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Language Resources:
Spanish

Government, History, & Politics

GOVERNMENT

Constitución Española
Constituciones Hispanoamericanas

HISTORY
Sites from About.com are adapted from the Library of Congress Country Studies site.

General

Historia de los países hispanohablantes - List of sites to history of many Spanish-speaking countries.
La Guerra Civil Española-The Spanish Civil War
Muslim Spain and European Culture
Library of Congress Country Studies - Click on "List of Countries" and choose your country. An excellent, reliable, and detailed resource; a good place to start for any project.
Si Spain (English) - Spanish history by era
Si Spain (Espanol) - Historia espanola por epoca
DonQuijote.org - Choose your topic (English)
Background Note: Spain - From U.S. State Department
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs - From U.S. State Department; click on links on left to find information on any country in the Western Hemisphere.
LIBRO - Library of Iberian Resources Online search engine
Atlas de Historia de Espana
Cinco de mayo
Mesoamerican Codex - Lesson Plan.

Spain: Early History

Celts & Iberians (About.com)
The Roman Presence (Si, Spain)
The Romans in Spain (Andalucia.com)
Hispania - Romans in Spain (About.com)
Hispania - Visigoths (About.com)

Spain: Middle Ages

La conquista musulmana de la peninsula iberica - In Spanish, with maps and explanations of the Muslim conquest of Spain.
Islam and Islamic History in Arabia and the Middle East - Science and Scholarship in Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus (About.com)
History of Jews in Spain
Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture - Use the green toolbar along the top of the page to navigate information about Jews in Spain (los Sefardi).
Los sefardies - En espanol.
El Cid
European Voyages of Exploration: Imperial Spain
The Golden Age - Ferdinand and Isabella (About.com)
Castile and Aragon (About.com)
Castile and Aragon - From the University of Calgary. If you proceed with the tutorial, you can find geneaologies of royalty, a biography of Queen Isabella, and descriptions of Spanish contact with indigenous American peoples.
The Galileo Project: The Inquisition- Description of the European Inquisition, which played a role in forming the Spanish Inquisition and Reconquest.
Links to the Inquisition - Provides links to information.
Spain 1516-22: The Troubled Succession of Carlos V (About.com)
Carlos V and Felipe II (About.com)

Spanish-American War (1898)

The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures - From the Library of Congress.
New York Public Library Online Exhibition of the Spanish-American War
The Panama Canal - Official website of the Panama Canal Authority.
Crucible of Empire - Online exhibit from PBS.
The World of 1898 - Online exhibit from Library of Congress.

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Fascism - Links to other websites.
They Still Draw Pictures - Drawings made by children during the Spanish Civil War. An online exhibit from the University of California, San Diego.
Guernica: Testimony of War - All about the famous painting by Pablo Picasso.
The Visual Front - Posters of the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War - Timeline and links
Spanish Civil War - More links.
ALBA-VALB - A site dedicated to the dissemination of information about the North American role in the Spanish Civil War.



POLITICS

Documents on Mexican Politics ..a repository of documents and statistics of relevance to the current Mexican political discussion
Politics and Public Administration of Spain
PSOE - Home Page of the Socialist Workers Party of Spain.



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