Researching Twentieth-Century Mexico

List of Mexican archives produced by the Mexican government. Includes emails, but no links to archive websites. Find links to some of the archive websites below.

Page containing links to inventories of civil and parochial archives produced by Apoyo al Desarollo de Archivos y Bibliotecas de México. This site includes detailed inventories, found nowhere else, for many small archives in Mexico.

Includes list of members and a guide to the contents of member archives.

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History article on Mexico City's archives and libraries and their digital resources.

Information, collection inventories, and online database for materials held in the Archivo General de la Nación.

El CEMOS resguarda la documentación oficial del Partido Comunista Mexicano (PCM), del Partido Obrero Campesino Mexicano (POCM), del Partido Socialista Unificado de México (PSUM), del Partido Mexicano Socialista (PMS), entre otros; y posee archivos personales de algunas destacadas. Además cuenta con una hemeroteca y una biblioteca especializada en el tema de las izquierdas y los movimientos sociales en México.

Retains historic collections related to the functioning of the UNAM. Includes materials related to the events of 1968. Some materials digitized. Note that there are other archives at the UNAM as well.

Includes information on consulting collections and details on contents of fondo reservado and fondo contemporáneo.

Digitized contents of Hemeroteca Nacional de México.

Includes information on consulting and contents of fondo reservado and fondo contemporáneo.

Includes materials produced by and related to the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores.

UNAM and Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco project providing access to documents related to 1968.

UNAM 1968 exhibit, with some digitized documents. Likely overlaps with M68 site.

MIDAS, the Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (los Archivos del Autoritarismo Mexicano), is a crowd-sourced, public access digital archive of historical documents from the Mexican intelligence agencies.

This digital collection (under construction from July 2015-July 2018) is provided open access through a partnership between the University of New Mexico Libraries, the Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elias Calles y Fernando Torreblanca (FAPECFT) and the Universidad de Colima. It includes 300,000 digitized documents in Spanish and English from the Fondos Álvaro Obregón, Plutarco Elías Calles, and Fernando Torreblanca, located physically at the Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elias Calles y Fernando Torreblanca (FAPECFT) in Mexico City.