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Historical Research and Sources on El Salvador

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago
Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago*
Affiliation:
New School for Social Research
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The recent return of peace to El Salvador is providing increasingly favorable conditions for scholarly research. This encouraging climate will help Salvadoran and guest researchers make up for years of difficult and repressive conditions. Some researchers may begin by examining contemporary questions related to the recent revolutionary process, but historical research should also be greatly facilitated. Entrepreneurial searches for archival materials on the period preceding the mid-twentieth century can be surprisingly successful when one combines a national outlook with careful regional probing. This research note will provide a guide to archival and other historical materials available in the United States and El Salvador and will place these sources in the context of major questions left unanswered by the historiography covering 1700 to 1940.

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Research Reports and Notes
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 1995 , pp. 151 - 176
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Copyright © 1995 by the University of Texas Press

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Research for this note was carried out between 1987 and 1991 with the support of a Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship, a Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, a Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship, and various travel grants and general fellowships from the Consortium for Institutional Cooperation and the University of Chicago.

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