A collection of on-going projects to digitize original and rate materials. Includes sections with maps, newspapers, and images and documents related to Vodou.

LANIC's site provides research and academic resources, as well as sources on art, music and foodways from Latin America and the Caribbean.

The World Digital Library is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and partner libraries, archives, and educational and cultural institutions from the United States and around the world. The project brings together on a single website rare and unique documents – books, journals, manuscripts, maps, prints and photographs, films, and sound recordings – that tell the story of the world’s cultures.

This online exhibit hosted at Northeastern University features the full text of a dozen published narratives.

This site provide a sample of thousands of photographs relating to Latin America and the Caribbean held Southern Methodist University's DeGolyer Library.

"Calendars" are lists, abstracts , or summaries of official documents. These transcripts and extended abstracts of material in the Public Record Office cover topics such as land grants, slave trade, piracy, agriculture, boundary disputes, fisheries, and foreign relations with the French, Spanish, Dutch, and Native Americans. Through British History Online. "Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies, 1574-1739" is also available in the Performing Arts and Media department as a CD-ROM

The Cuban Heritage Collection is a repository for primary and secondary sources of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora from colonial times to the present maintained by the University of Miami Libraries.

The Fidel Castro Speech database contains the full-text translations of speeches, interviews, and press conferences of Fidel Castro from 1959 to 1996. The collection is based on the records of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency responsible for monitoring broadcast and print media in countries throughout the world. These records are in the public domain.

This site offers select archival and manuscript materials, books, and periodicals held by the Cuban Heritage Collection and housed at the University of Miami Libraries.

The Vodou Archive: Curating and Sharing the Sources of Vodou Religion and Culture is maintained by the George A. Smathers LIbraries at the University of Florida.

This 1927 compilation film reveals the story of the Panama Canal construction, which Theodore Roosevelt considered one of his most valuable contributions to foreign affairs. Most prominent views are of the need for building the canal, the early attempts, the actual construction, and finally the canal in operation. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a digital file.

This collection from Brown University offers accounts written in the 16th-19th centuries. Browse by country.

Access Harvard's Widener Library and its Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries. Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico are the countries most heavily represented in this collection.

This collection of Harvard sponsored expeditions includes maps, photographs, published materials, in addition to field notes, letters and manuscripts for Latin America and the Caribbean from 1626-1953.