Library Guide for HIST 300: Modern Mexico 1821-2009

 

Reference Sources

The Reference Collection is a great place to start your research. Reference books provide basic introductions to broad subject areas, unfamiliar concepts, ideas, events, people, and places and often contain bibliographies that identify major primary and secondary sources on a topic. The Reference Collection is located right behind the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of El Pomar Center. Use the Kraemer Library Catalog to locate more reference books, both in print and electronic formats.

REF F1234 .C67 2004	Mexico: an encyclopedia of contemporary culture and history
REF F1218.6 .A73 2001	Archaeology of ancient Mexico and Central America : an encyclopedia
REF F1204 .E539 1997	Encyclopedia of Mexico : history, society & culture
REF F1234 .H794 1996	Hispanic culture of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
REF F1218.6 .O95 2001	Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures: the civilizations of Mexico & Central America
REF F786 .B67 1983	Borderlands sourcebook: a guide to the literature on northern Mexico and the American Southwest
REF BL458 .E52 2006	Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America
REF F1235.5.A2 C35 1982	Mexican political biographies, 1935-1981
REF F1434 .H3	Handbook of Middle American Indians

CQ Researcher provides a good starting point for many topics.

...Each weekly issue deals with a controversial topic, providing an overview, bibliography, and pro/con editorials.
...Each issue contains a bibliography and provides ideas for narrowing research on broad topics. 

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search hundreds of multidisciplinary encyclopedias and specialized reference sources all at once.

 

Books

Kraemer Library Catalog
The online catalog that searches for books, movies and government documents at UCCS.

Prospector
A Colorado state wide library catalog that includes both public and academic libraries. An excellent resource, but it will take 3-5 business days for books to arrive.

WorldCat
WorldCat is a database of books and other materials from libraries worldwide. It contains millions of bibliographic records covering dates from before 1000 B.C. to the present. WorldCat is a great resource for identifying materials not held at Kraemer or in participating Prospector libraries. It is also a good source for identifying obscure and/or primary resources.

Looking for Primary Sources?

In order to find primary resources on the library catalog, it is helpful to know the Library of Congress Subject Heading for your topic. Subject headings are not always intuitive. For example:

...the subject heading for Mexican Revolution is: Mexico - History - Revolution 1910-1920

...the subject heading for Zapatistas is: Ejercito Zapatista De Liberacion Nacional Mexico

Look for subject headings with the following words at the end. You can also pair these words with keyword searches that you conduct.

• correspondence
• diaries
• interviews
• pamphlets
• personal narratives
• sources

Examples:
Mexico-History- Revolution 1910- 1920 Sources
Mexico-History- Revolution 1910- 1920 Personal Narratives

 

Articles

Article Databases

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America: History and Life EBSCOhost
A comprehensive bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Historical Abstracts EBSCOhost
A comprehensive bibliographic reference to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life); provides coverage of 2,000 journals published throughout the world.

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Expanded Academic ASAP*InfoTrac 1980-
Use this database to find information on Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences.

JSTOR*
Full-text of 117 core journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Coverage includes the entirety of each journal with the exception of the current five years.

Project MUSE* John Hopkins University
Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

WilsonWeb OmniFile Full Text Mega*H.W. Wilson 1982-
Contains indexing, abstracting, and full-text for everything that was in Education Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences Index, and Wilson Business Index. In addition, the Mega edition contains Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text.

Print Indexes

Readers Guide to Periodical Literature REF A13 R28
The print format of this classic index goes back to 1900. Indexing includes coverage of major news magazines that contain eyewitness accounts, interviews, speeches, etc.

Nineteenth Century Readers Guide 1890-1899 Ref AI3 R47
Similar to Readers Guide, but coverage includes earlier dates.

Pooles Index to Periodical Literature 1882-1908 Ref AI3 P7
Similar to Readers Guide, but coverage includes earlier dates

Newspapers

LexisNexis Academic
Full-text access to newspaper literature from around the world Coverage for each publication varies.

New York Times (1851-present)
Electronic access to the New York Times is available through the Pikes Peak Library District. To access this database remotely, you must use your public library card number and pin number.

Kraemer has the entire run of the New York Times (from 1851) and its corresponding indexes.
Older issues are maintained on microfilm:. MICROFILM AN1 N44
Index to the newspaper is located in the reference collection: REF AI21 .N44
Current issues are on the current newspaper shelves.

Google News Archive Search (formerly Paper of Record) Search and explore historical newspaper archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.

 

Primary Resources on the Web

Primary documents once available only in print and microfilm collections are becoming available in a digitized format on the World Wide Web from free websites or through subscription services. As with all information on the Web, users must evaluate the authenticity of these documents. Educational and government resources are often more reliable than personal websites. Here are examples of web sites that are focused on the History of Mexico.

Mexico

LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center provides access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. The site is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mexico: The Splendor of 30 Centuries
Mexican Presidential Messages
Peasant Social Worlds and Their Transformation Web site is sponsored by the University of Manchester (UK); major section on Mexico

U.S. Mexican War

U.S. Mexican War (maps, photographs, links, documents)
U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-48 (Guide to PBS series)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago

The Empire and the Liberal Republic

Mexico: From Empire to Revolution (Marvelous photographic images from the Getty Research Institute, 1857-1910)
Charlotte's Letters and Photographs Letters written by Charlotte of Belgium (1840-1927), also known as Carlota, Empress of Mexico, and a selection of photographs from one photo album featuring images of Emperor Maximilian and members of the Mexican military from the Charlotte and Maximilian Collection, Rice University.

Mexican History 1910-1920

The Mexican Revolution: Conflict in Matamoros Photographs from the Robert Runyan Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Excerpt from Barbarous Mexico (John Kenneth Turner)
Plan de Ayala (1911) English
Postcards of the Mexican Revolution, John Hardman (outstanding reproductions)
Historical Figures in the Mexican Revolution
Maps of the Mexican Revolution
Ricardo Flores Magon
Mexican Constitution 1917

North American Free Trade Agreememt

Interlibrary Loan

ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan) may be used to request:

• books that are not owned by Kraemer Family Library or not available through Prospector
• journal articles not available through Kraemer.

 

Need more help?

Contact the Kraemer Library REFERENCE DESK at 719-255-3295 or e-mail the desk at refdesk@uccs.edu
Or contact Sue Byerley: 719-255-3290; sbyerley@uccs.edu