Click on the title to read the book online. (Subscription resources. Login required for off-campus access.)
Proquest Research Library: Historical
"A highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers," with coverage of over 1,900 publications.
A very large, multi-disciplinary database that includes indexing for over 8,000 magazines and journals with full text of articles from over 4,600 of those.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II & III
An electronic collection of the complete back runs of about 246 scholarly journals
Search within
National Geographic,
access full-text online
(add and inca or and aztec or and maya in the search box)
Films on Demand
Streaming documentary and educational films. Includes over 100 films on Ancient Civilizations.
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Complete Illustrated History of the Aztec & Maya: The Definitive Chronicle of the Ancient Peoples of Central America & Mexico - including the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec & Zapotec |
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Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World |
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Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture |
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World Encyclopedia of Archaeology |
Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations
REF 930.03 C829e
Oxford Companion to Archaeology
REF 930.103 Ox2
Encyclopedia of Religion
REF 200.321 En19r (16 volumes)
Creation Myths of the World
Latin American Network Information Center, from the University of Texas at Austin. "LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America." See their set of history links.
History of Science in Latin America: Virtual Archives
World Digital Library: Latin America and the Caribbean (see Time Periods on the left)
| America--Antiquities | ||
| Aztecs | Olmecs | |
| Aztecs--Antiquities | Olmecs--Antiquities | |
| Aztecs--History | Olmecs--History | |
| Incas | Toltecs | |
| Incas--Antiquities | Toltecs--Antiquities | |
| Incas--History | Toltecs--History | |
| Mayas | ||
| Mayas--Antiquities | ||
| Mayas--History | ||
Try an Advanced Search with a keyword and one of the headings above as a subject.
An example: keyword = astronomy and subject = mayas.
| Mythology | 201 | |
| History of Central America; Mexico | 972 | |
| History of South America | 980 |
Film databases
Fiction
To find fictional works about the subjects above, do an Advanced Search in the online catalog and add "fiction" as a keyword. Put one of the headings above as a subject. An example: keyword = fiction and subject = mayas.
Worldcat is a very large union catalog that includes the holdings of most U.S. academic libraries.
Google Books permits searching the full content of some books. Books in the public domain (not copyright protected) are available online.
If you find a book (or other item) of interest that the VSC libraries don't own, you can request it through interlibrary loan.
Click on Search Other Libraries here or within the library catalog
Find the book you want and click on 
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