Digitized materials from international partners in Cuba, South Africa, the Middle East and more.
Cuban materials:
Primary sources are documents from the time period, people, and events of the time under consideration. Primary sources can be:
A searchable database that provides access to materials such as letters, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California, including the UC campuses. Contains descriptions of over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections.
Documents from the British Foreign and Colonial Offices which cover the whole of South and Central America, plus the non-British islands of the Caribbean, from just after the final Spanish withdrawal from mainland America in the 1820s to the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. Includes coverage of revolutions, territorial changes and political movements, foreign financial interests, industrial and infrastructural development (including the building of the Panama Canal), wars, slavery, immigration from Europe, and and relations with indigenous peoples.
Look for directories of archives on the topic, country, or period that you are researching. The following are some examples of general Latin American resources, as well as specific sources on Mexico. Search web sites of institutions for the most recent information about collections, access to materials, and service.
These are a few examples of the many collections containing primary sources that are available to UCLA researchers. Additional microform collections are available at the Center for Research Libraries, and may be borrowed for lengthly periods of time.