This is a class presentation for HIS 357: The Cold War in Latin America. It mainly focuses on research resources for Cold War in Latin America that are available at the University of Miami Libraries and also inludes other resources that are freely available online.

1. Chella Vaidyanathan
History, Political Science, U.S. Govt./International Docs. Librarian
University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, FL

2. For citing government documents, take a look at the
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University of Memphis’ guide
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.h
tml
 Please also refer to the Style Manuals and Citation Tools
if you have questions about the citation style that your
professor recommended
http://www.library.miami.edu/research/userguides/style
manuals.html

3. To get started, try the following the subject terms in
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IBISWEB, the catalog and in the databases
Please remember that these only a few examples and you
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should use those subject terms that pertain to your research
topics
Subject Terms:
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Cuba – Foreign Relations – United States
United States – Foreign Relations – Cuba
United States – Foreign Relations – Latin America
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto

4. Declassified Documents Reference System (Post WWII
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through the 1970s)
Digital National Security Archive
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New York Times: Historical Newspapers Online (1851-2000)
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LexisNexis Congressional
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Historical Abstracts (1450-present)
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JSTOR
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HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
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Digital Library of the Caribbean
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Columbia International Affairs Online
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5. GPO Access – http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
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USA.gov (arranged by topic) –
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http://www.usa.gov/index.shtml
Declassified State Department and Other Agency Documents
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– http://foia.state.gov/SearchColls/CollsSearch.asp
Foreign Relations of the United States –
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/
Foreign Relations of the United States (UW Madison, 1860-
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1960) – http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/
The National Security Archive –
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/index.html
Central Intelligence Agency – https://www.cia.gov/
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6. Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project –
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http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=4&l2=18&l3=33
Economic Commission for Latin America The Caribbean –
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http://www.eclac.org/default.asp?idioma=IN
Inter-American Development Bank – http://www.iadb.org/
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Organization of American States –
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http://www.oas.org/main/english/
MERCOSUR – http://www.mercosur.int/msweb/
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Castro Speech Database –
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http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro.html
Association of Caribbean States – http://www.acs-aec.org/
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7. Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential
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Messages – http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/pm/sample2/
Latin American and Caribbean Govt. Documents Project
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(Cornell University) –
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/ladocshome.html
Latin American Government Documents Archive –
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http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/browse/index.
html
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) –
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http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University)
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– http://pdba.georgetown.edu/

8. Cold War International History Project –
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http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fus
eaction=va2.browse&sort=Collection&item=The%20Cold%2
0War%20in%20Latin%20America
The Chairman Smiles: Cuban Posters –
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http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/cubintro.php
Historicizing the Living Past in Latin America –
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http://www.historizarelpasadovivo.cl/en_contenido.html
Latin American Open Archives Portal –
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http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/laoap/
Oxford Latin American Economic History Database
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(OxLAD) – http://oxlad.qeh.ox.ac.uk/