Archivo Chile is a site that gathers information in all formats primarily about Chile’s social/popular movements, and secondarily about Latin America. The site also emphases human rights, and leftist politics. The site is rather cumbersome to navigate, but full of interesting material. You can find documents on Salvador Allende, Gabriela Mistral, Violeta Parra, and Miguel [...]

RTVE.es is Spain’s Radio and Television Corporation, and between news reports and other stories they also include reviews of the world’s literary classics. Presenter Esther Lorenzo creates brief descriptions of the story, gives some historical background, gives a little description of the specific edition she read, and encourages the listener to read the classics. Currently [...]

The British Library is constantly coming up with new great projects to make their collections accessible to all; In the latest, Archival Sound Recordings, they have digitized all of their audio collections and made them available to the world. The full collection gathers about 28,000 items which include recordings of singing, yelling, speaking, banging, and [...]

The Chicano Studies Center at UCLA has uploaded over 41,000 songs to an online repository titled Musica de la Frontera. A number of these songs date back as early as 1900, and cover a wide range of musical genres, including Tejano, Chicano and Mexican American. Full access to the archive is only available to UCLA [...]

Sometimes is seems like all my friends are trying to learn or improve their Spanish, which I love, and encourage as much as I can. So here’s a tool that might help you all! El Castellano.org is a site that tries to gather web resources that will aid in learning Spanish, both the European and [...]

ColombiaYa.com is a search engine for Colombians, by Colombians. The site will provide access to all things Colombian, starting with a crash course of the country’s government and history. You will also find news, culture, sports, government, entertainment, tourism, and so much more. The site also provides contact information for all the Colombian embassies around [...]

March is Women’s History Month in the USA and a number of universities, libraries, and other educational institutions are preparing events to celebrate. This month long celebration started with events for International Women’s Day, which falls every year on March 8th. Many of the celebrations around this date wish to write women back into history [...]

I grew up listening to Rubén Blades, -by far one of my favorite musicians-, and I just found out that he has agreed to donate his personal papers to the Eda Kuhn Loed Music Library at Harvard! It will take a few years for the complete transition and cataloging of the material, but in the [...]

I recently ran across this online radio station that offers news in a completely bilingual format. The appropriately named station, Radio Bilingüe, is based in California, with offices in San Francisco, and Salinas, and has been serving the USA based Latino community for 15 years. Radio Bilingüe has three mayor programs Línea Abierta, Noticiero Latino [...]

Radio Televisión Española has created a great radio series tracing the history of literature. Each session is about an hour long and covers a specific topic, such as knights in literature, places, couples, animals, seductresses, and war, among others. Each includes examples of specific texts, accompanying music, and sound effects. The program was created as [...]