Learn about Latin America’s peoples and experiences from pre-Columbian to contemporary times. It incorporates sights and sounds and offers links to original sources (Oxford University Press).
Learn about Latin America’s peoples and experiences from pre-Columbian to contemporary times. It incorporates sights and sounds and offers links to original sources (Oxford University Press).
This dictionary covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it describes and assesses the lives of more than 1000 men and women who have shaped political events across the world.
All aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day. It includes biographies of key figures in world history, historical summaries for each country, and entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and key battles and places.
Contains detailed textual, data and graphic information for countries and regions. Topics include: country overviews, political history and conditions, economic status, investment overviews, social background, and environmental situation and issues.
From the Central Intelligence Agency, this site provides country information organized by country, region, or topic. Topics include communications, defense, economy, flag and map, geography, government, people and transportation.
Background information and a list of countries is available from the website. The series is no longer published, but is accessible for historical purposes