HIST F341 Latin America: Conquest and Empire 

Encyclopedia of Exploration (Reference G80 .H68 2003) entries for specific explorers with extensive lists of additional resources

Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture, 2 vols (Reference F1204 .E539 1997) includes entries written by scholars and a select list of sources at the end of each entry.

Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (Reference JC491 .E63 1998) provides scholarly articles on the Mexican Revolution and Emiliano Zapata with a brief listing of additional resources.

Latin America and the Caribbean: A critical guide to research sources (Reference F1408 .L3225 1992) provides an introduction to the nature of research and recent research trends in each discipline, followed by a guide to the principal sources for research.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures

Slavery

Black Slavery in the Americas: An interdisciplinary bibliography 1865-1980, 2 vols (Reference HT861.S6 S63 1982)

Women

Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travelers (G200 .R65 1990) recounts the adventures of some 400 travelers, together with full bibliographical details of all the books they produced.

Using IUCAT Catalog (Indiana University's online library catalog), you can locate more books in Helmke Library in either print or electronic format. Search by your historical figure. If the result list is too large, add a keyword such as a country or key historical event that relates to your person.

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Subject will search for important words in the official Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

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Handbook of Latin American Studies

• annotated bibliography on Latin America covering the social sciences and the humanities
• 1936 to present

JSTOR

• Find full text scholarly articles in journals
• Typically, coverage of a journal starts with its first issue and ends 2-7 years ago
• Remember to narrow by discipline and type of article to get fewer results

MLA International Bibliography

• Provides citations to research in literature, literary criticism, linguistics, modern languages, drama, folklore, film and video, and other communicative behavior.
• International coverage of 4,000 journals as well as books, book chapters, proceedings, and dissertations
• 1926 to present

Accounts of Nineteenth-Century South America: An Annotated Checklist of Works by British and United States Observers (Reference F2223 .N39 1969) arranged chronologically and by region.

17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

• full text collection that contains newspapers, broadsides and news pamphlets published in London
• 1604 to 1804

Periodicals Archive Online

• full text of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences
• 1665 to 2000

Sabin Americana

Travel Logs

In the First Person

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

Historical Text Archives This megasite includes links to full-text primary and secondary source materials arranged by region and topic.

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC), especially its Social Sciences in Latin America-History site and Latin American Studies site LANIC's primary objective is to facilitate access to Internet-based information on, from, or about Latin America. Its target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region.

The most frequently recommended style guide for history students is Kate Turabian's A Manual For Writers Of Term Papers, Thesis, And Dissertations. The latest edition of Turabian is located at the Service Desk (Reference LB 2369.T8 1996). A sample of Turabian style footnotes is available on the Web.

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