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Borderlands
Research Guide
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File
Other
Libraries
Online Catalog
Use the EPCC
Libraries' Online Catalog
(
http://lib.epcc.edu
)
to find books on borderlands topics.
Suggested subject headings:
Mexican
American Border Region
and
El
Paso Tex History
In addition, here are lists of suggested titles with their call
numbers. Click on the title to see the full description and its
availability.
Books in Reference
Circulating Books (can be checked out)
Electronic Books
The online equivalent of the reference book
Handbook
of Texas Online
is available at
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
.
It is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, Geography, and
culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places,
events,|
historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic
categories.
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Local and National Newspapers
Begin with local papers first. You'll find the microfilms at the UTEP Library and the Main/Downtown public library branch. If you determine your event had national importance, check the
index for the
New York Times (1851-2003)
[
Off-campus
access ]
- El Paso Times
under various names runs from 1881-
- El Paso Herald or El Paso Herald Post
under various names runs from 1881-1997
- The Lone Star ran 1881-1886
- La Patria (Spanish newspaper) ran from 1919-1925
- Other Mexican-American newspapers exist on microfilm at the
NMSU Library in Las Cruces. Usually there are only
several issues of a paper, and the papers are from the beginning
of the 20th century. Search for the subject: El Paso Tex
Newspapers or El Paso County Tex Newspapers.
Some of these are:
El azote, La buena prensa, El Ciudadano
, El clarín del Norte, El defensor,
La democracia, El día,
Los dos Américas, El hispano-americano, El
independiente , La justicia, El latino-americano,
El monitor, Las noticias, El observador
fronterizo, El paso del norte , El Progresista, Renacimiento, Sancho Panza,
El Valle del bravo, El zurriago.
- Other short lived English language papers from El Paso are
below. These are all at the
NMSU Library:
Commercial review, The Evening Telegram
, El Paso weekly tribune , Evening Tribune
, Homer Union news (on the petroleum industry),
Monday mercury, The Pass City
independent, The southwesterner (from the
1960s), Ysleta independent.
Journal and Magazine Articles
You can use both
indexes in book form or online databases to find articles on the
Borderlands.
The journal Password deals specifically with
El Paso history, and the journal American Heritage covers U.S.
History. To find articles in these two journals, you can use the
indexes that specifically cover each title:
-
The journal Password
is at REF F786 .P28 and its index is
online
at the El Paso County
Historical Society site or at Reference.
-
American Heritage is in the Periodicals Area and issues from
1990 to the present are searchable online in the
History Reference Center
database. Also available through
Off-campus access
.
Index to all the years of publication is on Reserve.
Online indexes are
available providing access and often the full text of the articles in
various areas. The full list of databases is available on our
Online
Databases page
. Recommended areas for Borderlands research
are:
Use terms such as:
Be sure to check the Online Databases
MLA Style and
APA Style pages to find out how to cite electronic articles.
Websites
Local Archives/Organizations
- Along the Rio Grande
circulating DVDs at
NW F394.E4A46
This EPCC-TV
television series ran from 2000 to 2003 and highlighted local individuals
and institutions involved in historical and cultural projects in
the greater El Paso area. See description of all the
episodes at [
http://www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/arg
].
-
ASARCO El Paso : selected documents vol. 1
Kept at the NW Library Circulation Desk.
court hearings, air
quality reports, Master's Thesis and much more on CD-ROM and
held at the Northwest Community library.
Donated by Taylor Moore, Esq .
- Casasola Photography Studio collection (UTEP special
collections) For 60 years Casasola Studio in El Paso,
Texas photographed families in the community, compiling,
essentially, a history of the community. The studio closed in
the early 1990s leaving a collection of negatives under the care
of the University of Texas at El Paso.
[http://129.108.99.94:200/casasola/default.htm
]
- El Paso
County Historical Society
Created and maintained by the Society.
Includes index to Password, the society's local history journal and
also an index to the society's archives. [http://www.elpasohistory.com
]
- El Paso Inc.
"An El Paso-owned business and lifestyle weekly." [http://www.elpasoinc.com/]
- El Paso.org Photo
gallery
Gallery of historical photos
maintained by the El Paso Chamber of Commerce. [http://www.elpaso.org/gallery.asp
]
El Paso Public Library Border Heritage Center
The center
collects, preserves, and makes available information about the
history and culture of the residents of El Paso, Ciudad Juárez,
and the surrounding region.
[http://www.elpasotexas.gov/library/ourlibraries/main_library/border_heritage.asp]
El Paso
Times
Daily news with seven day
archives. Also includes graphs and statistics from the TX and
NM censuses. [
http://www.elpasotimes.com/
]
-
Fort Bliss History
US Army Installation Management office. You may get a message about
this site's security certificate. Click on "continue to this
website (not recommended)"
[https://www.bliss.army.mil/garrison/sites/about/history.asp
]
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Mexican
Revolution: "Countdown to the 100th. Anniversary of
the Mexican Revolution - El Paso - Ciudad Juárez: Two Cities
that Sparked an Uprise"
Jointly organized in 2006 by the sister cities of El Paso and
Juárez, this site contains historical photos, detailed walking
and trolley tours, lecture series, historical articles and more.
[
http://www.elpasotexas.gov/mcad/mexicanrevolution/default.asp
]
-
Murals --
Photographs of murals with brief descriptions and locations.
Murals
of El Paso
,
Colors
on Desert Walls
,
and
County Courthouse Mural
[
http://www.utep.edu/border/mur.html
,
http://www.utep.edu/border/essays/farah/farahmurals.html
,
http://www.epcounty.com/mural/
]
-
Newspaper Tree --
"El Paso's Original News Source"
-
Photo Collections:
Casasola Photography Studio collection (UTEP special
collections)
;
El Paso
County Historical Society
;
El Paso.org Photo
gallery
;
El Paso Police
Department historic photographs;
Murals
of El Paso
;
Not
for Distribution: Behind the Demolition Plan
(
http://www.newspapertree.com
);
UTEP
Special Collections Photo Database
.
-
Public Art Inventory
-- City of El Paso
[http://www.elpasotexas.gov/mcad/_documents/060404_ACD_Revised_Public_Art_Inventory.pdf
]
-
UTEP's
Institute of Oral History
While focusing on the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez
area, the collection also contains interviews dealing with the
history of communities all along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Copies of the oral history tapes, transcripts, indexes, and
summaries are housed in the Special Collections Department,
University Library, UTEP. The public is invited to read transcripts
and listen to tape recordings there.
Projects include:
Big
Bend National Park
,
The
Chamizal Settlement
,
African Americans in El Paso
,
UTEP History
,
Bracero Oral History Project
,
Immigration
,
The
Mexican Revolution of 1910
,
Border Labor History
,
Mining In Mexico
,
Health Care on the Border
[http://dmc.utep.edu/oralh/OralHistory.html]
-
UTEP's
Special Collections Department
Specializing in Southwest and Border Studies collections among
others. Many useful collections, including the
John J. Middagh papers
, research files of a local newspaper
reporter which were donated to UTEP.
See the
Container List
for topics in each folder.
Searchable
photo
database online
to find photos from the Mexican Revolution
Collection, Dona Ana County Sheriff's Collection, postcard
collections.
[
http://libraryweb.utep.edu/special/special.cfm
]
Other
- American Journeys Digital Collection
Eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement.
Great resource. Search under "find a document" by geographic
region, or "advanced search" allows keyword searching through full
text of documents
.
[
http://www.americanjourneys.org/
]
- Amnesty International reports on the Murders of Women in
Juárez
- ASARCO corporate history in El Paso
Created and maintained by ASARCO, historically
one of the largest regional employers.[
http://www.asarco.com/elpasoj.html
]
-
Association for Borderlands Studies
Complilation of websites for US/Mexico border region.
[
http://www.absborderlands.org/linx/linx-mxus.html
]
-
The Border
Bilingual PBS website accompanying its series on contemporary
life along the U.S.-Mexico border. Includes text of the show,
historical timelines and maps and more. [http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/index.html
]
-
Border Colonias Region
Data compiled by the Housing Assistance Council (HAC)
1998.
[http:/.ruralhome.org/pubs/hsganalysis/colonias/contents.htm]
-
Border Revolution, 1910-1920
Developed by student Cindy Baxman at the
University of San Diego, May 1998. Includes text and
photographs. [
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/projects/border/page01.html
]
-
Borderlands
Information Center
"
...central clearinghouse and referral center for
information about the Texas/Mexico border region."
[
http://www.bic.state.tx.us/
]
-
Colonias Program
Run by the Center for Housing and Urban Development, College of
Architecture at Texas A&M University, this website provides
research, articles, the Colonias Factbook, resident profiles,
pictures, and more. [
http://chud.tamu.edu/
]
-
El Paso
and
Chihuahua
information.
Created and maintained by
Citi-Guide.
[
http://www.citi-guide.com/texas/elpaso/main.asp
and
http://www.citi-guide.com/mexico
]
-
El
Paso County. Histories of El Paso and Surrounding Areas
Created and maintained by El Paso County.
[
http://www.co.el-paso.tx.us/history/
]
-
El
Paso County History
Section of
TXGenWeb and USGenWeb Projects, genealogy sites. Includes
historical maps and brief information on historical towns.
[
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txelpaso
/]
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Farmworkers Website / El website campesino
An initiative
of the Sin Fronteras Organizing Project, it contains information on
El Paso and the Bracero Program of the 1940s-1960s.
[
http://www.farmworkers.org/Welcome.html
]
-
Fort Bliss History
US Army Installation Management office.
[https://www.bliss.army.mil/garrison/sites/about/history.asp
]
-
Handbook of Texas Online
A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas
history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000
articles on people, places, events, historical themes,
institutions, and a host of other topic categories.
[
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
]
-
Historical Text
Archive
Publishes high quality articles, books, essays,
documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content,
for a broad range of historical subjects. In particular,
see the section on the
Mexican Revolution
. [
http://historicaltextarchive.com
]
-
History of Ciudad Juárez
Created and
maintained by Borderlines.
[http://www.blines.com/page2.html
]
-
Institute of Texan Cultures (San Antonio)
One of the three campuses of The University of Texas at San Antonio,
the Institute is an educational center dedicated to enhancing the
understanding of the history and diverse cultures of Texas.
[http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu]
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Jim
Janke's Old West
Links to sites
covering every aspect of the Old West, which is defined loosely as
the legend and reality of 19th Century America west of the
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and anything and anybody associated
with it, past and present. [
http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/oldwest/oldwest.htm
]
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LANIC
U.S. Mexico resources
Very comprehensive listing of resources maintained by the Latin
American Network Information Center (LANIC) run by U.T. Austin. [http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/mexico/usmex/
]
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Mexico from Empire to Revolution
"
A Web resource that draws upon the collection of
the Getty Research Institute and extends the two-part exhibition
held at the Institute between October 2000 and May 2001. Reproduced
in the digital resource are cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite,
albums, postcards and other forms of photography. The Photographers
represented are either Mexican or European or North American. The
work of some thirty known photographers is shown, alongside that of
many others who remain anonymous. Together they provide a chronicle
of Mexico from approximately 1857 to 1923, a chronicle explored in
the History and Chronology sections of the resource."
[
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/mexico/html/index.html
]
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No
Angel Came
Information about the murders of young women in Juárez. This
is a personal site, in contrast to a site maintained by an
organization, newspaper, university, etc. so the information here
should be verified. The author provides dates and sources for
her information which makes verification easier. It's a good
site for background information.
[
http://takenbythesky.net/Juárez/jindex.html
]
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The
Open Record Texas history section
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
newsletter begun in fall 2005.
May include El Paso information. [
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/theopenrecord/archives/category/texas-history/
]
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Postcards
of the Mexican Revolution
Postcards of famous figures in the Revolution along with brief
biographical information. [
http://www.netdotcom.com/revmexpc/
]
-
Tox
Town: U.S. Mexico Border Neighborhood
Explore a border community to learn about air
pollution, drinking water quality, workplace hazards, pesticides,
rats and snakes,
lead poisoning, backyard trash burning, and many other environmental
concerns that may affect one's health.
Maintained by the National Library of Medicine. [
http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/border/main.htm
]
-
U.S. Latinos and Latinas & World War II
Oral histories from UT Austin. May include some local
information.
[
http://utopia.utexas.edu/explore/latino/index.html
]
-
Women
and the Mexican Revolution
Student written project for the Women's Studies Dept of the
University of Arizona. Includes basics of the Revolution,
roles of Mexican women in the conflict and the interactions of some
American women with Revolutionary leaders. [
http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/ws200/mex.htm
]
-
Yahoo's
American West
Comprehensive listing of links covering all aspects of the American
West.
[http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/19th_Century/American_West/
]
-
New!
Yale Collection of Western Americana Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library
Postcard photographs related to
United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution.
ca. 1910-1917.
WA Photos 307
[
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/buildSRCHXC.asp?WC=N&CN=WA
Photos 307
]
Vertical File
The Borderlands
Vertical File is comprised of clippings from the local newspapers,
magazines, and other sources.
It covers the local area, sometimes
extending to the entire state of Texas, New Mexico, Chihuahua and other
parts of Mexico
when the material impacts our borderlands.
Other Libraries
El Paso Public
Library
Border Heritage Center
501 N. Oregon Street
543-5440
Website:
http://www.elpasotexas.gov/library/ourlibraries/main_library/border_heritage.asp
SOL (Online catalog):
http://sol.ci.el-paso.tx.us
use the subject headings: Mexican American Border Region or El
Paso Tex History
Special Collections, University of Texas at El Paso Library
Wiggins Rd.
747-5672
Website:
http://libraryweb.utep.edu/special/special.cfm
Nugget (Online catalog):
http://129.108.99.98
use subject
headings: Mexican American Border Regioex History
El Paso Historical Society
603-605 West Yandell Street
533-3603
Website:
http:/
/www.elpasohistory.com
Password (their historical journal) and their archives database (useful
especially for photos):
http://www.elpasohistory.com/search.html
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Research guide created by Monica
Wong,
monicaw@epcc.edu
Additions by Rachel Murphree,
murphree@elp.rr.com
Last Updated:
May 07, 2008
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