Library Resource
Guide
Modern Latin American History 179
Fall 2007
This guide is intended to provide some resources to supplement your class readings.
Articles from newspapers and magazines
You can search for current articles on Latin American affairs on the following databases. These databases include articles from hundreds of newspapers, newsmagazines and news agencies from around the US and the world. These include sources like The Economist, the New York Times, and The Washington Post.
We have other resources that display the entire newspapers themselves. To access a wide range of U.S. newspapers and newsmagazines themselves, go to:
For those who read languages other than English, Press Display offers newspapers from around the world:
Reference Resources in Pattee Library
You can find the following books in the Reference Collection of the Arts and Humanities Library, Stacks Level 2, in Pattee Library .
Balderston, Daniel, Mike Gonzalez, and Ana Lopez. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. London, New York: Routledge, 2000.
Call number: F1406.E515 2000
Swanson, Philip. (Ed.) The Companion to Latin American Studies. London: Arnold, New York. 2003.
Call number: F1408.S93 2003
Tenenbaum, Barbara. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. New York: Scribner's, Macmillan Library Reference, 1996.
Call number: F1406.E53 1996
We also have similar works devoted to individual countries, such as:
Coerver, Don M. et al. Mexico: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Culture and History. Santa Barbara:ABC-CLIO, 2004.
Call number: F1234.C67 2004
Contact Roberta if you need something else! She will show you how to find books, articles and films about different countries and issues.
Reliable Web Sources
- BBC News/America
- Human Rights Watch: The Americas
- Americas Watch
- The LANIC Newsroom
- The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
- NACLA The North American Congress on Latin America
- LatinNews.com
- See also the great collection of web sites by clicking on the Current Events link at the Internet Resources for Latin America