Martina Will de Chaparro, Texas Woman’s University, September 2008

Audio/Video/Podcasts – all in English:

“Aliens in America” 53 min. podcast from 2008 by “The History Guys” covers US immigration history and present issues; though not specific to Mexican immigration, very helpful background and/or review for students
http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=74

“Hello Americans was a 12 episode show Orson Welles made as another
contribution to the war effort, and stems in part from his interest in
Latin and South American culture. “Hello Americans” has an episode on Mexico:
http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Hello_Americans

US-Mexican War site from KERA – includes documents and video clips from the series
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/index_flash.html

Alan Knight podcast on the Mexican Revolution (52 min.), at History at 33 1/3: http://www.history3313.com/iWeb/History3313.com/New%20Podcasts/41FC930F-97A7-4878-B1F0-388671A272E1.html

Democracy Now broadcast on Plan Mexico, July 2008
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/31/plan_mexico

English-language sites:

Precolumbian

Paris Codex – digital version of an ancient Maya hieroglyphic book called the Paris Codex.; original at Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; one of only four pre-Columbian Maya hieroglyphic manuscripts
http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/codex/

Interactive Humanities Site on Ancient Mexico – material culture focus
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/unknown/index.html?collectionVar=BorderStudiesStop&pageVar=1

Mesoamerican Photo Archive
http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~dhixson/

Mesoamerican Ball Game – interactive flashy site re. the ball game
http://www.ballgame.org/main.asp

Huejotzingo Codex – digitized
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr00.html#huex

Teotihuacan Mural Art: Assessing the Accuracy of its Interpretation, by James Q. Jacobs
http://www.jqjacobs.net/mesoamerica/teo_murals.html

Colonial

The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico
http://www.newberry.org/aztecs/

Women in World History on La Malinche – images and primary documents
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson6/lesson6.php?s=0

Vistas Visual Cultures of Spanish America 1520-1820
http://www.smith.edu/vistas/

Frontiers of Faith – Humanities Interactive site with essay by Dr. Stanley Hordes and material culture images
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/newspain/exhibit52.htm?collectionVar=BorderStudiesStop&pageVar=2

Exploring the Early Americas – Jay Kislak Collection, Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earlyamericas/

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz site – Dartmouth
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/

Castas Paintings – article by Ilona Katzew with digitized paintings
http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/laberinto/fall1997/casta1997.htm

Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries: Humanities Interactive site focusing on art history, images of material culture
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/splendors/

Colonial Mexican Art – Prof. Manuel Aguilar’s site; wonderful photos of everything from baroque churches to maps to funerary art
http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/bevans/colonial_art/

Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies – images, maps, codices, etc.
http://www.famsi.org/research/pohl/index.html

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico, ebook by Sherry Fields
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/fields/index.html

Women in World History on Race and Gender in Colonial Latin America – lesson plan and primary documents (several from 18th-cent. New Spain)
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/d/124/wwh.html

Analyzing Visual Sources featuring Codex Mendoza image, with Art Historian Dana Leibsohn, Smith College http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/analyzing/mcimages/analyzingimgintronf.html

AHA The Conquest of Mexico site – images, maps, primary sources, lesson plan
http://www.historians.org/tl/LessonPlans/ca/Fitch/contents.htm

Modern

Mexico From Empire to Revolution – Getty Research Institute site with images (postcards, albums, photos)
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/mexico/flash/english/index.html

The New Frontier – Time online re. the border
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010611/

National Security Archive – declassified government documents on Tlatelolco Massacre and other topics
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

Humanities Interactive Site on the Border and Texas
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/a_base_UD.html?collectionVar=TexasHistoryStop&pageVar=

Mexican-American War and the Media, Virginia Tech site – images, timeline, documents, links
http://www.history.vt.edu/MxAmWar/INDEX.HTM

Border Revolution 1920-1920, text by Cindy Baxman with period photographs from the collections of the San Diego Historical Society
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/projects/border/page01.html

Mexica Manuscripts
http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/awaztec.html

The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera – National Gallery of Art site
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/rivera/intro.htm

Day of the Dead site – nice images from around Mexico
http://www.dayofthedead.com/index.html

Mexican Migration Project – retablos, first-hand accounts, database, etc.
http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/databases/dataoverview-en.aspx

Border Battles: offers essays etc. on many sides of immigration debate in the US
http://borderbattles.ssrc.org/

New Americans – program site for Frontline, includes an interesting immigration quiz; not specific to Mexican immigration
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/

Beyond the Border – PBS site related to film of the same name, on immigration; includes video excerpts
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/beyondtheborder/story.html

Mexican War site from Interactive Humanities – material culture, paintings, etc. by UT Arlington
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/invasionyanqui/

English-Spanish bilingual Sites:

Corridos Sin Fronteras – Smithsonian site with audio, lyrics, lesson plans, etc.; site can be viewed in English or Spanish
http://www.corridos.org/

Zoot Suit Riots site from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/

Constitution of 1824 in Spanish and in English
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/text/1824index.html

Historical Text Archive (articles, photos, documents)
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=21

MEXonline page has a list of pointers to other pages with documents (1917 Constitution, Plan of San Luis Potosi etc) and interesting web sites with Mexico material.
http://www.mexonline.com/history.htm

Primary Documents of the Mexican Revolution, Our Lady of the Lake U. link
http://lib.ollusa.edu/netguides/mexico/mexrev.htm

Spanish-language sites:

Sor Juana digitized text Fama, y obras postumas (Madrid: Ruiz de Murga, 1700) – U. Bielefeld
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/delacruz/fama/

500 Años de Mexico en Documentos
http://www.biblioteca.tv/artman2/publish/1840-1849_42/index.shtml

Proyectos Revistas Literarias Siglo XIX
http://lyncis.dgsca.unam.mx/literaturasxix/revistas/presente/index.html

Colecciones Mexicanas (Archivo Franciscano, Revista literarias siglo
XIX, Españoles en México siglo XIX, Libros electrónicos)
http://www.coleccionesmexicanas.unam.mx/

www.paperofrecord.com
subscription service that allows searches in hundreds of thousands of  XIXth century Mexican newspapers and downloading PDFs of the actual pages you get hits on.

Monumentos Funerarios del Cementerio de Saucito San Luis Potosí, fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX
http://www.colsan.edu.mx/investigacion/historia/monumentos/index.htm

http://www.bibliojuridica.org/libros/libro.htm?l=121 This is the web version of Roman Iglesias Gonzalez, Planes Politicos, Proclamas, manifiestos y Otros Documentos de la Independencia de Mexico al Mexico Moderno, 1812-1940. This is by far the largest single collection of (largely political only) documents available on the web.

Hemeroteca Nacional in Mexico City
http://www.bibliog.unam.mx/hem/hemeroteca.html is digitalising some of its
most important newspapers

Fuentes y Documentos para la Historia de Mexico
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/fdm/

INAH – Internet Archive Flores Magón
http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=500&Itemid