History at UIUC
For more resources for historical research, visit the History, Newspaper & Philosophy Library (HNPL). You can consult their many helpful guide and tutorials or search LibGuides using the tags "history" or "historical research."
For an excellent introduction to historical research, see the HNPL's Introduction to Historical Research
RefWorks
Make your life easier: use RefWorks! Refworks is an online database that let's you store bibliographic citations from library catalogs and databases, such as MLA, generate annotated bibliographies and citations in a wide range of citation styles and share bibliographies with classmates and colleagues through RefShare.
Gran Enciclopedia de España
It's a meticulous scientific research encyclopedic in work in Spanish language developed over twenty years, it has been designed and written by leading specialists and contributors throughout Spain, including two Nobel prizes. The GEE focuses exclusively in Spain and its historical presence in other territories of the world, especially in Latin America, and many aspects related to the history and culture of its diverse people are discussed in detail and depth, two characteristics that make it a unique resource of this kind.
· More than 180 000 articles
• More than 50,000 images and videos
• Great number of links connecting related articles
• Thousands of bibliographic references
• Contents updated on a daily basis
• Advanced search tool with multiple navigation options
• Dictionary of la Real Academia Española.
Good starting points
Q. 980.00321 C1441992 (ML&L Lib. Ref.)
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
972.9003 En19 (Undergrad. Lib. and Ref.Lib.)
Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. 3 Vols.
Q. 980.003 EN19 (Undergrad. Lib. and Ref. Lib.)
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture. New York : C. Scribner’s Sons, 1996. 5 Vols.
Q. 320.9803 En192 (Fef. Lib.)
Encyclopedia of Latin American politics. Westport, Conn.: Oryx Press, 2002.
303.609803 K828h (Hist. Lib)
Historical dictionary of the "dirty wars." Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Latin America: a guide to the historical literature
016.98 C639l (ML&L Lib. Ref.)
Latin American studies: an annotated bibliography of core work. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2002.
Q. 980.003 L349 (ML&L Lib. Ref.)
Latinoamericana : enciclopédia contemporânea da América Latina e do Caribe. São Paulo, 2006.
Q. 972.01 Ox25 (Ed. & Soc. Sci. Lib.)
The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures: the civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Oxford, 2001. 3 Vols.or Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
Q. 980.00202 H383r (Hist. Lib & Undergrad. Lib)
A reference guide to Latin American history. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2000.
Wikipedia Beware: Not all in Wikipedia is correct! Nor is it a scholarly resource.
LAC Listservs
Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Collections and Services
Antonio Sotomayor, PhD
Librarian for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
337A Main Library
1408 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217)300-4812
Fax: (217) 333-2214
Email: asotomay@illinois.edu
Paula Mae Carns, PhD
Librarian for Latin American and Caribbean Literature
200 South Main Library
1408 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801 U.S.A.
Phone: (217) 333-0076
Fax: (217) 333-2214
Email: pcarns@illinois.edu
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