Research Guides
Hispanic American History
Books / Electronic
Databases / Internet Resources
Bibliographic List (Rico): Latino/Chicano Histories
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Books
Books on Hispanic Americans can be found throughout the library collection. Those regarding history will usually fall in the 900’s. Try using search terms such as: hispanic, hispanic americans, latino, mexican americans, or puerto ricans. Search the MATC Library catalog - Webcat
Search for books in the MATC Libraries by entering a subject term or a keyword search:
Other Library Catalogs can also be accessed from MATC libraries web page.
Search the University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries catalog- MadCat which includes holdings at the Wisconsin State Historical Library & Archives. The MATC Libraries have an agreement with the UW-Madison Libraries to provide a UW Libraries borrowing card free of charge to MATC students. Stop in at any of the MATC Libraries to learn more and fill out the form.
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Electronic Databases
Academic Search Elite or
Expanded Academic ASAP or Academic Onefile
Use these academic databases to find articles from scholarly and history journals. Full-text titles include History Today, History Review, American History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Social History, and others. Includes many book reviews.
CQ Researcher
Congressional Quarterly provides information on government, politics and public policy. Fulltext essays on a particular subject offer background, pro, and con, as well as contextual information regarding the problem, issue, or event. Good source of information for topic papers on immigration or current issues.
Current Biography
More than 15,000 full text biographies and more than 9,400 obituaries | 1940- present
Discovering Collection
Covers the core curricular areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science and Social Studies, History and Culture.
JSTOR
Archive of scholarly and academic journals. Includes a Latin American collection. Good source for book reviews.
Proquest All Collections Search Proquest databases together, except for Proqest Historical Newspapers. Good source for book reviews.
Includes Proquest
Online Newspapers Database: Millions of articles originally published in national, regional, and local newspapers and Ethnic NewsWatch from Proquest: A full-text collection of ethnic newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Chicago Defender (1921-1975) Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), New York Times(1851 – three years prior to present year).
Full page images of the Chicago Defender , Chicago Tribune, New York Times. Complete with illustrations, advertisements, obituaries, etc. as they appeared in the newspaper at that time. Good choice for finding book reviews, especially for older titles.
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Internet Resources
Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-1995
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/congress/
Hispanic Heritage Teaching Resources Smithsonian Institution
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/hispanic_resources.html
LANIC
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Latin American National Information Center maintained by the University of Texas-Austin.
Latino Virtual Gallery
http://latino.si.edu/virtualgallery/LVGhome.html
The Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives website showcasing Latino contributions to America's history, arts and culture.
Pew Hispanic Center
http://www.pewhispanic.org
A nonpartisan research organization supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Information on demographics, immigration, politics, education, and issues.
Spain, The United States, & The American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/
Library of Congress bilingual site featuring maps, rare books, manuscripts, prints and photographs, and motion pictures relating to Spanish influence and interaction with other cultures existing in the geographic areas of North America, the Caribbean, and present-day Mexico between 1492-1898.
U.S. Census Bureau: Facts on
the Hispanic or Latino Population
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Citations
Chicago Style Citations
MATC Libraries History Research Guide
Knightcite
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php
This is a free citation-producing service (MLA , APA, and Chicago) created by the Heckman Library at Calvin College.
MATC Virtual Writing Center
http://matcmadison.edu/is/writingcenter/
The MATC Writing Center is available to all students at MATC who have writing needs. The Center hopes to provide support and assistance to students from all programs and departments in which teachers assign writing projects.
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