ENCollections taggedLatin America History
Gabriel García Márquez
The papers of Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian-born Nobel Prize–winning author, journalist, screenwriter, and key figure in Latin American history and politics, consist of manuscript drafts of published and unpublished works, research material, photograph albums, scrapbooks, correspondence,...
The International La Sfera Challenge
Welcome to La Sfera Challenge, a two-week competition pitting international teams of scholars against each other in a race to transcribe three different copies of one text, Goro Dati’s fifteenth-century geographic treatise, La Sfera. Team USA will work with the version housed at the Yale...
La linda poblana: zarzuela en dos actos
An early 19th-century manuscript copy of an unpublished early 19th-century play by playwright Fernando Gavi?la. Fernando Gavi?la was an actor active in Mexico City in the 1790's and early 1800's, who also wrote at least one other play, "La lealtad americana, drama heroyco en un acto" (1796)....
Digitizing Peru's Print Revolution
This project is partially funded by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project. We have digitized nearly 5,000 pages of nineteenth-century Peruvian periodicals. The OCR on these is in need of correcting! Please help us to make clean OCRd PDFs widely available to interested researchers and...
Archivo Digital Etnográfico Atitlán
varios documentos relacionados a la historia del pueblo y área de Santiago Atitlán incluye: A1.20.Leg.1170 Folio 304 Mayorazgo de Sancho de Barahona
Recetas de Felicitas
Una collection de recetas peruanas de mi bisabuela. Agradecería mucho su ayuda para descifrar algunas palabras donde no puedo leer la escritura.
Comentarios Reales (1609)
Colección de fuentes relativas al Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616) y su obra, como el caso de los "Comentarios Reales" (Lisboa, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1609). Aquí se reúnen los documentos más importantes que permitan explicar y comprender mejor al autor, su obra y su perspectiva andina del...
Nueva Crónica (1615)
Colección de documentos relativos a Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1550-1616 aprox.) y su obra "Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno" (Guamanga [Ayacucho], 1613 [1615]). Se reúnen fuentes importantes para comprender mejor la obra, el autor y la perspectiva andina del mundo. Fuente: Biblioteca Real de...
Latin Transcriptions
Five images in two documents. I've been asked to translate the Latin - portions of them are in English, which I can construe, but I'd rather be certain on what the Latin reads as before I begin translation.
Indigenous Episteme
The purpose of this project is to carry out research focused on the ethnohistory of the religions of the Coahuilteco-speaking indigenous people who lived in southeastern Texas and northeastern Mexico, in the current Mexican states of Coahuila and Nuevo León, during the colonial period (18th...