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Sixty newspapers spanning nearly a century of Paraguayan history. These are the voices of a nation before, during, and after the most devastating war in South American history — the War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870), which killed an estimated 90% of Paraguay's male population. Many of these pages have never been digitized before. Wartime trench newspapers like Cabichui and El Centinela were printed under artillery fire, often on captured enemy paper. Postwar titles document the painful reconstruction of a shattered society.

Scholarly works and primary-source monographs fully embedded and searchable alongside the newspapers. These provide critical context, chronology, and analysis that enriches every search result.

The European window into the Paraguay War. The Illustrated London News was Victorian Britain's premier illustrated weekly — its war correspondents and engravers produced some of the only visual documentation of the conflict seen outside South America. These issues (1864–1870) contain detailed engravings of battles, portraits of commanders, and dispatches from the front that shaped European opinion about the war.

Seventeen collections of war-era pamphlets, campaign diaries, diplomatic dispatches, and government documents. Brazilian, Argentine, French, and Paraguayan perspectives — primary sources that will allow researchers to cross-reference newspaper accounts with official military and political records.

Original multimedia productions drawing on the archive's primary sources — bringing the voices of 19th-century Paraguay to modern audiences through audio and video.