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Periodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region is a bilingual research portal that provides access to 200+ digitized periodicals from Arte Público Press, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery) Digital Archive in collaboration with the US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) located at the University of Houston.

This project, funded in part by the Council on Library Information Resources (CLIR) Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives, is an effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of border publications with descriptive information, digital humanities tools and educational resources.

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  • American Flag

    Brownsville, Texas, United States

    1850-03-06/1855-05-19

  • El Paladín

    Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

    1927-02-04/1937-11-05

  • El Intruso

    Cananea, Sonora, México

    1924-09-16

  • La Violeta

    Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

    1887-10-15/1894-05-20

  • América

    Brownsville, Texas, United States

    1926-04-24

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Periodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region includes over 200+ Spanish, English, and bilingual publications. Archival materials come from print, microfilm and digital collections housed at the University of Houston’s Recovery Program.

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Find periodicals from as many as 13 states along the US-Mexico Border.