Hispanic & Latino History : HPL Guide

View over 100 collections of papers and photographs representing the contributions of Hispanics in every industry and their experience in the Bayou City. These archival records, coupled with first-hand accounts captured via oral history offer a rich account of the Hispanic experience in Houston.

Finding aids for HHRC's archival collections. Finding aids are descriptive documents listing the contents of the collections. Please note: most of the actual materials are available to view on-site only and are not digitized. To view items that have been digitized, please visit the Houston History Digital Archives.

Archive of publications focused on U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from colonial times until 1960. Series 1 covers the creative life of U.S. Latinos and Hispanics. Series 2 covers Hispanic American civil rights, religion and women’s rights from the 18th-20th centuries. Content written, indexed and searchable in Spanish and English is drawn from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, a national project to locate, preserve, and disseminate Latino-Hispanic culture of the United States.

Archive of publications focused on U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from colonial times until 1960. Series 1 covers the creative life of U.S. Latinos and Hispanics. Series 2 covers Hispanic American civil rights, religion and women’s rights from the 18th-20th centuries. Content written, indexed and searchable in Spanish and English is drawn from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, a national project to locate, preserve, and disseminate Latino-Hispanic culture of the United States.

The evening before his assassination President John F. Kennedy, and First Lady Jackie, made an appearance at the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council 60’s gala held at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas. Information, photos, and video of the event may be found here.

Covering the period since the onset of civil rights era, interviews with African American, Mexican American, and white activists located throughout Texas adds new depth to the study of “black/brown” and multicultural relations past and present.

Offers databases on families of Northern Mexico, South Texas, California, and New Mexico. Hispanic Genealogy books and databases gathered by the club are donated to the Clayton Library for Genealogical Research.

Founded in 1981 for the purpose of promoting genealogical research into the origins of the Mexican-American and other Hispanic populations of Houston. The HGSH meets monthly to offer research help, discuss projects, and listen to guest speakers. They publish an annual journal and donate Hispanic genealogy books to the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research.

Texas Historical Commission guide highlighting Hispanic heritage in Texas. Written and photographic content presents places, practices, and people that contribute to the health and vibrancy of Hispanic cultures in Texas.

Discover & discuss Latino Arts, Latino History, Latino Music, Latino Literature, Latino Cooking and Latino Cinema. History section includes historical biographies, interviews, and timelines.

Founded in Corpus Christi, in 1929, the League of United Latin American Citizens is the largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States

Mexican American/Chicano/Latino studies research tool. Research hub with useful links.

Non-profit formed in 1989 with primary purpose of identifying and preserving buildings and sites that have historical and or archaeological significance to the Hispanic, early Texas, French and native/indigenous cultures.

Founded in 2017 by borderland natives Maira E. Álvarez and Sylvia A. Fernández. BAC is a project that consists of a digital map which displays a U.S.-Mexico border newspapers cartography that records geographic locations of nineteenth and mid-twentieth century periodicals.

Discover oral histories and artifacts from the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative from 1942-1964 that brought millions of Mexican agricultural workers to farms in the United States.

Hundreds of years’ worth of church and government documents are available for Spanish-speaking countries. Search for your ancestors’ birth, marriage, or death records. Requires the creation of a free account.

Initiative dedicated to the recovery and publication of materials related to Latin American and Latinx art. Digitized writings by artists, leaders of artistic movements, critics, and curators from Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

This 2013, three-part, six-hour PBS documentary series chronicles the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape the United States over the last 500-plus years.

The web page for the Hispanic Reading Room of the Library of Congress. The Resources section includes links to digital exhibits, collections and oral history projects, as well as finding aids and research guides.

Hispanic section offers a selection of links to websites useful for genealogical research in Central and South America, Mexico, Caribbean, and the West Indies.

The Program in Latino History and Culture has compiled a list of collections in the Smithsonian that focus on Latino history. Digitized collections and exhibitions may be found here.

International program to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1960. Web page includes digital exhibits created with their materials.

Finding aids for materials related to Arte Público Press and the archival collections amassed through their Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage project and a digital collection of 162 documents chronicling the history of Mexico for 1571-1913.

Leading Latino oral history archive in the United States. Began as a project to capture stories of Latinx who served in the military or on the home front, during World War II. Expanded to include the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and Political and Civic Engagement. Contains over 1,250 interviews, over 10,000 digitized, high-resolution photos, and other primary source documents.