CQ Researcher
- CQ Researcher (1991 - ) This link opens in a new window44 reports per year. Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week, featuring comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue.
Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture by ISBN: 0521631513Publication Date: 2004-03-29
Oxford Bibliographies
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History This link opens in a new windowExpert recommendations on the best works available in each discipline; from a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set. Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field. Covers the nature of interactions between different peoples and cultures on four continents and many islands in the period between Columbus' voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth century and the end of slavery in the Americas in the late nineteenth century.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Latin American Studies This link opens in a new windowCombines the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia to guide researchers to the best available scholarship in Latin American Studies. Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field. Also includes expert recommendations on the best works available in each discipline – whether it be a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set – to streamline the research process.
Good Starting Points
Need a definition of a term? Can't remember a date, need back ground information on a person, phenomenon, theory, or historical event? Use these (mostly) online reference sources.
- Oxford Reference OnlineBrings together hundreds of Oxford encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks. Search for a person, an event, a term, or a concept.
- Latin America -- EncyclopediasThese are print sources and excellent.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowComplete texts of the Cambridge Histories series. Volumes are grouped into topics enabling browsing by historical subject areas and includes extensive bibliographic referencing and other leading functionality.
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.
