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National Archives Hispanic Heritage Month Site
We celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month to recognize the achievements and contributions of Hispanic American champions who have inspired others to achieve success. Discover documents, exhibits, films, blog posts and more from the National Archives and Presidential Libraries that highlight Hispanic culture.
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Image credit: Photo credit: Detail of Hispanic Heritage Select Photos, by David Valdez.
Selected Exhibits and Collections
Social Media 5Hide All
Art & Architecture 19Hide All
- Artists Rule: How a feathered serpent god presided over a forgotten golden age of Mexican art (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Art of Mestizaje: Fusion in Latin America (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain (National Gallery of Art)
- Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492–1898 (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art: A Digital Archive and Publications Project (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Carol M. Highsmith Archive, photographs of Cuba (Library of Congress)
- The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place (National Gallery of Art)
- Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art: A Digital Archive and Publications Project (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- El Greco Online Tour (Spanish, 1541-1614) (National Gallery of Art)
- Folk Arts of the Spanish Southwest from the Index of American Design (National Gallery of Art)
- Francisco de Goya Online Tour (Spanish, 1746-1828) (National Gallery of Art)
- Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life (National Endowment for the Humanities, New York Botanical Garden)
- Mesilla, New Mexico: History and Architecture of a Border Town (National Park Service)
- National Register of Historic Places (National Park Service)
- Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906 (National Gallery of Art)
- Portrait of the Past: Excavating the Pre-Classic Maya Murals at San Bartolo (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Reconsidering Rivera (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Spanish Missions (Library of Congress, National Park Service and Historic American Buildings Survey)
- Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century Online Tour (National Gallery of Art)
The Era of Exploration 6Hide All
- 1492: An Ongoing Voyage (Library of Congress)
- 1562 Map of America by Diego Gutiérrez (Library of Congress)
- English Exploration of the Americas: Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake (Library of Congress)
- Exploring the Early Americas (Library of Congress)
- Humboldt in the New World (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Road to Santa Fe: A Virtual Excursion (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Culture and Ethnography 8Hide All
- American Latino Heritage Projects (National Park Service)
- A Celebration of Mexico (Library of Congress)
- The Cultures and History of the Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
- Ethnography and Folklore: Alan Lomax Collection (Library of Congress)
- The Latino Experience (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier (Library of Congress)
- The Portuguese in the United States (Library of Congress)
- The United States of Mestizo (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Economics 1Hide All
- Records Relating to the Mexican Labor ("Bracero") Program, 1950 – 1964 (National Archives)
Government, Politics & Law 6Hide All
- Executive and Legislative Documents (Law Library of Congress)
- Hispanic Americans in Congress (Library of Congress)
- Hispanic Americans in Congress (U.S. House of Representatives)
- Mexican Border Crossing Records (National Archives)
- Platt Amendment 1903 (National Archives)
- Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor -- Legal opinions, writings and confirmation documents (Law Library of Congress)
Poetry & Literature 3Hide All
- Cuarderno de Ortographia, The first book published in New Mexico in 1834 (Library of Congress)
- Six Hispanic Literary Giants: Sonnet Masters of the Spanish Golden Age (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Spotlight on U.S. Hispanic Writers (Library of Congress)
History 26Hide All
- Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba, 1962 (National Archives)
- Anthony Acevedo donates artifacts to the Holocaust Museum (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Facebook)
- Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Baseball Brotherhood (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Castillo de San Marcos National Monument -- Fort Matanzas (National Park Service)
- De Lôme Letter, 1898 (National Archives)
- Digitized Spanish Mission Records from Tumacacori National Historical Park 1684 – 1848 (National Park Service)
- From the Rainforest: Rescuing an Altar from Looters (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire (Smithsonian Institution)
- Hispanic American Records on Historypin (National Archives)
- Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence (Smithsonian Institution)
- New Mexico, New Spain, Old Cultures: Historic Spanish‐Language Newspapers in Chronicling America (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Mexican Border Crossing Records (National Archives)
- Military Resources: Mexican War, 1846-1848 (National Archives)
- National Archives on Flickr
- Platt Amendment, 1903 (National Archives)
- Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age (Library of Congress)
- The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War (Library of Congress)
- San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (National Park Service)
- School Desegregation and Civil Rights Stories: Orange County, California (National Archives)
- The Soul of a Free Man: Toussaint-Louverture (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (Library of Congress)
- Telling All Americans' Stories: American Latino Heritage (National Park Service)
- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (National Archives)
- The United States Armed Forces and the Mexican Punitive Expedition (National Archives)
Music 8Hide All
- Alberto Nepomuceno Collection (Library of Congress)
- California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties (Library of Congress)
- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (Library of Congress)
- Inter-American Music Festival Foundation papers (Library of Congress)
- Laurindo Almeida Papers (Library of Congress)
- Lauro Ayestarán Collection (Library of Congress)
- Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Collection (Library of Congress)
- William P. Gottlieb Collection, Latin Jazz photographs (Library of Congress)
Resource Guides and Collection Overviews from the Library of Congress 6Hide All
- About the Hispanic, Portuguese, and Caribbean Collections: Overview and Researcher's Guide
- Collections Overviews - American Studies: Hispanic American Studies
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Online
- Hispanic and Portuguese Collections: An Illustrated Guide
- Latinos in Math & Science: Resources for kids, young adults and teachers