New Resource- Feminism in Cuba
- Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new windowThis collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime. The collection sheds light on: Cuban feminism; women in politics; literature by Cuban women; and the legal status of Cuban women. Learn more about this database
New Resource- Latin American Newstand
Recent Year Coverage of Latin American Newspapers available in new database- Latin American Newsstand
Latin American Newsstand -Provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 37 newspapers from Puerto Rico, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. Key newspaper titles include El Universal, Mexico City's largest-selling newspaper; O Globo(Brazil); La Nación (Argentina); and El Mercurio (Chile). Three business titles, El Economista (Mexico), Valor Econômico (Brazil), and Portafolio (Colombia).
Latin American Newsstand titles includes eight Brazilian newspapers, three Mexican newspapers, two newspapers each from Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, and Uruguay, and single newspapers from Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. The remaining titles are regional magazines and wire services including Noticias Financieras financial newswire; InfoAmericas market analysis and regional economic trends; IPS-Inter Press Service news agency; El Reporte Delta weekly technology newsletter; and Business Wire Latin America.
Year coverage for many of the titles begins in 1996 to current but not all, the full title list is available here.
Archive Databases
Public life in contemporary Argentina an extensive grassroots view of contemporary Argentina (1996 to the present).
- Latin American Newspapers (1822-1922) This link opens in a new windowOver 80 fully searchable newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere.
- Latin American Newsstream This link opens in a new windowArchival database of newspapers published and news in Puerto Rico and South American countries.
- Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new windowThis collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime. The collection sheds light on: Cuban feminism; women in politics; literature by Cuban women; and the legal status of Cuban women. Learn more about this database
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975 - 1996) This link opens in a new windowAn index to the FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world. Include translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world.
- Mafia in Florida and Cuba: FBI Surveillance of Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante, Jr. (Archives Unbound) This link opens in a new windowMaterials on Santo Trafficante, Jr., Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano, including FBI surveillance and informant reports and correspondence from a variety of offices. Dates range from 1946-1977.
Readers, Bibliographies & Reference Sources
- Children of God's Fire byISBN: 0691101531Publication Date: 1984-01-01Subject areas covered:
Slave trade -- Africa -- History
Slave trade -- Brazil -- History
Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church
Brazil -- Race relations -- History
Abolitionists -- Brazil -- History 
We People Here by ISBN: 0520078756Publication Date: 1994-03-14Aztecs -- History.
Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540.
Indians of Mexico -- History.
Victors and Vanquished:Spanish and Nahua views of the conquest of Mexico by ISBN: 9780312393557Publication Date: 2000-11-15- Documentos para el estudio de los esclavos negros en Venezuela byPublication Date: Caracas: Academia Nacional de la Historia, 1969.
Digitized Collections
Empire Online contains over 70,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material from 1492-1962 pertaining to the British empire. It is an excellent source for primary documents on the British colonization in Argentina, Central America, and the Caribbean -- though it is not limited to these regions. Search by "View Names" "View Topics" or by "View Places."
Some links from the "View Places" index. Some links from the "View Topics" index
Guatemala Argentina Patagonia Panama Indigenous Peoples Emancipation
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive, Part I This archive deals primarily with documents, books and newspapers pertaining to slavery in the United States. However, there is also a selection of material on the Caribbean and Latin America that can be pulled out.
- I suggest doing an Advanced Search. Select the field/s Geographic Subject or Title and type in terms such as --Latin America, Cuba, Brazil.
The Making of the Modern World Presents more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. In almost 12 million pages, it focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense.
- use the same search suggestions suggested for Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
- Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804
- Latin America--Discovery and exploration
- Slaves--Emancipation--West Indies, British
Eighteenth Century Collections Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800, with full-text searching of material; in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
- Go to Advanced Search - input words as Subjects or Titles of documents i.e, Peru, Treatment of Indians
Latin American Travelogues The goal of this project is to create a digital collection of Latin American travel accounts written in the 16th-19th centuries at Brown University. Digitized books are linked to essays written by undergraduate students. Select a book chapter of interest as a primary source.
The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.