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HILA 119: Central America: Popular Power, Political Change, and US Intervention : UCSD Special and Digital Collections

UCSD Special Collections with Central American Content

A Search for "Central America" in SCA's List of finding aids for manuscript collections identified the following materials:

  • The Margarita Melville Papers, comprised of personal correspondence, manifestos and other material gathered by  Margarita Melville, a Maryknoll nun who worked in Jacaltenango, Guatemala and was expelled from her order for her association with guerilla groups

 

  • The Gerald Warren Papers contain Warren's office files as the editor (1975-1995) of the San Diego Union. The materials include subject files, correspondence, department files, photographs, membership files, travel files, appointment calendars, telephone logs, and awards. Material relating to Warren's service as deputy press secretary is sparse and relates chiefly to his transition from that office to newspaper editor.

 

The following Digital Collections and Archived Websites also have Central American Material (which can be found through keyword searches strategies of the names of places, people, events, and organizations.

 

  • Herman Baca (A selection of documents illustrating the work and activities of Chicano activist Herman Baca and the Committee on Chicano Rights, 1964-2006)

 

  • UCSD's Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Resources

    Electronic resource created by Karen Lindvall-Larson, now retired Latin American Studies Librarian at UC San Diego. Consists of a series of volumes on selected Latin American countries that provide chronologies of elections since independence at the municipal, state, and federal levels and list sources of statistics for each election as identified.