Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
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Latin Americanist Research Resources Project


Latin Americanist Research Resources Project. This library project seeks to create a prototype for fully connected collections for Latin American studies. Institutional participants in the project include the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and forty-four ARL Libraries.

Several features include:

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) - Provides access to the tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.

Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP) - Provides access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies.

Presidential Messages - Contains digital images of over 75,000 pages of presidential speeches from the early 19th century to the present from Mexico and Argentina.




- The Soldier In Later Medieval England
The Soldier in Later Medieval England is a searchable database of medieval soldiers, including muster rolls and treaty rolls for the years 1369 to 1453 and garrison records from the occupation of Normandy from 1415 to 1453. This is a well done project....

- The Giza Archives Project
The Giza Archives Project. This is a nice site documenting excavations on the Giza plateau sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1905 to 1942. It includes diaries, photographs, maps, plans, and sketches. This includes: - About 22,000 black-and-white...

- Corinth Computer Project
The Corinth Computer Project - A computerized architectural and topographical survey of the Roman era colony of Corinth, by the University of Pennsylvania. It includes a city plan (circa 150 AD), a historical background, and a glossary. There is also...

- Chronology On The History Of Slavery
Chronology On The History Of Slavery, 1619-1789 - This site contains a timeline of slavery in America from 1619 until "the end", reportedly in 1865 when the 13th amendment to the Constitution offered universal manumission and abolished slavery. The chronology...

- Internet History Sourcebooks
Internet History Sourcebooks An extensive set of collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts, maps, and articles on a wide variety of historical areas and subjects. Compiled by Prof. Paul Halsall at Fordham University. From the site:...



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