HIS 357: THE COLD WAR IN LATIN AMERICA (10/09/07)

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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

U.S. Government Resources GPO Access – http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html USA.gov (arranged by topic) –

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Documents – http://foia.state.gov/SearchColls/CollsSearch.asp

Foreign Relations of the United States – http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/

Foreign Relations of the United States (UW Madison, 1860-1960) – http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/

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/