Mexican, Mexican-American, Chicano, and Latinx History in the Archives

Nahuatl Manuscript: The original, a Nahua ritual manuscript, consists of 14 pieces of Mexican deer skin of varying length, glued together to form a continuous strip, 10 m. x 27 m., covered with pictograph writing on both sides; it is folded into 39 leaves. The facsimile manuscript is reproduced on a strip of thick paper folded accordion-style into 39 leaves.
F1219.56.B65 C63 2008

Murals from the Temple of the Tigers at Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, Mexico ; eleven block prints. By Octavio Medellin.
F1435.3.A7 M43 1947

A facsimile of a Maya manuscript in two parts, folded accordion fashion and commentary in German by H. Deckert and F. Anders with bibliographical references and preface also in English.
F 1435.3 .P6 C54 1975

A Royal Commentary addressing the origins of the Inca, their Kings, religion, laws, and government during peacetime and times of war. The text focuses on Inca culture before the arrival of the Spanish. 1723.
F 3442 .G234

Compendium of the history of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay: including the discovery, conquest and population of Rio de la Plata. 1895-1902.
F2721 .D46

A two-volume series of Mexican political leaders, including viceroys, emperors, residents, and other governors, from the era of Hernando Cortes to Benito Juarez. Published 1872-1873.
F1205 .R622

A register of political events and publications relating to the United States and Americas. Includes contemporary descriptions and current events of Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and the Iberian Peninsula. Relevant public documents published in this text are as follows:

- Treaty Between the United States and Brazil
- Message of President Vicente Guerrero to the Mexican Congress, proclamation of abolishing slavery
- Proclamation of the Liberator (Simon Bolivar) to the Colombians
- Proclamation of General Paez to the Venezuelans
- Speech of the Emperor of Brazil on the opening of the General Assembly
D2 .A5

A 15-volume set containing reprints of the Benito Juarez papers. Includes correspondence, documents, and speeches.
F 1233 .J885

A two-volume pictorial work depicting the history of Mexico from 1325 to 1900.
F 1226 .C37 1962

A four-volume pictorial work depicting the history of the Mexican Revolution and its impact on Mexico, 1900 to 1960.
F 1234 .C425

Gathered for the first time in this book, the forty-one letters and letter fragments written by two Mexican Texans, Captains Manuel Yturri and Joseph Rafael de la Garza, reveal the intricate and intertwined relationships that characterized the lives of Texan citizens of Mexican descent in the years leading up to and including the Civil War. The experiences and impressions reflected in the letters of these two young members of the Tejano elite from San Antonio, related by marriage, provide fascinating glimpses of a Texas that had displaced many Mexican-descent families after the Revolution, yet could still inspire their loyalty to the Confederate flag.
The letters, translated by José Roberto Juárez and with meticulous annotation and commentary by Thompson, deepen and provide nuance to our understanding of the Civil War and its combatants, especially with regard to the Tejano experience.
E 580 .G37 2011

As author José A. Ramírez demonstrates in To the Line of Fire!, the events of World War I and its aftermath would decisively transform the Tejano community, as war-hardened veterans returned with new, broadened perspectives. They led their people in opposing prejudice and discrimination, founding several civil rights groups and eventually merging them into the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the largest and oldest surviving Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States.
F 395.M5 R36 2009

Private First Class Felix Longoria earned a Bronze Service Star, a Purple Heart, a Good Conduct Medal, and a Combat Infantryman's badge for service in the Philippines during World War II. Yet the only funeral parlor in his hometown of Three Rivers, Texas, refused to hold a wake for the slain soldier because "the whites would not like it." Almost overnight, this act of discrimination became a defining moment in the rise of Mexican American activism. It launched Dr. Hector P. Garcia and his newly formed American G.I. Forum into the vanguard of the Mexican civil rights movement, while simultaneously endangering and advancing the career of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, who arranged for Longoria's burial with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. In this book, Patrick Carroll provides the first fully researched account of the Longoria controversy and its far-reaching consequences.
F 395.M5 C37 2003

A 5 volume set of photographs and biographies of WWII servicemen and servicewomen compiled in 1948. Mexican-American, Latino, and Hispanic veterans are throughout this set, and can be found via surnames or names in the index in volume 5.
F 385 .H5

A collection of oral histories that includes register of citizens of Brownsville, Texas who sacrificed their lives as a result of their military service to their country during WWII.
D 811.A2 A32 1999

Showcasing over sixty short stories, poems, speeches, and articles, Aztlan and Viet Nam is the first anthology of Mexican American writings about the U.S. war in Southeast Asia. The words are startlingly frank, moving, and immensely powerful, as they call to our attention an important and neglected part of U.S. history. Gathered from many little-known sources, the works reflect both the soldiers' experience and the antiwar movement at home. Taken together, they illustrate the contradictions faced by the traditionally patriotic Mexican American community, and show us the war and the grassroots opposition to it from a new perspective--one that goes beyond the familiar dichotomy of black and white America.
D S559.8.M39 A95 1999