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US and Latin America Map

US-Latin American Relations Research Sites

Created and Maintained by Richard W. Slatta NCSU Logo
Students: Use the links below to research thought questions and other projects for your history courses. Your syllabus will include references to the topics listed below. Suerte! [Good luck!] Not to worry. You will NOT be using all these links. Browse those not assigned to learn more about Latin America.
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Links
  1. Search Engines and General History Sites
  2. General Help with Historical Research and Writing
  3. Latin American History Reference Works
    4. Course-related Sites for HI 215, 216, 453,
  4. Pre-Columbian & Colonial Latin America: HI 215
  5. Latin America Since 1826: HI 216
  6. US-Latin American Relations: HI 453
push pinUS-Latin American Relations: HI 453
Western Hemisphere
  1. Time Line of US-Latin American Relations
    Official Documents and Research Assistance
  2. US Agency for International Development Programs, Social and Economic Data
  3. Organization of American States
  4. National Archives and Records Administration
  5. Caribbean Studies Page: Duke Univ.
  6. United States State Dept. Documents
  7. Organizations that research International and US-Latin American relations
    From Monroe to Manifest Destiny, 1823-1880s
  8. Monroe Doctrine, Dec. 1823
  9. Manifest Destiny Excellent essays and documents.
  10. Amistad Research Center, Tulane University
  11. Links to The Amistad Revolt and Trial, Documents and History
  12. The Original Amistad Affair and the Modern Plagiarism Charges
  13. National Archives and Records Administration: Primary Souces on the Amistad Case
  14. Find Law Text of the Amistad Case, with additional links
  15. US-Mexican War (1846-48): Documents, Testimonies, Analysis
  16. Maps, pictures, and documents from PBS series on the Mexican War
    Spanish-American War, 1898
  17. Narrative of the war and aftermath by Lincoln Cushing
  18. Mark Twain supportingthe War
  19. President William McKinley and the War
  20. The War in Perspective: New York Public Library
  21. Exhibit by the Hispanic Division, Library of Congress
  22. The War in Motion Pictures: Library of Congress
  23. Tomás Estrada Palma, Cuba's First President, Online Archive, University of Miami - Otto G. Richter Library - Coral Gables, Florida
    Intervention and Investment, 1880s-1945
  24. Building the Panama Canal
  25. Panama Canal
  26. Brief History of the Panama Canal
  27. Java Animation showing passage of a ship through the Panama Canal
  28. US Intervention in Latin America
  29. The Age of Imperialism
  30. US versus Augusto C. Sandino in Nicaragua
    Cold War, 1945-1990
  31. History of the Organization of American States
  32. United Fruit Company and Guatemala
  33. Communism in the Americas Article by Roy R. Rubottom, Jr. (1958 anti-communism propaganda from the Eisenhower administration). Excellent example of the Cold War mentality.
    Cuba, Bay of Pigs, Missile Crisis
  34. A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime This once-secret CIA plan details the measures President Eisenhower authorized in March, 1960, to undermine the Revolutionary government.
  35. The CIA in Latin America
  36. Inspector General's Survey of the Cuban Operation - October 1961 Secret report of the CIA's many failures in planning and executing the Bay of Pigs invasion. Declassified in 1998.
  37. 14 Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath: FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1961-1963, Volume XI
  39. The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962
  40. "Cuba's Fate Linked to the United States" A Special Washington Post Report
  41. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
  42. Cuban Missile Crisis Summary
  43. Cuban Missile Crisis In-depth
  44. Kennedy Administration and Cuba Volume X, Cuba 1961-1962; Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath
  45. Cuban Missile Crisis Simulation
  46. KENNEDY AND CASTRO: THE SECRET QUEST FOR ACCOMMODATION Documents of the National Security Archive
  47. "Open Wounds: 40 Years After the Bay of Pigs: Cuba recalls defeat of 'imperialism'" by Mary Murray An MSNBC News Report. See the 8-minute video with historical footage.
    Cold War 1970s----
  48. US and the Caribbean Basin
  49. Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973
  50. Problems in Modern Guatemala (1995)
  51. US Military "Civic Action" in Central America
  52. ELECTRONIC BRIEFING BOOK: U.S. POLICY IN GUATEMALA, 1966-96 Documents of the National Security Archive
    Current Inter-American Problems
  53. US Intervention in Panama and Haiti
  54. Gateway to critiques of current affairs in the Americas
  55. US and Latin America: Policy Report of 1995 Issues
  56. US Policy toward Colombia/ Colombia's Drug War
  57. Current Problems of Peace, Women, Conflict, Ecology, Labor
  58. Links to Organizations & Problems in Contemporary Latin America
    Human Rights Concerns
  59. Human Rights Concerns in Latin America
  60. Military Interventionism in Latin America
  61. Amnesty International: 1997 Report on human rights in the Americas
  62. U.S. State Dept. Country 1998 Reports on Human Rights Practices
  63. Human Rights Watch Americas, Human rights in Latin America
  64. Institute for Global Communications As with all sources, use your critical evaluation skills.
  65. ConflictNet, a division of the Institute for Global Communications
    NAFTA and Economic Development
  66. "The Failed Experiment: NAFTA at Three Years"
  67. NAFTA Study Center
  68. Clinton Administration NAFTA Report
  69. World Bank Home Page
  70. IMF: International Monetary Fund
  71. WTO: World Trade Organization
    Sites Critical of Globalization, IMF, World Bank, WTO
  72. For additional links, see "Life and Debt," A Film By Stephanie Black
  73. International Forum on Globalization
  74. World Trade Observer
  75. Americas.org On-line home of the Resource Center of the Americas
  76. Z Magazine: Global Economic Crisis Critique of IMF and World Bank
  77. The 50 Years Organization
  78. Bretton Woods Project
  79. Global Exchange, (800) 497-1994
  80. Alliance for Democracy (781) 894-1179
  81. Campaign for Labor Rights (202) 544-9355
  82. Essential Action (202) 387-8030
  83. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (612) 870-0453
  84. Institute for Policy Studies (202) 234-9382
  85. International Forum on Globalization (415) 229-9350
  86. Jobs with Justice (202) 434-1106
  87. JustAct (415) 431-4204
  88. Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (800) 316-2739 ć
  89. Public CitizenÍs Global Trade Watch/Citizens Trade Campaign ć(202) 546-4996
  90. Student Alliance to Reform Corporations
  91. Third World Network, (Malaysia)
  92. TransFair USA (510) 663-5260
  93. Transnational Research and Action Center (415) 561-6568
  94. United Students Against Sweatshops
  95. Women's EDGE: Economic Development and Global Equality (202) 884-8396
  96. Women's Environment and Development Organization (212) 973-0325
  97. World Bank Bond Boycott Campaign, (202) 299-0020
  98. Global Exchange Campaigns - Brazil
  99. CorpWatch - Holding Corporations Accountable
  100. Boycott World Bank Bonds Petition
  101. Boycott World Bank Bonds or call +1 202 2990020
  102. Survival Internatiional or call +44 (0) 2072421441
  103. Project Underground or fax +1 510 7058983
  104. Jubilee USA Network
  105. Friends of the Earth
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