum Rhythms & Sites on Afro-Cuban Music
• Website: Popular Music of the Estado Novo (Portuguese)
• Website: Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande, 1940s (with audio clips), LOC
• E-Journal: CLAVE: A Journal of Latin American Arts & Culture (esp. music)
• Website: Latin American Percussion Mailing List. List of Rumba Lyrics; Links to Latin American Musicians & Percussionists on the Web
• Website: Descarga.com. Latin American Music--Terms Discography, Articles...including The Death of Salsa by Abel Delgado, and Yoruba Sacred Music, Old World & New by John Gray
• Website: Latin Rhythms (With audio clips), the beats & images of some percussion instruments
• Website: Me Gusta la Salsa (French/English/Spanish) Overview of some percussion instruments with audio clips of their rhythms
• Website: Trinidad Carnival, with a history of calypso
  • alternate site w/ links to soundbites of early calypso
• Website: A History of African Music
• Website: Jamaica's History & Music; alternate site
• Website: Caribbean Music
• Website: Film in Brazil & Argentina
• Website: Art in Mexico after the financial crisis of 1994
• Webpage: Jacob Lawrence & Expressions of Freedom (art about Haiti, partic. Toussaint L'Ouverture)
• Website: Hispanic Music of the Rio Grande (LOC)

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REGIONS

ARGENTINA

• Website: A History of Argentina, from the colony to the present (English/Spanish
• Website: History of Argentina (Commercial; interesting images; Spanish)
  • Includes speeches (sound files) from 1930s, politics & society
• Webpage: Peronism in Argentina, Emory U.
• Declaration of Independence (1816)
• Frases de Mafalda (Spanish)--quotes from memorable cartoon character

19th Century

• Website: San Martín, a biography of the independence hero
  • various texts on/by San Martín (Spanish)
  • Website in Spanish about San Martín
• Website: History of Independence (Spanish, images, maps)
• Website: Immigration (Spanish)
• Website: Museum of the Hotel de Inmigrantes (Spanish)
• Webpage: Generation of 1880 (Spanish)

  20th Century

• Webpage: Photos of Berisso (Buenos Aires) and the frigoríficos
• Webpage: Government of Roca (1896-1904) (Spanish)
• Peron Speeches
  • Juan Domingo Perón: Justicialism, 1948/1950 (Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
  • Juan Domingo Perón, Speeches, 1973-1974 (Spanish); additional speeches, from 1940s forward
  • Eva Duarte de Perón: Speech, 1950, in Spanish (Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
• Text: Eva Duarte de Perón: History of Perónism, excerpts, 1951 (Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
• Article:María Fernanda Arias: Charismatic Leadership and the Transition to Democracy: The Rise of Carlos Saúl Menem in Argentine Politics, Texas Papers on Latin America Paper No. 95-02 [At Lanic
• Website: Juan Domingo Perón
• Website: Eva Peron Historical Research Foundation
• Website: Isabelita: The Last Perón
• Website: Eduardo Frei Montalva--Biography (President, 1964-1970)
  • polemical article (Spanish) on Frei
  • son Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagle, President, (1994-2000); alternate site (English)
• Website: Salvador Allende, CNN profile (English)
• Website: Salvador Allende, speech to UN, 1972, excerpts (English)
• Website: Salvador Allende, "Education for Democracy" Speech (English)
• Website: Salvador Allende Homepage (Spanish), with an excerpted transcription & tape of his last speech, 11 September 1973 (alternate site for recording), on public radio; an alternate site with more of the text
  • An English page on S. Allende, with links
• Website: Falklands' War (1982) a chronology (from 16th c!) & bibliography
• Article: Argentina & Great Britain--Goodwill and a group of islands(1998 Economist article on occasion of C. Menem visit to UK, first of an Argentine president since 1960s)
• Website: Pictures of Contemporary Buenos Aires
• Website: Truth Commission
• Website: Argiropolis (Spanish) Journal of Academic Argentina; includes Proyecto Ameghino with information on academics in Argentina's history, including JB Alberdi & DF Sarmiento

BELIZE

• Looting of Mayan Archaeological Sites (CHE, 2000)

BOLIVIA

• La Coca en la Historia de Bolivia (1995)
• Prof. Robert Jackson, Coca & illicit Cocaine Trade in Bolivia
• Website: Truth Commission

BRAZIL

• Website:Capoeira
• Website:Coca-Cola Advertisements in Brazil, 1940-2000
• Website: The History of Brasilia (English/Portuguese)
• Website: A Nossa Historia (History of Brazil, Portuguese)
• Text: UN Report on Racism in Brazil (1996)
• Website:Net Historia (portuguese) Site on Brazil's history, with primary & secondary sources
• Text: Constitutional History & most recent constitution (in English)
• Text: Theodore Roosevel,t Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914), travel account
• Website:Dom Pedro I & Dom Pedro II (in Portuguese)
• Links: History of Brazil (links)
• Website: Slave Trade to Rio, 1795-1811: on-line research
• Bibliography: Brazil, Economy & Society, 1870-1930, a bibliography
• Timeline, independence-present (commentary as well)
• The Estado Novo--an analysis, in Portuguese
• Popular Music of the Estado Novo (Portuguese)
• Website: Feminism in Brazil (Portuguese)
• Website: Historia do Brazil (some images, 1930s)
• Website: History of Forced Labor (Portuguese; images)
• Bibliography: Brazilian Culture (Anderson, UNC)
• Website: Brazilian Foreign Ministry (has brief history; diplomatic history has extensive collection of maps) (Site in English/Spanish/Portuguese; Dipl Hist in Portuguese)
• Carlos Marighella, 1969, Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla
• Symposium: Culture of Dictatorship: Historians consider 1964 Golpe

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CARIBBEAN (General)

• Mitchell's West Indian Bibliography (Caribbean & C. America)
• Website: Commonwealth Studies: nNtro to Caribbean (images, text)
• Index: Articles on Caribbean history
• Article: The Role of Education in forming a National Identity in the Caribbean (Hughes)
• Links: Caribbean Amerindian Centre List of Links
• Links: Duke University Library Links Relevant to Caribbean Studies
• Links: Caribbean Studies
• Articles: World History Archives: Caribbean
• Articles: Index of articles published in the New West India Guide
• Website: Antilles Guano & Steam Dockyard Company (1870s)
• Papers: Student Papers on the Caribbean (1998-2000) Variety of Topics
• Website: LOC, Spain, the US & The American Frontier; Historias Paralelas
• Website (Commercial) with good contemporary maps of the islands
• Website: Virtual Institute of Caribbean Studies (links, papers on contemporary Caribbean)
• Website: Caribbean (general, articles, images, maps, notes, indiv.histories)
• Website: Articles on History of Windward & leeward ISlands
• Website: An Economic Look at Economics of Tourism in Grenada
• Website: Modern Amerindian Communities in the Caribbean-many resources, links, articles, etc.
• Website: The Caribbean Basin Initiative (1983-present) (official site)

CENTRAL AMERICA(General)

• Links: 20th C- Central American & Caribbean Political Groups *links to web sites
• Bibliography: R. L. Woodward Jr., Selective Bibliography on Central America (includes sections on history, periodicals, travel accounts, etc.) (1998)
• Statistics: Latin American Election Statistics --Histories of electoral policies & politics, for El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica
• Website: Istmo,Revista Virtual de Estudios Literarios y Culturales Centroamericanos, a literary & historical review, based on the Internet
• Website: PARLACEN, with Constitutions (Gu, Ni, Ho, ES, CR, Pan, DR)
• Website: 20th C. Central American Maps
• Website: Documents of the Contadora Peace Process (1980s-1990s) (Spanish)
• Website: Chronology of the United Fruit Company (UFCO) with some history & biographies, as well as a bibliography
• Articles: Papers given at the V Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, July 2000, San Salvador (Spanish)
• Website: Central America (articles, images, notes, individual country histories)

CHILE

• Bernardo O'Higgins, Libertador (Independence Period, Spanish)
• Chile & the US: Declassified Documents Regarding the Coup
• Instituto de Historia (Unif. Pontif. de Chile)
• The Truth About Pinochet
• Documents from the Pinochet Trial , articles from El Pais (Spain), in Spanish
• Pinochet Prosecuted (NY Times compendium)
• Salvador Allende, last speech (1973) (Spanish
• The Crimes of Augusto Pinochet (anti-Pinochet website)
• The Crimes of Chilean Generals
• Website: Truth Commission
• Website: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Website: Pinochet Trial (Spanish, English)
• Digital Archive: Cuban Heritage (U. Miami)

COLOMBIA

• Simón Bolivar (Independence)
• Primary Source: Samper, Sobre las revoluciones políticas (1861) (Spanish)
• Website: Various primary sources from Bolívar to 20th c on history of Colombia, Panama
• Primary source: Pope on persecution in Colombia (1863)
• Primary Source: 5 años en Panamá, W. Nelson, 1885 (travel account, Sp.)
• Website: Cartagena de Indias: 100 anos en imagenes (100 years of images)
• Colombia & Latin America (Le Monde, French)
• The Peace Process in Colombia
• Revista de Historia, Colombia (Spanish)
• Report on the Ethnic Situation in Colombia (1997, UNHCR)
• Le Monde Diplomatique-Special Issue on "l'heure colombienne" (on-line, in French), has maps, etc. Includes map on the principal drug routes of Latin America (1998)
• The Colombian Armed Forces Webpage (Spanish)
• The Colombian Presidency's Peace Process Policy (Spanish)
• The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) (Spanish)
• The Army of National Liberation (ELN) (Spanish (possibly not working)
• Links: Colombia Conflict
• Webpage: Travels in Colombia: Colonial, 19th, 20th c

COSTA RICA

• Costa Rica in 1856: Defeating William Walker while creating a national identity, by Lisa Termenstein
• Bibliography--Books on Costa Rican History/Political Development
• Website: Costa Rica Environmental History, Case Study
• Website: Costa Rican Coffee "quality when it comes to caffeine"

CUBA

• History of Cuba (various pages)
• U. Miami: Resources for "Memory & Record" : Cuban History
• The Cuban Experience (website with timeline, bio, gvt, etc info)
• Science in Cuba: colony to 20th c (article)
• José Martí, Texts, (Spanish) (Mi Raza, Nuestra América, San Martín, Bolívar, La Niña de Guatemala, etc.)
  • extracts in English, different extract, Our America
  • page dedicated to Martí in English
  • Martí by the folks at the Cuban Experience
• Cuba, Yellow Fever, Reed Commission (1898-1904), UVA Online Exhibit, including Report on Quarantine, 1908
• Scenes from a Revolution (40 years). (Washington Post)
• The Saga of Elian Gonzalez (Miami Herald)
  This page has numerous links to Cuba-related webpages.
• The Mariel Boatlift, 20 Years Later (Miami Herald) (alternate link)
• Cuban Revolution Timeline (A. Lauria-Santiago, Holy Cross)
• Posters of the Cuban Revolution
• Perspective: Interviews w/ Castro (CNN)
• Musical History (Buena Vista Social Club, PBS)
  includes timeline of Cuban Music
• Article: Cuba in Caribbean Perspective-E. Godfried
• The Cuba Blockade and Links on Cuba (CIPA)
• Documents relating to US Policy, Cuban Missile Crisis (Mt. Holyoke)
• Khrushchev Speech on Cuba (1960)(Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
• JFK, The Lesson of Cuba, 1961(Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
• Castro Speech Database (1959-1996)(English)
• Castro, "History Will Absolve Me," (1955); Excerpts, (English); full text (English); 2nd full text (English)
• Castro, Second Declaration of Havana(Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
• Castro, On the Export of Revolution(Modern History Handbook, Fordham U., Prof. Halsall)
• Article: Cuba in 1958
• Bibliography: Moderate Cuban Politics, 1952-1965 (H. Ackerman, U Miami)
• Fidel Castro: Biographies: No. 1, No. 2, No. 3
• Cuban Missile Crisis (Documents) (Mt. Holyoke)
• US Dept. of State, 2000, Policy on Cuba; 1999 Human Rights Report
• Cuba: Systemic Repression of Dissent (anti-Fidel paper)
• Che Guevara Webpages: First, Second, Third
• Helms-Burton Act (Cuba Liberty & Democratic Solidarity Act), 1996
• Cuba Information Archives--Various sources from articles of 1950s, including Havana Street/City Directory
• Cuban Revolution, 1952-1959. Lots of primary sources including NYT articles

ECUADOR

• Ecuador Republicano, Ecuador Moderno
• Website: History (Colonial-Present, Spanish) on the Armed Forces' webpage
• Website: Peace Agreements (Ecuador-Perú)

EL SALVADOR

• El Proceso de Paz, documentos (Spanish)
• Website: Peace Agreements (English) ; Peace Accords (Spanish)
• Enemies of War-PBS Documentary, includes timeline (US Policy in El Salvador, 1980-2000)
• Website: Truth Commission
  

GUATEMALA

• Historia de Guatemala--Comprehensive Guatemalan History Website--extensive Spanish website on many aspects of Guatemalan history, with text & images (from Maya through conquest, colonial & present; some laws, interesting site!)
• Guatemalan Literature (Pre-Colombian-present, bibliographies, biographies, some texts, Spanish)
• Guatemala in the early 20th c. Photography by Valdevellanos
• The Anglo-Belize/Guatemala Territorial Thesis, Janine Sylvestre, MA Thesis
• Frederick Catherwood, prints of ruins (1840s)
• Los Altos, the formation & ending of a state, 1830s (Spanish)
• Quezaltenango in history (by the same author as Los Alto