InfoGuides: Comparative Politics & Area Studies: Research The Americas

United States

For resources on the United States, please see the American Politics Infoguide.

Americas

Regional

Hispanic American Periodicals Index This link opens in a new window
Multi-subject index to periodical literature on Latin America and Hispanics in the United States since 1970. Coverage includes everything from political, economic, and social issues to the arts and humanities. Tutorial for the Hispanic American Periodicals Index database.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) This link opens in a new window
Provides a selected annotated bibliography of scholarly monographs, journal articles, conference papers, books chapters and electronic resources. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the Handbook covers a range of disciplines including anthropology, art, economics, geography, government & politics, history, international relations, literature, music, philosophy and sociology.
View a tutorial on this database here.
Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
Annotated bibliographies on research topics. Mason's Access includes Latin American Studies and Atlantic History. Ideal for students writing literature reviews.
Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944 This link opens in a new window
This collection includes cables, memoranda, correspondence, reports and analyses, and treaties. Organized by country, it sheds light on the foreign relations interactions between Central American and South American countries. In the Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic are represented.
Confidential Print: Latin-America, 1833-1969 This link opens in a new window
Resource for Latin American history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Covers the revolutions, territorial changes, political movements, foreign financial interests, industrial and infrastructural development (including the building of the Panama Canal), wars, slavery, immigration from Europe, and relations with indigenous peoples. Tutorial for the Confidential Print: Latin-America, 1833-1969 database.
World Newspaper Archive, Latin American Newspapers, Series 1 This link opens in a new window
Provides more than 35 fully searchable newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere. Latin American Newspapers offers coverage of the people, issues, and events that shaped this region between 1805 and 1922.
World Newspaper Archive, Latin American Newspapers, Series 2 This link opens in a new window
Deepens coverage of important countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico (World Newspaper Archive, Latin American Newspapers, Series 1) and extends into countries not represented in Series 1 such as Bolivia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Belize. Covers 1822-1922.
Gale Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century This link opens in a new window
Provides historical and primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean. Access original manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, ephemera, and more. Some foreign language material.
Tutorial for the World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean database.
Formerly World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean
Latinamerica Press This link opens in a new window
Independent and reliable information and analysis about Latin America and the Caribbean with an emphasis on the problems and situations that affect the human rights of vulnerable and marginalized sectors of the population.

National

Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
Coverage includes US policy toward Chile, Guatemala, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua.

Data & Statistics

Sources listed under the Global tab cover all countries and regions. Resources listed here are specific to these countries and region.

CEPALSTAT databases and statistical publications
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL)
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
LANIC: Statistics
Latin American Network Information Center's (LANIC) selection of resources including: statistical sources, research centers and individual country information.

Latin American Public Opinion Project This link opens in a new window
Commonly referred to as LAPOP. Every two years LAPOP carries out the AmericasBarometer survey, which currently covers 26 nations including all of North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Each year it publishes dozens of high quality academic studies and policy-relevant papers.

Latinobarómetro
An annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants.
Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL)