Digital Collections
- Archives Unbound [Gale] This link opens in a new windowClick on Browse Collections and check out the listings under Latin America.
- The Making of the Modern World [Gale] 1450-1945 This link opens in a new windowCovers social history, early commerce, trade, colonization, industry, political systems, revolutions, slavery, exploration, philosophy, and more.
- National Security Archive (George Washington Univ.)Declassified documents on U.S-Latin American relations. Use search box to look for documents on your country.
- Sabin Americana [Gale] 1500-1926 This link opens in a new windowBased on Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time. Full text books, pamphlets, broadsides & documents, from sermons & tracts to legislation & literature. Covers all the Americas.
Hot tip!
The single best way to identify relevant primary source material is to read widely in the secondary literature on your topic; scrutinize the notes and bibliography for published primary sources that you can access.
The Online Catalog & Primary Sources
As you search in the online catalog, watch for the words "personal narratives," "diaries," "interviews," "correspondence," "pamphlets," and "sources" as part of the subject headings; these may point you to published primary sources in the library collections.
Other clues may be buried in the title, authorship, date of publication, etc.
