Latin American History

Digital manuscripts, photographs, letters, maps and other resources held in the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection.

Representing the full range and complexity of a multilingual “Americas” that includes Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America from the beginning of colonization to the present.

Contains information on almost 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Documented the response of the Tampa Spanish immigrant community to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

Over 30,000 maps and images; the collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials.

A digitized collection of selected maps, courtesy of the University of Alabama.

An easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.

Collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964.