Antigua & Barbuda - History & Culture
A short history.
The Constitution of Antigua and Barbuda, 1981
Political Database of the Americas, Georgetown University.
Castro Speech Database
A database containing the full text of English translations of speeches, interviews, and press conferences by Fidel Castro, based upon the records of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency.
Cuba and World History
Cuban Collection
Books, archives, periodicals. University of Miami Libraries.
Cuban History
Articles and links. Florida International University.
Historical Experiences
Articles and text of original documents. From Windows on Haiti.
History of Haiti
From Precolumbian to the present, Bob Corbett of Webster University presents what is surely the definitive site on Haitian history.
Peopling North America: Population Movements & Migration
An historical overview of migratory movements, this tutorial focuses on diasporas to and within Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean from Europe, Asia, and Africa. University of Calgary.
A Narrative of Events since the First of August, 1834
by James Williams an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica. This electronic edition is from Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.
Sloane in Jamaica
Sloane went to Jamaica in 1687 as the colonial governor's doctor. In his three years there, he made the first collection of the region's wildlife by a European. The Natural History Museum, London.
Marine Puerto Rico Plateau History
History of Ichthyology in Puerto Rico. U.S. Geological Survey, Florida Caribbean Science Center.
Puerto Rico . . . Its Land, History, Culture, and Literature
Lesson plan and teaching guide by Frank J. Gallucci. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century
The early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections.
University of the Virgin Islands Libraries
Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo
Grandmothers of May Square. An organization working to locate the hundreds of children that were kidnapped in 1976 when the military seized control of Argentina. In Spanish and English.
Argentina - 1982 Malvinas War
Bibliography and forum.
Argentina Human Rights Information
Cinemateca Argentina
Archives, library, exhibitions.
Vanished Gallery
Bolivia: History
80 Years of Japanese Immigration
Brazilian History: Tiradentes
Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier was the leader of the first organized movement against Portuguese rule in Brasil in 1789. This is just a short blurb.
Farroupilha Revolution
Forte de Copacabana
History of Brasilia
Chile's Ancient Mummies
Chile: History
El género en Historia
Electronic book by Anne Perotin-Dumon, Institute of History,
Catholic University, Santiago, Chile, 2000. This virtual volume serves as the initial stage of a needed text on gender history in Spanish, for a Latin American audience. It presents an overview of the development of gender approaches over the last quarter century; describes and defines the analytical tools available to write history from a gender prespective; provides researchers, teachers and students with a rich corpus of reading material; and introduces recent teaching and rapidly growing research on
the field in Chile.
A History of Chile under Salvador Allende and the Popular Unity
The 1970 elections; the tank attack; the military coup (September
11, 1973). Essays and rare photographs describe the period.
Colombian History
Archaeology of Costa Rica
Overview of the Precolumbian cultures of Costa Rica. Michael J. Snarskis.
Background Note: Costa Rica
History, people, economy and geography. U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
History of Archaeology - Costa Rica
Central American Cultural-Ecological Information Network.
History of Costa Rica
A short history from The Costa Rica Supersite.
One Hundred Years of Anthropology in Costa Rica
A bibliography of published and unpublished sources. John Hoopes, University of Kansas.
Ecuador: History
Sorry, no links on El Salvador at present.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Central American Cultural-Ecological Information Network
Focus is Lower Central America. Collections in anthropology and natural history.
Columbus and the Age of Discovery
As its contribution to the 500th Anniversary of The Encounter of Two Worlds, Millersville University of Pennsylvania created and installed The Computerized Information Retrieval System (CIRS) on Columbus and the Age of Discovery in 1989.
A joint research project of the History Department and Academic Computing Services, CIRS is a text retrieval system containing over 1100 text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches, official calendars and other sources relating to various encounter themes.
Darwin in South America
Darwin's five year voyage on HMS Beagle in South America. The Natural History Museum, London.
Library of Congress/HLAS Online
Handbook of Latin American Studies.
Spain, the United States, & the American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
A collaborative effort of the Library of Congress, the Institución Colombina and National Library of Spain. The site features maps, rare books, manuscripts, prints and photographs, and motion pictures from the Library of Congress. These selected items relate to Spanish influence and interaction with other cultures existing in the geographic areas of North America, the Caribbean, and present-day Mexico between 1492-1898. In English and Spanish.
Wallace in South America & Malay
Wallace spent four years in the Amazon rainforest and eight years in the Malay Archipelago (modern Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia and New Guinea). The Natural History Museum, London.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Arts and History Virtual Forum of Mexican Culture
Electronic Publication dedicated to the diffusion of Art, Culture
and Mexican History.
Border Revolution
This paper, by Cindy Baxman, looks at the contrasts and conflicts between the U.S. and Mexico during the Mexican Revolution between 1910 and 1920.
Mexican Museum, San Francisco
The Mexican-American War Memorial Home Page
Mexico from Empire to Revolution
Photographs from the Getty Research Institute's collections explore Mexican history and culture though images produced between 1857 and 1923.
Mexico History Directory
From Mexico OnLine.
The Our Lady of Guadalupe Web Site
Panoramas--The North American Landscape in Art
Candian, Mexican and U.S. landscape art in this exhibition reflects the natural environment as well as history, industries, cultures, and belief systems. This trilateral virtual exhibition is a colloborative effort of The Canadian Heritage Information Network, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, and their respective governments.
Peopling North America: Population Movements & Migration
An historical overview of migratory movements, this tutorial focuses on diasporas to and within Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean from Europe, Asia, and Africa. University of Calgary.
A Shared Experience
The History, Architecture and Historic Designations of the Lower Rio Grande Heritage Corridor. This HTML version is adapted from Mario L. Sánchez' original print version. The Texas Historical Commission.
Treaties of Velasco
The two treaties of Velasco that were negotiated between officials of the ad interim government of the Republic of Texas and Santa Anna.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty with Mexico, February 2, 1848.
Aztec Bibliography
Aztec Manuscripts
Nahuatl Home Page
Gateway to many resources concerning the Nahuatl language and Aztec culture. The University of Montana.
Andean History
Ice Mummies of the Inca
NOVA Online.
Machu Picchu!! Crown Jewel In The Clouds!!!
Good photographs. It would be nice if they were annotated.
Archaeological Sites - Palenque
Colorado School of Mines.
Arte Maya Tz’utuhil Museum & Gallery
Mayan art museum. San Francisco, California.
Lacandon Maya Communities
Maya Civilization Past & Present
Mayan Epigraphic Database Project
Classic Mayan epigraphic research. University of Virginia.
Mayan Fonts
Mayan Ruins of Mexica, Guatemala, Belieze & Honduras
From Great Outdoor Recreation Pages. Well written articles.
The Mayan Temple
N.Y. Times article Monumental Throne Unearthed at Mayan Temple Complex, 1999.
Mundo Maya Mexico
Mystery of the Maya
Also has a bibliography and teachers guide. Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Rabbit In The Moon: Mayan Glyphs and Architecture
American Indian History and Related Issues
This world wide site is a developing site supervised by Professor Troy Johnson and is dedicated to the presentation of unique artwork, photographs, video and sound recordings which accurately reflect the history, culture and richness of the Native American experience in North America and has been expanded to include Indian people of Central America and Mexico.
Conquistadors
Educational resource for middle and high school classrooms to learn about the Spanish Conquistadors in the New World and the legacy of their contact with Native Americans. PBS.
Peru: History
World History Compass