Latin American and Latinx History: Latinx History
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) offers comprehensive bibliographic citations for scholarly journals focused on Latin America and the Caribbean since the late 1960s. It supports research in Latin American studies and covers political, economic, social, and cultural topics and. With key words in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, it facilitates searches across multiple languages.
- America: History & LifePublished since 1964, the index of literature covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, with over 1,700 indexed journals dated as far back to 1910.
Encyclopedias, handbooks, companions
Primary Source Collections
- Hispanic Digital Collections at the LIbrary of CongressIncludes digitized primary source collections on topics including literature, government, history, and more
- VOCES Oral History Project (UT)The Voces Oral History Project documents and creates a better awareness of the contributions of U.S. Latinos and Latinas of the WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War generations.
- Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926This database contains digital versions of titles found in Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana, 1500-1926. Included are digital versions of almost 37,000 titles of books, broadsides, pamphlets devoted to life in the Western Hemisphere. The full text of each work included may be searched using keywords, subjects, authors, titles, or geographical areas. The publisher expects this database to be completed around 55,000 titles.
- Farmworker Movement Documentation ProjectPrimary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993.
- Latinx Diaspora in the Americas Project (LDAP)100+ oral histories dedicated to creating space for Latina/os to share their historical experiences related to identity, immigration reform, labor conditions, education, and civil rights.
Sample search text
Primary sources:
sources OR correspondence OR diaries OR personal narratives OR interviews OR diaries OR facsimiles OR notebooks OR speeches OR manuscripts OR early works to 1800 OR pamphlets
Sourcebooks:
"primary sources" OR "documentary history" OR sourcebook OR "history in documents" OR "documents in"
Immigration
immigra* OR emigra* OR migra* OR asylum OR refug* OR "illegal alien*" OR diaspora
Sourcebooks and documentary histories
Secondary Sources
- Immigrant America : a portrait (ebook)Explores the economic, political, spatial, and linguistic aspects of immigration; the role of religion in the acculturation and social integration of foreign minorities; and the adaptation process for the second generation
- Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America (ebook)Traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy
Statistics & Data
- StatistaStatista consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources. It includes insights and facts across 600 industries and 50+ countries.
- iPollA database of public opinion research and response with over 825,000 questions and 25,000 studies dating back to the 1930s.
- U.S. Census BureauSearch "hispanic" in search box
- Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States (2015)Statistical profiles and trends of the Latino population based on the Pew Hispanic Center tabulations.
- Latin American Migration Project (LAMP)The Latin American Migration Project (LAMP) is a multidisciplinary research effort between investigators in various countries of Latin America and the United States. Data from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru, Haiti and Colombia are available, and can be downloaded from this website. For more information, see https://lamp.opr.princeton.edu/
