Primary Documents on the Mexican Revolution

 

Photo: Maria Gonzalez and Soldaderas.                                                      Robert Photograph Collection, UT Austin/Library of Congress

 


Reference Materials - Before setting out to locate primary materials, its a good idea to acquaint yourself with basic background information on the Mexican revolution. You want find identify major figures, time frames, and proper names with any variation they may have.


Encyclopedia of Mexico: history, society & culture .

REF F 1204 .E539 1997


The Cambridge history of Latin America.

REF F 1410 .C1834 1984

Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture.

REF F 1406 .E53 1996.

 

Atlas of Mexico.

REF G 1545 .A9 1975

 

The Oxford History of Mexico

REF F1226 .O94 2000
 


 

Primary Sources in the Sueltenfuss Library - Primary sources can take the form of  proclamations, letters, diaries, government documents, legal codes, photographs, political cartoons, newspaper articles and first hand accounts (in both English and Spanish) originally written during that time period.  First hand accounts may also be reprinted in later editions. The following items available at the Sueltenfuss Library contain primary materials:

 

Border Fury: A Picture Postcard Record of Mexico's Revolution and U.S. War Preparedness, 1910-1917.
F1234 .V2 1988

 

Documents on the Mexican Revolution.
F 1234.D738 1976

 

Fuentes para la historia de la revolucion mexicana. (1974) 4 Vols. Vol 1. - Planes Politicos; Vol. 2 - La Caricature Politica; Vol 3. - La Huelga de Cananea; Vol. 4 - Manifestos Politicos

F1234 .F88 1974 (Special Collections)

 

Fragments of the Mexican Revolution: Personal Accounts from the Border.
F 1234.M378 1983

 

Historía Documental de México.
F 1226.M53

 

Plan de San Luis: documentos facsimilares.

F1234 .M17 1976 (Special Collections)

 

A diplomat's wife in Mexico: letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City, covering the period between October 8th, 1913 and April 23rd, 1914: together with an account of the occupancy of Vera Cruz. (1916)

F1234 .O83 (Special Collections)

 

Mexico in peace and war: a narrative of Mexican history and conditions from the earliest times to the present hour, including an account of the military operations by the United States at Vera Cruz in 1914 and the causes that led therto. (1914).

F1208 .R96 (Special Collections)

 

Life and Death in Milpa Alta (1972).

F 1391 .M55 J5 1972

 

The New York Times

Index - REF AI21 .N45 (2nd Floor)

Newspaper - 1851-1940 (offsite); 1941-present (2nd Floor)

 

You can also search WebCat, the Sueltenfuss Library's catalog using these subject headings:

 

Mexico - Histoty - Revolution - 1910-1920 - Sources

Mexico - History - 1910-1946 - Sources

 


 

 

Primary Sources on the Web - Primary documents in electronic form:

 

Postcards of the Mexican Revolution
http://www.netdotcom.com/revmexpc/

 

The Mexican Revolution: Conflict in Matamoros. Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
http://runyon.lib.utexas.edu/conflict.html

 

Border Revolution 1920-1920, text by Cindy Baxman with period photographs from the collections of the San Diego Historical Society
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/projects/border/page01.html

 

The Plan de Ayala
From Don Mabry’s Historical Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=127

 

The Plan of San Luís Potosí (Nov. 20, 1910)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1910potosi.html
 
Constitution of 1917
http://historicaltextarchive.com/mexico/1917const.html
 
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
 


 

Primary Sources in Other Libraries - More materials are available at other area libraries for viewing and most are available for check-out through TexShare (or CORAL for Trinity University). Ask a librarian at the Sueltenfuss Library about acquiring these materials.

 

 

At San Antonio Public Library

 

Fuentes para la historia de la revolucion mexicana

ESPANOL 972.082 FUENTES

 

La Revolucion de Chihuahua en las paginas del periodico "El Padre Padilla" : coleccion facsimilar, junio-diciembre 1911.

972.16 REVOLUCION (CENTRAL)

 

La revolucion mexicana a traves de sus documentos

ESPANOL 972.081 REVOLUCION (BAZAN, CENTRAL)

 

Trayectoria ideologica de la Revoluccion Mexicana, 1910-1907; [del manifesto del Partido Liberal de 1906 a la Constitucion de 1917].

ESPANOL 972.082 SILVA HERZOG (CENTRAL)

 

Documentos historicos de la Revolucion Mexicana

ESPANOL 972.082 FABELA (CENTRAL)

 

 

At St. Mary's University Academic Library (Blume Library)

 

Cronicas y Debates de las Sesiones de la Soberana Convención Revolucionaria. (1964)

F1234.M4 C7 

 

Documentos Historicos de la Revolucion Mexicana. (1960)

Contents: 1. Revolucion y regimen constitucionalista, 2. La intervencion norteamericana en Veracruz (1914), 4. El plan de Guadalupe, 6,7,8,9. Revolucion y regimen Maderista, 10. Actividades politicas y revolucionarias de los hermanos Flores Magon, 11. Precursores de la revolucion Mexicana 1906-1910, 12,& 13.Expedicion punitiva, 14,15,16,17,& 18. Revolucicion y regimen constitucionalista, 19. Testimonios sobre los asesinatos de Don Venustiano y Jesus Carranza, 20.(parts I & II), Las relaciones internacionales en la revolucion y regimen constitucionalista y la cuestion petrolera 1913-1919, 21. Emiliano Zapata el plan de Ayala y su politica agraria, 25,26,& 27. La convencion debates de las sesiones de la soberana convencion revolucionaria 1914-1916.

F1234 .F15 

 

Mexico Visto en el Siglo XX. (1969)

F1234 .W5 

 

At Trinity University

 

Papers Relating to the Foreign Affairs of the United States. United States. Dept. of State. 1870-1946

S 1.1 (in Government Documents Reference Area)

 

Documentos Historicos de la Revolucion Mexicana: Revolucion y regimen constitucionalistas.

4 Vols.

F1234 .R48 1960

 

Documentos históricos de la Revolución Mexicana; expedición punitiva.

F1234 .F25 1967

 

La Revolución mexicana a traves de sus documentos.

F1234 .R47 1987

 

Revolución y régimen maderista.

F1234 .R49 1964

 

Trayectoria ideológica de la Revolución Mexicana, 1910-1917 y otros ensayos.

F1234 .S593 1973

 

La Convención : debates de las sesiones de la Soberana Convención Revolucionaria, 1914-1915.

F1234 .M57 1971

 

Actividades políticas y revolucionarias de los hermanos Flores Magón.

F1234.F659 A63

 

La caractura politica / prólogo, estudios y notas de Manuel González Ramírez, con un proemio de Sergio Fernández.

NC1455.M4 G6

 

Planes politicos, proclamas, manifiestos y otros documentos de la independencia al Mexico moderno, 1812-1940.

F1234.F88 vol.1

 

Documentos de la revolución mexicana.

F1234 .D735

 

Y por todos habló la Revolución.

F1234 .Y15 1985

 

San Antonio News 1911-1984

MF 188 (microform)

At UTSA

 

 

Como México no hay dos: porfirismo-revolución-neoporfirismo. Recopilación y arreglo del material. (1971) 

F1234 .D22

 

Caricatura Politica. (1955)  

NC1455 .M4G6 1955

 

Fuentes para la historia de la revolución mexicana. (1954)

F1234 .F88

 

San Antonio Express 1868-1984

AN2 .S3 E9 (microfilm)

 

At San Antonio College

 

Plan de San Luis: se edita en ocasion de la visita del C. Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. (1972)

F1234 .M17 1976 

 

 

At Texas Lutheran University

 

Revolución y régimen constitucionalista. (1960)

F1234 .F112c

 

 

At Southwest Texas State University

 

Mangon, Ricardo Flores (1977). Land and Liberty: anarchist influences in the Mexican Revolution. F1234 .L26

 


 

Secondary Sources

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LANIC
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/mexico/

 

Mexican Revolution: Student-Teacher Resource Center
http://northcoast.com/~spdtom/rev4.html
 
General Links to Topics Dealing with the Mexican Revolution
http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/webpages/revsfall98/mexico/mex_rev.html

 

Don Mabry’s Historical Text Archive: Mexico
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=21

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