Pitt librarians have created several other LibGuides that may help you with your research for this project. Here are links to some of them:
The University of Pittsburgh is home to the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) on the Pittsburgh Campus. The University Library System contains a premier collection of resources dedicated to Latin American Studies. Although most items can be found through PITTCat+ students doing research in the area of Colonial Latin American History are encouraged to visit their webpage and that of the Center for Latin American Studies.
You may also find internet resources useful for your paper, but you will need to be extra careful in evaluating these resources.
This guide is available within the Millstein Library site. You can copy and paste the information into a Word document, or print it out to refer to as you examine your sources.
Your research may lead you to investigate both primary and secondary resources.
Primary resources are the basic evidence for any good research project, and can come in many formats: documents from archives, interviews or eyewitness accounts, newspaper articles, video footage, etc. For example, if you were examining the political relationship between the United States and Latin America during the early twentieth century, you might look at primary sources such as diary entries, correspondence and/or interviews given by the key political figures of that time period.
American Foreign Policy: The Twentieth Century in
Documents
This book is a compilation of many primary
resources, including speeches and other
correspondence.
Newspapers can be an especially valuable primary resource. Pitt has access to newspaper articles from all over the world. For an overview of what is available, check out the Newspapers @ Pitt LibGuide. The Latin American Resources @ Pitt LibGuide also has an entire tab devoted to Latin American Newspapers, and includes newspapers available at Pitt as well as elsewhere.
For more information about Primary Resources available at Pitt, specifically those related to Latin American Studies, consult this guide from Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies.
Secondary resources are also valuable to use as sources for your paper, and are works that interpret, analyze, and often synthesize primary source materials to give a broader understanding of a certain topic. These may come in the form of scholarly books or journals. They often cite primary source materials, but are a step removed from those events.
U.S.-Latin American Relationships
This book is an example of a secondary resource: a
scholar provides students with an historical overview
of relations between the U.S. and Latin America.