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Southwest Studies Databases

American Memory, Library of Congress This link opens in a new window Excellent site for access to digitized primary sources and hard-to-find published works. Includes extensive collection of New Mexico and western materials. Using the "browse" screen, users can browse by subject, time period, format, or place.
American West This link opens in a new window Material digitized from the Graff Collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Includes unique manuscripts, broadsides, and other ephemera, maps, and rare printed works ranging from 1722 to 1939, with the heaviest concentration from 1830 to 1939.
Celebrating New Mexico Statehood This link opens in a new window provides access to materials about New Mexico's history and culture. Designed to facilitate research about New Mexico's past, cultural heritage materials from 12 New Mexico institutions are available here for study and research. Materials include photographs, documents, maps, posters, art, music and video. Managed by the University of New Mexico, University Libraries and funded by UNM's Center for Regional Studies, this project is intended to help all New Mexicans learn about and appreciate our past.
Colorado Plateau Digital Archives This link opens in a new window Digital archives from the Northern Arizona University's Cline Library Special Collections.
HRAF (Human Relations Area Files) Archaeology This link opens in a new window Designed to facilitate comparative archaeological studies, and organized by regions and archaeological traditions. Each tradition consists of a general summary and documents including books, journal articles, dissertations, and manuscripts. Focuses on in-depth descriptive documents that are subject-indexed. It has eight completed sequences, such as the Egyptian, Highland Andean, Coastal Andean, Maya, Highland Mesoamerican, Mississippian, Mesopotamian, and the Southwest United States.
Indigenous Digital Archive This link opens in a new window Indigenous Digital Archives contains scanned documents from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Documents include Indian school enrollment records, superintendent reports, land and water rights records from southwest tribes - Pueblo, Navajo and Apache. Open access provided by IDA.
Native American Archives This link opens in a new window This collection provides original historical documents pertaining to Native American history and life from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and other collections. Records include: Cherokee Indian Agency Records in Tennessee; Dawes Enrollment Cards and Dawes Packets from the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations; Eastern Cherokee Applications; Guion Miller Roll of the Eastern Cherokee; Indian Census Rolls including Indian Schools and southwestern tribes; Photos from Rinehart Collection taken during the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition; and Ratified Indian Treaties made by U.S. Coverage: 1700s to mid 1900s.
New Mexico Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window New Mexico Historical Newspapers
New Mexico Historical Review This link opens in a new window Founded in 1926, the New Mexico Historical Review is one of the oldest and most distinguished historical journals in the country. Publishing high-quality research on New Mexico and the Southwest, including Northern Mexico, each issue is filled with scholarly articles, book reviews and notes on new publications, news and current events.
New Mexico Newspapers This link opens in a new window The Albuquerque Journal (1995-present); The Las Cruces Sun-News (2/14/2004-present); the Roswell Daily Record (1/2/2002-present).
New Mexico's Digital Collections This link opens in a new window The collections originate from the University of New Mexico and from other New Mexico cultural heritage institutions. These collections contain documents, photographs, maps, posters, art and music. Topics include New Mexico history, water and land issues. Other subjects are Latin American art and politics.
New Mexico Archives Online (NMAO) This link opens in a new window Provides access to finding aids for archival collections from 19 repositories across the state of New Mexico. The finding aids include information on the contents, historical context, creation, and organization of materials in the collections.
Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 This link opens in a new window Digital access to the towns and cities in New Mexico mapped by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company. Dates and coverage varies for each place, ranging from the late 1800's to about 1960. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of New Mexico cities, towns and neighborhoods. Full-text in the way of maps available.

Southwest Studies Open Access and Web Resources

Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections UNM Libraries
Center for the Southwest (UNM)
Denver Public Library, Digital Image Collection Digital archives from the DPL's Western History & Genealogy Dept.
Mountain West Digital Library The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) is a central search portal for digital collections about the Mountain West region. MWDL provides free access to over 600,000 resources from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, historical societies, and government agencies, counties, and municipalities in Utah, Nevada, and other parts of the U.S. West.
New Mexico Digital History Project Interpretive essays and digital images - arranged topically - from the New Mexico Office of the State Historian.