South American History

Resources in this category:

Chinese in Guyana: Their Roots
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~guycigtr/

"This website presents information about the Chinese in Guyana, beginning with their introduction to Guyana (then called British Guiana) as indentured immigrants between 1853 and 1879."

Conquistadors
http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/

A PBS overview of the conquistadors.

Economic History of Bolivia
http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/bolivia.htm

Explores the economic history of Bolivia from ancient times to the 21st century.

Environmental History of Latin America
http://www.stanford.edu/group/LAEH/index.html

An extensive bibliography of resources on the environmental history of Latin America, including Central America, the Caribbean and Mesoamerica. Provided by researchers at Stanford University.

Evita Peron Historical Research Foundation
http://www.evitaperon.org/

"The goal of the FIHEP is the recovery, historical investigation, and diffusion of the life and works of Senora Maria Eva Duarte de Peron and of her relevant contemporaries." Photos and essays on the life of Evita Peron.

Maya Art & Books
http://www.maya-art-books.org/

The goal of this website "is to facilitate academic access to scholarly information about Maya daily life 1000 years ago in Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, and Honduras. We aspire to fulfill this challenge through utilizing the potential of extensive photographic recording of the facts and artifacts of ancient civilizations of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica."

Mesoweb: An Exploration of Mesoamerican Cultures
http://www.mesoweb.com/

Links and articles devoted to ancient Mesoamerica and its cultures: the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacano, Zapotec, Mixtec, Toltec, Aztec and others. "We reserve the word Mayan for the language and the word Maya for the people and their culture, ancient and modern." Hosts the Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute. Also has some information about Peru, an encyclopedia of Mesoamerica, and a number of multimedia video exhibits.

The National Security Archive Latin America Projects
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/

This amazing site is an online repository for recently de-classified U.S. government documents. This collection contains 20th century documents pertaining to U.S. foreign policy and intervention throughout Latin America during periods of unrest, revolution, and war. The countries covered are Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Cuba and Guatemala. From the National Security Archive at George Washington University.