La Guardia Newspaper (Primary Sources)

La Guardia

La Guardia was a U.S. Latine-ran newspaper that provides information on political and social issues affecting the Mexican American and Puerto Rican communities in Milwaukee.

Violetas del Anáhuac (Primary Sources)

Violetas del Anáhuac (Primary Sources)

Violetas del Anáhuac was a feminist weekly that emerged during the government of Mexican President Porfirio Díaz. Supporting Positivism, the weekly advocated for the instruction of women to promote “progress” and motherhood.

Variation between Mixtec languages (Assignment)

Variation between Mixtec languages (Assignment)

These assignments provide opportunities for students to learn and explore a few key concepts central to language documentation and description with real primary language documentation data from a 1977-1984 project studying lexical and morphosyntactic variation across the many Indigenous Mixtec (Otomanguean; Mexico) languages.

Presenting Temporal Research with TimelineJS (Platform Tutorial)

Presenting Temporal Research with TimelineJS (Platform Tutorial)

This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to create a project in TimelineJS, a free Google Sheet-based tool that helps you present temporal research, using historical events from the Wars of Independence in Mexico and archival materials preserved at the Benson Latin American Collection.

Genaro Garcia Manuscripts Collection (Primary Sources)

Genaro Garcia Manuscripts Collection (Primary Sources)

Manuscripts and archives acquired by Genaro García, Mexican historian, educator, lawyer, politician, and bibliophile, relating primarily to the history, politics, and culture of Mexico from the 16th-20th centuries, including archives of prominent Mexican political figures.