Americas Archive
Archive Description
The Americas collection strives to represent the full range and complexity of the Americas history by bringing together key documents that examines political and cultural relationships from a hemispheric perspective. Its goal is to represent the full range and complexity of a multilingual “Americas” that includes Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America from the beginning of colonization to the present.
Please visit our collaborative site Our Americas Archive Partnership
The Americas Digital Archive project is overseen by Geneva Henry, Executive Director of Rice's Center for Digital Scholarship and Dr. Caroline Levander, Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. Rice University's physical archival materials are housed at the Woodson Research Center, located in the Fondren Library.
Collections in this community
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Textual Documents [449]
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Translated Documents [94]
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Visual Materials [725]
Recent Submissions
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Spanish Catholic Missions and Border History
(2011-08-04)The Catholic missions of Spanish America are an integral part of U.S.-Mexico borderlands history. Using John Russell Bartlett’s Personal narrative of explorations & incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, volume 1, a 19th century document found in the Our Americas Archive Partnership, I discuss how the missions represent ... -
La madre mexicana: fragmento del libro, Las mujeres españolas, portuguesas y americanas
(2011-07-21)Este video es una lectura corta del libro Las mujeres españolas, portuguesas y americanas, con preguntas para reflexión para estudiantes de español. (This video provides a reading of a short Spanish excerpt followed by questions and vocabulary for Spanish students.) -
Introducción a un billete mexicano de diez pesos
(2011-07-08)Este video contextualiza a un billete de diez pesos mexicanos (1823) impreso sobre una bula católica (siglo 18), según la trayectoria de la historia de México. (This video contextualizes a ten pesos Mexican banknote (1823) printed on an eighteenth century Catholic bull, according to the timeline of Mexican history.) -
Journal of George Dunham, 1853
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U.S.S. Jamestown logbook
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Alexander Hobbs U.S. Civil War diary
(1862)Diary describes the author's volunteer service during the U.S. Civil War, including the Battle of Galveston, a prison stay in Houston, and patrol duty in New Orleans -
Diez pesos
(1823)
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