Below are modern reprints of primary source documents in English translation on the histories of Latin American countries, cities, individuals and communities. Scroll to browse the list or choose from these categories:
Covering the pre-Columbian and Colonial periods, with documents written by explorers, slaveholders and governors, religious leaders and more
From independence movements and the birth of the modern period to the present, with documents written by journalists and activists to artists and poets.
These books, many published as part of a UNC Press series, are organized by country and usually contain illustrations as well as documents, with a greater emphasis on working class and underrepresented communities, as well as the usual political leaders, writers and artists who make history.
Afro-Latino voices: translations of early modern Ibero-Atlantic narratives by 
The Chile Reader by 
Colonial Latin America by 
Colonial Latin America by 
Colonial Spanish America by 
The Conquest on Trial by 
Early Brazil by 
Forgotten Franciscans by 
Here in This Year: seventeenth-century Nahuatl annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley by 
The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536-1820 by 
Jesuit Writings of the Early Modern Period, 1540-1640 by 
Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns by 
Letters and People of the Spanish Indies by 
Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico : Three Texts in Context by 
Mesoamerican Voices by 
Mexican History by 
The misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez: the true adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-century pirates by 
A wild country out in the garden: the spiritual journals of a Colonial Mexican nun
Alfredo Boulton and His Contemporaries by 
Colonial Lives by 
Latin American Independence: An Anthology of Sources by 
Listen Here Now! Argentine art of the 1960s : writings of the avant-garde by 
Readings in Latin American modern art by 
Religion in Latin America by Resisting categories : latin american and/or latino? by 
The Argentina Reader by The Chile Reader by The Costa Rica Reader by 
The Cuba Reader by 
The Dominican Republic Reader by 
The Ecuador Reader by 
The Guatemala Reader by 
The Mexico Reader by 
[Mexico] The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico by
In this updated edition of a classic, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendents across the centuries. These texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that perserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors.
The Paraguay Reader by The Peru Reader by 
The Rio de Janeiro Reader by 