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Modern Latin American History - HIST239 - Primary Sources
Primary sources available in the library or on the Internet relevant to Latin American History.
Resources in Library Databases
Off campus, these resources are available only to RVCC students, staff, and faculty and require a login with your G# and password.
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World Scholar: Latin America And The CaribbeanA Gale multidisciplinary online resource that enables research across the humanities for current issues and events in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as for a historical perspective back to the colonial period.
Select Historical Collections in the top menu to browse, or look for "Historical Newspapers" or "Historical Monographs" in your search results.
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Modern World History OnlineAn online resource that provides an overview of world history from the mid-15th century to the present with timelines, videos and slideshows, biographies, maps and graphs of historic explorations, empires and kingdoms, and wars plus links to many primary source documents.
Perform a keyword search, then select Primary Sources from the tabbed results.
To browse, select Primary Sources and then filter by an appropriate time period or topic.
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World History In ContextA Gale resource that provides a media rich overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people. This site places an emphasis on images and video with access to more than 1,700 primary source documents.
Perform a keyword search or choose from topics, then select Primary Sources from the list of Content Types on the right.
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ArtStorThe Artstor Digital Library provides access to 2.5+ million images of the world’s cultural heritage, all rights-cleared for use in education. Perform an advanced search to narrow by time period or geographical location.