Using Primary Sources on the Web
Please Read! Along with describing what they are and where to find them, this site tells you how to evaluate and cite them. Created by the History Section of the Reference & User Services Assoc. of the American Library Assoc. Click on the examples links for more websites.
WWW Virtual Library: Latin American Studies (LANIC, University of Texas)
LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center) is the best gateway for finding Latin American resources on the web. See the section for history.
LANIC E-Text Collection "These resources include research papers written by Latin American studies scholars; theses and dissertations; etext versions of books; conference proceedings; speeches by Latin American leaders; periodical publications; and official documents. Some of the e-texts are in Spanish, others are in English." - from LANIC E-Text About page
Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages From the Assoc. of Research Libraries.
Cuban Heritage Digital Collection "...digital manuscripts, photographs, letters, maps and other resources held in the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection."
Castro Speech Database: Speeches, Interviews, Articles 1959-1996 "Full text of English translations of speeches, interviews, and press conferences by Fidel Castro, based upon the records of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency responsible for monitoring broadcast and print media in countries throughout the world."
U.S. and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures (Library of Congress Digital Collection)
"Explores the history of Brazil, interactions between Brazil and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, and the parallels and contrasts between Brazilian and American culture and history."
Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
"Executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire in 1889." Includes Provincial Presidential Reports; Presidential Messages; Almanak Laemmert. Also a Statistical Subject Guide.
19th Century Latin America (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)
WWW Virtual Library - History: Electronic Texts Lots of links to indexes and collections of E-Texts.
WWW Virtual Library - History: Central Catalog Access individual country WWW Virtual Library pages from this central site along with other useful history resources.
World History Sources
Links to primary source archives in world history. From the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
18th Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes a variety of materials — from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements. Includes "every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom."
Americas Digital Archive
Select digitized documents from Rice University's Americas Collection. Covers the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America from the beginning of colonization to the present. "Contains original letters and government publications such as constitutions, decrees, presidential and congressional messages, broadsides and pamphlets..."
Archive of Early American Images (Brown Univ.)
"A Database of pictures of the colonial Americas...based entirely on primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825."
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) is a digital library containing about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Digital images of each page can be searched or downloaded. There is some coverage of other parts of the world (British accounts or other works published or translated in English).
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection
Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries from Harvard's Widener Library.