A digital collection of historical content pertaining to Hispanic history, literature, political commentary, and culture in the United States. The collection draws its content from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, the largest national project ever to locate, preserve, and disseminate Latino-Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form, from colonial times to 1960.
Content Includes:
Approximately 60,000 historical articles
Hundreds of political and religious pamphlets and broadsides
Complete texts of over 1,100 historical books of Hispanic literature and culture
Content written in Spanish (80%) and English (20%)
Content indexed and searchable in Spanish and English
Includes thematic content focusing on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Rare and relevant books and newspapers – including rare anarchist newspapers – are presented in their original form.
Content Includes:
Hundreds of rare books by Latino-Hispanic Americans
Over 3,000 issues of rare historical newspapers and periodicals, including over 75,000 pages of content
Over 250,000 pages of personal and organizational manuscript content
Content written in Spanish (80%) and English (20%)
Content indexed and searchable in Spanish and English
(1833-1969) British Government documents, including diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, investigative reports, profiles of leading figures, description of tours, political and economic analyses, and maps, covering Central and South America and the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Topics covered include slavery and the slave trade, immigration, relations with indigenous peoples, wars and territorial disputes, industrial development, and the rise to power of populist rulers such as Perón in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil.
Part of Archives Direct.
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(c.1948- ) Over 104,000 declassified U.S. government foreign policy documents organized in 49 collections that cover critical world events and U.S. policy decisions. These documents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are drawn from the collections of the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
Included collections
Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy
Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970–1990
CIA Covert Operations: From Carter to Obama, 1977-2010
CIA Covert Operations II: The Year of Intelligence, 1975
CIA Family Jewels Indexed
Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
The Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Update
The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection, From Bay of Pigs to Nuclear Brink
Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden
Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part III, 1961-2000
The Kissinger Conversations, Supplement: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969–1977
The Kissinger Conversations, Supplement II: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013
The National Security Agency: Organization and Operations, 1945-2009
Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000
The President’s Daily Brief: Kennedy, Johnson, and the CIA, 1961-1969
Targeting Iraq, Part 1: Planning, Invasion, and Occupation, 1997-2004
U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action
The U.S. Intelligence Community After 9/11
U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
U.S. Nuclear History, 1969-1976: Weapons, Arms Control, and War Plans in an Age of Strategic Parity
The United States and the Two Koreas, Part II, 1969-2010
The United States and the Two Koreas (1969-2000)
(c.1700s to the present) A collection of full-text literary works, memoirs, essays, and feminist works written by women in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Most of the texts are in Spanish and Portuguese.
(1500-1926) A digital collection of over 65,000 titles, including books, pamphlets, political tracts, maps, and other works about North, South, and Central America and the West Indies, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Part of Gale Primary Sources
(15th to the present) Contains digital facsimiles of original manuscripts, letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, and ephemera related to the history of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980, represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century. It is based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project,” a national research effort directed by Nicolás Kanellos, Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston.
This collection is based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project” directed by Professor Nicolás Kanellos at the University of Houston. It is a subset of America's Historical Newspapers and part of the Archive of Americana.
(1805-1922) Latin American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1805-1922, offer unprecedented coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped this vital region during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring digital facsimiles of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Latin American newspapers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and a dozen other countries, these resources provide a wide range of viewpoints from diverse Latin American cultures.
The library was able to acquire the content in this database thanks to a generous gift from Mrs. Laura Landoe, a Davidson parent; we thank her for her support.
