Resource Guide:
Culture of the Spanish Speaking World
Digital Open Education Resources
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- Latin American Network Info. Center
- Hispanic Reading Room - Library of Congress
- Political Database of the Americas
- Spain - Library of Congress Country Study: Spain
- Current and Recent Latin American News
- Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico
- The Library of Iberian Resources Online
- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - Mesoamerica and Central America
- Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
- Spanish and Latin America Culinary Terms
- Centre for Intercultural Learning
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- Directorio Web del Gobierno Mexicano
- Real Academia Española
- Biblioteca Nacional de España
- Estudios de Espantildeola: Musica regional
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Authors, Spanish
- Spain - Civilization
- Cookery, Spanish
- Spanish fiction
- Spanish fiction - Mexico
- Spanish language
- Spanish language - dialects
- Spanish folk songs
- Spanish Literature
- Spanish newspapers
- Spanish poetry
- Spanish proverbs
- Spanish drama
- Spain - geography
- Central America
- South America
- Mythology, Peruvian
- Holidays - Argentina
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Spanish in Context
- Spain Country Report
- Mexican Studies
- Latin American Journal of Economics
- Latin American Antiquity
- Cuba News
- Country Report. Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico
- Hispanic Issues On Line
- Hispanic Research Journal
- Hispanic Times Magazine
- Latin American Monitor: Mexico Monitor
- Latin American Music Review
- Latin American Perspectives
- Latin American Report
- Latin American Theater Review
- Acta mexicana de ciencias sociales
- Acta poetica
- Anales - Instituto Mexicano de Psiquiatria
- Arqueologia Mexicana
- Salud publica de Mexico
- Literatura mexicana
- Historia mexicana
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History | Credo Reference |
| Pop Culture Latin America! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle | Credo Reference |
| The Cambridge companion to the Spanish novel : from 1600 to the present | PQ 6138 .C144 2003 |
| Canciones españolas/Spanish folk songs | M 1779 .O647 C3 |
| Contemporary Spanish cultural studies | e-Book |
| La cuentista : traditional tales in Spanish and English | PS 3566 .I438 S63 1993 c.1 |
| Spain : the root and the flower : a history of the civilization of Spain | DP 48 .C87 |
| The sword and the sun; a story of the Spanish civil wars in Peru | PS 3513 .R4493 |
| Democracy in Mexico : peasant rebellion and political | F 1236 .L32 1995 |
| Doing business in Latin America and the Caribbean | HF 3230.5 .Z5 T85 1993 |
| South American mythology | REMOTE F 2230.1 .R3 O8 |
| The music of Argentina | ML 231 .L8 M8 |
| Variation and change in Spanish | e-Book |
| The City of musical memory: Salsa, record grooves, and popular culture in Cali, Colombia | e-Book |