HIST 127: U.S. Latino History

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• Hispanic Americans: a Statistical Sourcebook
• Atlas of American Diversity
• Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
  

The U.S. Government collects most of the statistical data used in the sources above and much of it is now available on the web. See our Government Documents page for a list of Executive Agencies on the web.

• America: History and Life (articles in history journals)
• Handbook of Latin American Studies
• HAPI: Hispanic American Periodical Index
• Sociological Abstracts (Articles in sociology journals)
• Women's Studies International (index to books and articles about women)

• History Cooperative
• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• Periodical Archives Online

Ethnic NewsWatch. Full-text articles from Ethnic and minority newspapers and magazines since around 1990 (some earlier content).

Proquest. Articles in all subjects from over 5,000 magazines, journals, and newspapers.

America's Newspapers. Full-text from a wide range of newspapers, including the Centre Daily Times.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Full-text of national and local newspapers, business publications, magazines, and news and radio transcripts.

New York Times Historical (1851-2005) (Digital Archive)

Newspaper Photos (Accunet/AP Photo Archives)

In addition to the databases above, the library has many newspapers on MICROFILM in the News and Microforms Library, Ground Floor of West Pattee. To see which newspapers we have in our collection by region or time period use NewsCAT.

Eric Novotny
History Librarian
Arts & Humanities Library
W321 Pattee Library
Penn State University
814-865-1014
ecn1@psu.edu

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