Scholarly Web Sources

Tutt Library History Database Links – Periodical Databases, Fulltext sources etc.

http://www.ColoradoCollege.edu/Library/Reference/History.html

Library of Congress Exhibit – 1492 – Primary Source links

http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html

Primary documents – America and Voyages of Discovery

http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/primary.html

Sources for Advanced Research in Latin American Studies

http://sterling.holycross.edu/departments/history/alauria/advanced/

Digital Librarian- Latin American Resources

http://www.digital-librarian.com/latinamerican.html

Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/hisp.html

Mexican Archives project at Univ. of Texas. Site may suggest topics or names for further research. Not as helpful for direct access to primary sources.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/Benson/Mex_Archives/Collection_list.html

Primary Source links – University of Texas. Exploration period and later.

http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/history/

Fordham – Primary Source links. Good 19^th Century Latin American links

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook32.html

H-Net – Humanities and Social Sciences Online. Search page indexed scholarly book reviews, discussion logs and websites: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/search/ :

Bibliography on the History of Ideas in Latin America

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~latam/bibs/bibideas.html

H-South - Bibliographies, journals, etc

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~south/bibs/slavebib.html

H-LatAm - international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~latam/

Latin American History Resources – Latin American Information Center

http://info.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/history/

Latin American - Pre-Columbian and the Encounter

http://www.unl.edu/LatAmHis/PreClinks.htm

The Computerized Information Retrieval System (CIRS) on Columbus and the Age of Discovery in 1989. CIRS is a text retrieval system containing over 1100 text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches, official calendars and other sources relating to various encounter themes

http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/

Collection of links to primary source documents on the Conquest

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook08.html#The%20Conquest%20and%20Exploitation%20of%20the%20Americas

• William Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico
• Hernán Cortés, Second Letter to Charles V, 1520
• The Meeting of Moctezuma and Cortes, 1521
• Bibliography on Hernán Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo
• Pedro de Cieza de León, Chronicles of the Incas, 1540
• Peruvian Chroniclers writing in the early colonial period
• The "Inca" Gracilaso de la Vega
• Two Documents from the Reign of Philip II
• Cabeza de Vaca, Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America

Historical Map Collections:

• Colonial Era Maps
• Cartographic Images (from ancient times to 1500)
• Historical Map Web Sites
• Museo de Mapas Antíguos
• Historical Maps of the Americas (The Perry-Castana Collection, University of Texas, Austin)
• Links to Historical Maps (collected by Matthew White)
• Historical and Political Maps of the Modern Age
• 1562 Map of America by Diego Gutierrez