Oxford Art

Oxford art online

Oxford Art Online is the access point for Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford Companion to Western Art, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Includes image partnerships and a digital image search.

Latin American Historical Dictionaries

This series is housed at the annex or in the Olin stacks, so you can check any of these out:

Recommended Sources at Olin & Online

Oxford Bibliographies

Bibliographies on many, many topics (a few pertinent individual titles listed below). Provides introductions to each topic area, and includes guides to introductory works, textbooks, guidebooks, journals, reference works etc., and links to useful websites.

Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on specific topics in a growing range of subject areas. There are at least 50 specific topical bibliographies in each subject area. Each of these features an introduction to the topic. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable. 

Help from Oxford: Anatomy of an Article

Recommended Sources at the Fine Arts Library (Rand Hall)

Use these sources for broad, contextual information and for biographical summaries.
Be sure to go through the Bibliography or Recommended Resources at the end of each entry for recommended books & articles.

José Antonio Aponte

Image: Aponte’s name circled in the founding members list from “Diligencias para establecer una cofradía de San José el Gremio de Carpinteros,” Archivo del Arzobispado de La Habana, Cofradías, leg. 4, exp. 21, f. 5. Courtesy of Archivo del Arzobsipado de La Habana via Digital Aponte

Image: Aponte’s name circled in the founding members list from “Diligencias para establecer una cofradía de San José el Gremio de Carpinteros,” Archivo del Arzobispado de La Habana, Cofradías, leg. 4, exp. 21, f. 5. Courtesy of Archivo del Arzobsipado de La Habana via Digital Aponte

General context

Cambridge Histories

The Cambridge Histories Online (also in print, in the stacks) are excellent, in-depth resources. This includes 11 separate volumes on the history of Latin America.

Cambridge Histories Online

Click on the "browse" tile, then go through the list under "regional histories."

These are also available in print.

See, for instance, the article:

Mary Turner, "Slave Worker Rebellions and Revolution in the Americas to 1804" from the Cambridge World History of Slavery
in from PART VIII - SLAVERY AND RESISTANCE (You must be logged in to read this if you are off campus)

These articles are actually chapters; they have GREAT bibliographies