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Open Access Resources for the Americas
- Early Americas Digital ArchiveA collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820," including Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and French accounts of indigenous communities.
- Mapping Indigenous WorldsMapping Indigenous Worlds is a Mellon Global South Humanities Lab at the University of Virginia.
- Native WebResources for Indigenous Cultures around the World
- Tribal Nations MapTribal Nations Map: Our own names and locations, http://www.tribalnationsmaps.com/
- Indian CountryServing the Nations; Celebrating the People
- Tribal Writers Digital LibraryThe Native Writers Digital Text Project brings the works of Native poets and writers of fiction and other prose to readers world wide. Featuring out-of-print literary efforts of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and First Nations people of Canada, the project seeks to broaden the definition of “Native Writing” not only by focusing on writers who are not ordinarily anthologized, but also by publishing works which originally appeared in “ephemeral” sources and the periodical press, especially in those publications edited and produced by Natives.
- National Archives: Native American HeritageAmong the billions of historical records housed at the National Archives throughout the country, researchers can find information relating to American Indians from as early as 1774 through the mid 1990s. The National Archives preserves and makes available the documents created by Federal agencies in the course of their daily business.
- Institute for MesoAmerican StudiesThe Institute for Mesoamerican Studies (IMS) is a non-profit educational research institute dedicated to the study and dissemination of knowledge concerning the peoples and cultures of Mesoamerica (Mexico and northern Central America).
- Digging into Early Colonial MexicoA large-scale computational analysis of 16th century historical sources.
- Digital MesoamericaA platform for various digital projects related to Pre-Columbian and early colonial art, history, and language in Mexico and Central America, including maps, image galleries, and dictionaries of indigenous languages like Nahuatl and Mixtec.
- Proyecto de Estudios IndianosA research portal for primary sources and research projects related to indigenous history in Peru and Latin America. In Spanish.
- Glosas croniquensesDigital texts from the Spanish colonial period that include Indigenous language.
- MesoloreA bilingual resource for scholars and students of Mesoamerica," including interactive editions of codices, colonial-era documents, and tutorials on writing systems in Mesoamerica.
- Voice of the ShuttleResources for Minority Studies
- Empire Online This link opens in a new windowThis resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology.
UVA Databases
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America This link opens in a new windowThis resource contains material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world. The collection is truly vast, containing 130,000 volumes, over one million manuscript pages, 2,000 maps, 500 atlases, 11,000 photographs, and 3,500 drawings and paintings. The collection covers not only American Indian history, but archaeology, voyages, exploration and accounts of early America, the development of cartography, Philippine and Hawaiian history, and Central and South American history.
- American Indian Newspapers This link opens in a new windowAmerican Indian Newspapers aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.
- Ancestry Library Edition This link opens in a new windowAncestry Library Edition is an academic version of ancestry.com. There are images of original documents and includes narratives, oral histories, indexes and abstracts to other resources. Over 30,000 Ancestry.com record collections and 11 billion records available to search. Record collections span the 1500s–2000s.
- Anthropology Plus (1890-present) This link opens in a new windowFind articles, reports, and other materials on social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture and interdisciplinary studies.
- Australian Art Sales Digest This link opens in a new windowArt market information for Australian and New Zealand forthcoming auctions, past auction results from 1969 to the present, market statistics, news and opinion. Lists over 14,000 artists who have lived and/or worked in Australian or New Zealand.
- Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America This link opens in a new windowFormerly known as the Bibliography of Native North Americans.
Lists articles, books and other publications about the native peoples of North America published from the sixteenth century to the present. Lists all titles from the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America. Includes book reviews. - Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowFull-text of newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from 200 ethnic, minority, and native publications in the U.S., in English and in Spanish.
Relevant Databases
- America: History & Life (1964-present) This link opens in a new windowCovers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present with records from 2,000 English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.
- America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1991) This link opens in a new windowSearchable full text collection of US newspapers. For additional titles see 19th Century U.S. Newspapers.
- Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowFull text (PDF) of most US dissertations from 1997 on, many earlier works and some from outside the US plus some master's theses. Also lists all dissertations and theses from 1861 on from US universities and some works from Europe and Asia from 1637 on. Abstracts included after July, 1980.
See also Finding Dissertations - Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowFind articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present, published in over 2,000 journals from many countries. Includes book reviews. Does not include articles about the US or Canada. For these see America: History & Life.