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General Information

About the Division
The Hispanic Reading Room
Interlibrary Loan
Library Security
Photoduplication
Special Search Form

 

About the Collections

Catalog of Hispanic materials

Genealogy

Hispanic, Portuguese, and Caribbean collections
Online Collections, Presentations & Exhibitions
Guides & Finding Aids

Collections in other Divisions

Featured Sites:
Portals to the World
links to International resources (Iberia, Caribbean, Latin America)

Spain, the U.S., and the American Frontier

Handbook of Latin American Studies Online, an annotated, searchable online bibliography on Latin America

New Handbook Interface containing items from vol 50 (1990) to the present.

The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures

• Upcoming Events
  
  
• Hispanic Heritage Month, 2008
• Webcasts
  • Kislak Symposium on Pirates and Corsairs:
    Sabrina Guerra, "Drake and Rogers: Successful Heroes or Frightful Bandits";
    Franklin Knight, "Pirates of the Caribbean: An Irregular Form of Imperial Expansion."
    
    Peter Earle. "The British Navy and the War Against the Pirates."
    
    Kris Lane, "Will the Real Pirates Please Stand Up? Provenance and Perspectives in the History of Piracy"
    Carmen Boullosa, "Why I Love Pirates."
    
    Nina Gerassi-Navarro, "Pirating Nations, Building Fictions."
    
    
• Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake
• Exhibit on the Cultures & History of the Americas, the Jay I. Kislak Collection
• First book published in New Mexico (in 1834) now online
• Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase
  
  

Databases & Electronic Resources
(Many are only available to users in the reading room)

Hours:

Weekdays: 8:30am - 5:00pm
Closed Weekends
and Federal Holidays

 

Reference Assistance
and Contact information

 

Location:

Thomas Jefferson Bldg., Room LJ240
101 Independence Ave, SE
Washington, D.C. 20540-4850

Map showing location

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