HIS 357: THE COLD WAR IN LATIN AMERICA (10/09/07)
Chella Vaidyanathan History, Political Science, U.S. Govt./International Docs. LibrarianUniversity of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, FL
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Relevant Databases Declassified Documents Reference System
(Post WWII through the 1970s) Digital National Security Archive New York Times: Historical Newspapers
Online (1851-2000) LexisNexis Congressional Historical Abstracts (1450-present) JSTOR HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Digital Library of the Caribbean Columbia International Affairs Online
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Foreign Relations of the United States – http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/
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The National Security Archive – http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/index.html
Central Intelligence Agency – https://www.cia.gov/
International Documents & Other Digital Resources
Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project – http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=4&l2=18&l3=33
Economic Commission for Latin America The Caribbean – http://www.eclac.org/default.asp?idioma=IN
Inter-American Development Bank – http://www.iadb.org/
Organization of American States – http://www.oas.org/main/english/
MERCOSUR – http://www.mercosur.int/msweb/ Castro Speech Database –
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro.html Association of Caribbean States –
http://www.acs-aec.org/
International Documents & Other Digital Resources (Continued) Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine
Presidential Messages – http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/pm/sample2/
Latin American and Caribbean Govt. Documents Project (Cornell University) – http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/ladocshome.html
Latin American Government Documents Archive – http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/browse/index.html
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) – http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University) – http://pdba.georgetown.edu/
International Documents & Other Digital Resources (Continued)
Cold War International History Project – http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=Collection&item=The%20Cold%20War%20in%20Latin%20America
The Chairman Smiles: Cuban Posters – http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/cubintro.php
Historicizing the Living Past in Latin America – http://www.historizarelpasadovivo.cl/en_contenido.html
Latin American Open Archives Portal – http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/laoap/
Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD) – http://oxlad.qeh.ox.ac.uk/