Online resources & tools
Guides & reading lists
McGill’s Latin American & Caribbean History
University of Northern British Columbia’s Mexican, South and Central American, and Caribbean History
Library of Congress Research Guide’s Caribbean Studies - Research Guides at Library of Congress
- University of West Indies's Caribbean Online Research Resources
Digital collections
Caribbean communities in Canada
- Digital Library of the Caribbean - A cooperative of partners from in the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, and Europe providing users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
- Quebec's Caribbean Histories - a popular education project about Caribbean communities in Quebec.
- York University - Black and African-Caribbean Community in Canada - Online exhibition about Caribbean and Black community organizations and culture in Toronto, Ontario, and Canada.
Other collections
- Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History (Gale Primary Sources) - a primary source collection featuring letters, diaries, maps, reports and other documents from the 15th to the 20th century that document social, political, and economic topics in Latin American and Caribbean countries
- Caribbean Histories Revealed (National Archives - UK) - an exhibition of government documents from the 17th-20th century with themes around Caribbean identities, migration, the legacy of enslavement, and trade.
- Caribbean Literary Heritage - an open access resource that explores where to find writers’ papers, why literary archives matter and how we can preserve them, which writers we may have overlooked, and how writers today engage with the literary past.
- Caribbean Newspapers (part of Digital Library of the Caribbean) - full image scans of historical newspapers published in Caribbean nations and in the United States (Peurto Rico and Florida)
- Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera (Princeton University Library) - a collection of digitized archival material from Princeton's collections of Latin American ephemera
- Directory of Caribbean Digital Scholarship (CariDiScho) - Bibliography of digital resources for the study of the Caribbean. Includes digital mapping projects, exhibitions, periodicals, and blogs.
- Empire Online - Collection of manuscript, printed, and visual primary sources around the study of imperialism and enslavement, including content related to the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
- Kamau Brathwaite Remix Engine - YouTube channel featuring readings from the works of Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite.
- Latin American & Caribbean Digital Primary Resources - Database of open access digital collections about Latin America and the Caribbean managed by the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). Search by type of primary source, host institution or collection title.
- Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, & Iberian Online Free E-resources (LACLI) - Repository of openly accessibly online resources in Latin American, Caribbean, Latine, and Iberian studies that includes audiovisual material, books, ephemera, government documents, oral histories, periodicals, web archives, and other materials.
- Latin American history and culture: An archival record - Microfilmed records of colony of New Spain (17th-19th century).
- Latin American Travelogues - a digital collection based out of Brown University featuring travel accounts written in the 16th-19th centuries.
- Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice - Primary source collection about the history of enslavement, containing material about South America and the Caribbean.
- Smithsonian collections online - Gale primary sources collection of digitized material from the collections of the Smithsonian Museum. Includes significant content about Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
- UWI Mona Library Digital Collection - Collections of historical photos from the Special Collections of the Mona Library, University of West Indies (Jamaica)
Research centres
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) - Includes a research and data centre, educational resources, and library and archival collections