HIST 302: Family Social History in Latin America

• Empire Online (some early travel accounts)
  
• North American Women: Letters and Diaries
• Early English Books, 1475-1700 (Books published in the U.K.)
  
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 1701-1800 (Titles published in the U.K.)

• Colonial Latin American Manuscripts, Call # FILM A439, Collection Guide Call # F1410.C656 1985
• Africans in the New World, 1493-1934, Call # FILM A448

Useful subject headings;

• "Early works to 1800"
• "Description and Travel"
• "sources"

Use the date limiter to find items published at the time of an event.

• Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), PAPER ONLY, Call # Z1605 .H4901, Index Tables, Arts & Humanities, 2nd Floor Pattee
• Handbook of Latin American Studies, PAPER COPY, Call # Z1605.H23, Arts and Humanities Reference Collection
• Historical Abstracts (Index to over 1,000 history journals)
• JSTOR (Full-text of back issues of selected scholarly journals)
• History Cooperative E-Journals (Recent full-text of selected history journals)
• Indice Histórico Espanol. Bibliografía Histórica de Espana e Hispanoamérica, PAPER ONLY Call # Z2696 .I6, Arts and Humanities Reference Collection

• Early American Periodicals Index to 1850, Call # Microprint.e765, News & Microforms, Ground Floor, West Pattee
• Ethnic Newswatch, Recent news publications online
• London Times Index, 1790-1905
• New York Times Historical, 1851-2005, Paper Index, Call # AI21.N44, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
• Poole's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1806-1900, Call # AI3.P7, Arts and Humanities Index Tables, Pattee 2, Continued by: Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-present Call #AI3.R4, Arts and Humanities Index Tables, Pattee 2
• Index to Latin American Periodical Literature, 1929-1960, Call # Z1601.P16 Q, Paterno Reading Room, 2nd Floor Pattee Library

• Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas (New York Public Library), Call # Z1201.N41 Q Paterno Reading Room
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, Call # F1406.E53 1996 Arts and Humanities Reference Collection, Pattee Stacks 2
• Encyclopedia of Mexic History, Society & Culture, Call # F1204.E539 1997 Arts and Humanities Reference Collection, Pattee Stacks 2
• Latin America: a Guide to the Historical Literature (older but useful for primary sources), Call # Z1601.G75 Arts and Humanities Reference Collection, Pattee Stacks 2
• A Reference Guide to Latin American History (detailed chronology, some biographies), Call # F1410.R395 2000 Arts and Humanities Reference Collection, Pattee Stacks 2

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

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