October 2020
Hispanic Division, Library of Congress
The Portuguese did not establish major settlements in North America during the colonial period, but they did become an important immigrant group during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.
This Library of Congress exhibit celebrates Portuguese communities in the United States. Primarily,it documents the migration of Portuguese people to America and their subsequent settlement in this new homeland. It also highlights the Portuguese contributions to the exploration and mapping of these unchartered lands.
See more on digital archives in our blog:
Investigar en tiempos de pandemia: archivos digitales para la historia de la agricultura y el medioambiente Stuart McCook, profesor de historia en la Universidad de Guelph, presenta algunas colecciones digitales sobre temas que van desde la historia del cultivo del cafe y de la cana de azúcar hasta la biodiversidad a nivel mundial.
Archivos digitales para historiadores: Investigar en tiempos de pandemia Con el fin de ayudar especialmente a los investigadores y estudiantes, este texto de Patricia Palma, investigadora en el Departamento de Ciencias Históricas y Geográficas de la Universidad de Tarapacá tiene como propósito poner a su alcance información sobre archivos digitales de bibliotecas en América Latina y el extranjero.
Una historia heterogénea “Creo que la historia global es una amalgama muy heterogénea de abordajes concomitantes y, no pocas veces, francamente antagónicos.” El historiador Diego Galeano, profesor en la PUC-Rio, expone algunas de las críticas inherentes al campo de la historia global, presenta los principales temas de investigación y autores del área y destaca los archivos digitales que pueden ser usados en investigaciones.
Research Stipend Program: Rockefeller Archive Center The research stipends are designed to support research by serious scholars in the collections located at the Rockefeller Archive Center. Many of the collections of the Rockefeller Archive Center are of great interest to Brazilian researchers.
Opening the archives project The project aims to digitize 100,000 U.S. government documents on Brazil from 1960-80 and make them available to the public on an open-access website.
Influenza digital archive The website is an open access digital collection of archival material related to the history of the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic in the United States.
Digitised mental health care archives The Wellcome Trust webstise holds online material on mental health, including information about UK institutions, patient diaries, artworks and photographs.
History of Medicine: Online Syllabus Archive The National Library of Medicine’s online syllabus archive collects college and university course programs in the history of medicine and related areas.
