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ArteHistoria, from the Junta de
Castilla y León, contains images, videos, and digital exhibits about the
history, culture, and art of this fascinating region of Spain. In Spanish.
The
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
offers
Teaching and Research Tools to help
in the study of classical Spanish literature.
La Biblioteca de las Culturas Hispánicas hosts the
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, an enormous database of primary and secondary source materials in Spanish
literature, culture, law, history, etc.
La Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Historica is a growing
collection of page-image, searchable newspapers published
throughout Spain between 1777 and 2005. There are already more
than 4.3 million pages available. New!
BIMUS is a
searchable catalog of museum library catalogs in Spain,
including the National Museum of Theatre.
New!
Over 4000 images of cathedrals, mosques, synagogues,
palaces, universities and other structures are available on the University of
Wisconsin's
Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain.
Searchable.
The
Catedral de Compostela in Spain offers a nice virtual tour.
Sponsored by the Instituto Cervantes, The
Centro Virtual Cervantes has a wealth of excellent content about literature,
language, and the arts. The
Instituto Cervantes is an organization
dedicated to the world-wide promotion and teaching of Spanish and Latin American
language and culture.
The
Cervantes
Project is a multilingual joint project from Texas A&M, the
Universidad de Castilla-LaMancha, and others and features texts,
biographies, images, etc.
Arizona State University has an interesting digital
exhibit on the
Chicana/Chicano Experience in Arizona.
The BBC News has
Country Profiles
for all Hispanic countries. These pages are rich in resources including
fast facts, audio and video files, and links to media outlets.
From the people who bring you international espionage
and covert operations comes the
CIA
World Factbook. Get political, geographical, economic and other intelligence
about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain.
What's up in the European Union?
EUFeeds is a page that aggregates over 300
newspapers from across the EU and is updated every 20 minutes. Hover over
a headline to get the opening sentence of an article, or click on a headline to
get the whole story.
The
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
from Fordham University has a nice collection of scholarly resources for Iberia.
Another excellent site, noteworthy particularly for its digitized collection of
scholarly journals, is
Hispanomedievalismo.
ISiS (Iberian Studies in SALALM), a forum primarily geared
towards bibliographers and educators, offers links to resource
guides, news outlets, dissertations and theses, journals, etc.
from and about the Iberian Peninsula.
Ten percent of the population of the United States speak
Spanish at home. The Modern Language Association's
Language Map shows offers nifty tools with which you can find demographic
and other information.
KU has made available free, full-text online content of
Latin American Theatre Review.
Full text runs from 1967 to the most recent 5 years. Abstracts and
citations are available for the most recent 5 years.
Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763–1848 is
an online digital exhibit of portraits, maps, documents, and treaties.
Organized by he National Portrait Gallery, Sociedad Estatal para la Acción
Cultural Exterior de España (SEACEX), Smithsonian Latino Center, and the
Fundación Consejo España-Estados Unidos. In English or Spanish.
The Library of Congress
has put together
annotated links
for Iberia, the Caribbean, and Latin America covering topics on government,
culture, history, literature, business, and much more.
The University of Central Arkansas and the American
Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain provide free full-text e-books
through the Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO).
Content mostly consists of scholarly works published by university presses,
basic texts, and sources in translation. Searchable.
Literalia TV offers quality video on the subject of
literature: discussions, reviews, interviews, etc. From Spain,
so be prepared to hear that vosotros form you've been
ignoring. New!
Los Poetas offers biographies of Spanish,
Caribbean, and Latin American poets, living or dead, and a generous sampling of
their poetry.
The
One Semester of Spanish
Spanish Love Song, just for fun. And now ... Mike has
taken a second semester of Spanish! The
Second
Semester of Spanish Spanish Love Song features special guest
star Erik Estrada. New!
The recognized authority on the Spanish language, the
Real Academia Española,
offers some fabulous searchable resources including el Diccionario de la Lengua
Española, el Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas, and el Nuevo Tesora
Lexicográfico de la Lengua Española, which is a collection of digitized pages
from dictionaries dating from 1726 to 1992.
Practice your Spanish and learn about the cultures of
the Spanish-speaking world at
Spanish Language and Culture
with Barbara Kuczun Nelson.
The
Writing Center at WSU can help students with
everything from developing a topic to specific writing problems. They will not
write a paper for you.
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