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Finding Aid:
Historical Research and Writing:
Cuban Missile Crisis

The following selective list of print and online resources has been compiled by McGovern Library staff as a starting point for research on the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is not a complete listing of related materials held by McGovern Library or available online, but is intended to serve as a guide to some of the Library's resources, and as a pointer to a variety of electronic resources.

Historiography Sources

Books available in McGovern Library:

• Doing Oral History : A Practical Guide by Donald A. Ritchie (D16.14 .R57 2003)
• History : A Student's Guide to Research and Writing by Robert Skapura and John Marlowe
• Historians in Trouble : Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower by Jon Wiener (E175.45 .W54 2005)
• Modern Historiography : An Introduction by Michael Bentley
• How to Write History That People Want to Read by Ann Curthoys & Ann McGrath
• Lonergan and Historiography: : The Epistemological Philosophy of History by Thomas J. McPartland
• New Ways of History : Developments in Historiography edited by Gelina Harlaftis ... [et al.]
• Past, Present & Personal : Teaching Writing in U.S. History by William C. Kashatus (E175.8 .K266 2002)
• Practicing History : Selected Essays by Barbara W. Tuchman (D13 .T83 1981)
• Writing History : A Guide for Students by William Kelleher Storey (D16 .S864 2004)

Encyclopedias And Reference Sources

• Annals of America (REF E173 .A793 Vol. 18)
• Cold War Reference Library
• Congress and the Nation: 1945-1964 (REF KF49 .C653 v.1 1945-64)
• Dictionary of American History (REF. E174 .D52 2003)
• Digest of International Law (REF JX237 .W55)
• Encyclopedia of American History (REF E174 .E53 2010)
• Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence
• Encyclopedia of the Cold War (REF D840 .E63 2008)
• Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations (REF E183.7 .E53 1997)
• An Encyclopedia of War and Ethics
• Latino History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (REF E184 .S75 L3622 2010)
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (REF E184 .S75 O97 2005)
• Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History (REF E169.12 .P654 2007)
• West's Encyclopedia of American Law

Searching the Library Catalog

• Subject searches:
  "cuba history"
  "cuba history revolution"
  "cuban missile crisis"
  "cuba foreign relations united states"
  "cuba foreign relations soviet union" "Fidel Castro"
  "Nikita Khrushchev
  etc.

Print Indexes

Print indexes available in McGovern Library*:

• International Index (changed to Social Sciences & Humanities Index with vol. 19)
  • v. 21 and later use:
    "Cuba" and its various subheadings
    "Cuban crisis, 1962"
• Public Affairs Information Service
  • v. 45 and later use:
    "Cuba" and its various subheadings
    "United States--Foreign relations--Cuba"
    "United States--Foreign relations--Russia"
    "Russia--Foreign relations--Cuba"
    "Russia and Cuba"
    "Russians in Cuba"
    
• Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
  • v. 21 and later use:
    "Cuba" and its various subheadings
    "United States--Foreign relations--Cuba"
    "United States--Foreign relations--Russia"
    "Russia--Foreign relations--Cuba,"

*Note: Contemporary print indexes will be especially useful in locating articles on this topic. Print indexes are shelved upstairs north of the newspapers.

Online Databases

• EBSCO Fulltext Databases: abstracts, citations and full-text articles
  • Search the Subjects Index and select from headings such as "Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962," or "Cold War,"
  • Use the People Index to locate articles on "Fidel Castro," "John F. Kennedy," etc.
  • Combine searches using the Search History tab.
• JSTOR (full-text articles)
• Topic searches such as "Cuban Missile Crisis," or "Kennedy" and "Cuba"
• Proquest Research Library: abstracts, citations and full-text articles.
• Topic searches such as "Cuban Missile Crisis," or "Cold War,"
• Archive Grid (on campus only)
• Archive Grid provides online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. Researchers can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
• Topic searches such as "Cuban Missile Crisis," "John F. Kennedy," "Dean Rusk," etc.

Newspaper Databases

• Access Newspaper Archive
• New York Times Historical
• Newsbank

Periodicals

Periodicals available in McGovern Library (print, microfiche, and electronic)

• Congressional Digest
• Congressional Record
• Foreign Relations of the United States (1861 - 1958/1960 [375 volumes]) -- a digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States available from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.
• Foreign Relations of the United States (1945/1950 - 1969/1976) -- available from the U.S. State Department.

Online Resources

• The Avalon Project: The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Documents in law, history, and diplomacy from the Yale Law School library.
• The Cold War International History Project
• Cuban Government Documents
• Cuban History: Missile Crisis
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- from Northern Virginia Community College
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 18-29, 1962 -- from History and Politics Out Loud, a searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics.
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Political Perspective After 40 Years (The National Security Archive) -- An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: Cuban Missile Crisis -- from Mt. Holyoke College.
• John F Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Scholarly essay on the BBC's Cold War History site.
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
• The National Security Archive -- An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
• No Time to Talk: The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Site done by Carl A. Young, a National Guard officer with a Master's in History from George Mason University. Includes a chronology, selective primary sources, and a bibliography.
• Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba, October 22, 1962 -- Audio recording of President John F. Kennedy’s radio and television address to the nation regarding the former Soviet Union’s military presence in Cuba.
• World on the Brink:John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Online exhibit produced by the JFK Presidential Library and Museum. Includes primary sources.

Videos

• Cold War. Vol. 4 (VT 1544)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis (VT 843)
• The Cuban Crisis, 1962/10/25 (1962)
• Crisis Eases. Wary U.S. Awaits Missile Removal, 1962/10/29 (1962)
• Fidel Castro: History of a Commander
• John F. Kennedy: In His Own Words
• Missile Bases. Castro Balks At U.N. Team, 1962/11/01 (1962)
• The Missiles of October (DVD 170)
• Nikita Khrushchev: Fidel Castro
• The Red Threat. President Orders Cuban Blockade, 1962/10/22 (1962)
• Superpower
• Superpowers Collide
• Symposium on Intelligence and the Cuban Missle Crisis 1962 (1992)
• Tell Me Cuba
• Thirteen Days (DVD 043)
• The UN Security Council: Keeping the Peace
• Universal Newsreels: The Red Threat --President Orders Cuban Blockade (10/22/1962)
• Universal Newsreels: Crisis Eases --Wary U.S. Awaits Missile Removal (10/29/1962)
• What Kennedy Didn't Know: Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited

Intelligence Sites

• CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- 354 page volume that includes many of the CIA's most important documents on the Cuban missile crisis.
• Cuban Missile Crisis -- Declassified documents form the National Security Agency.
• The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962: Presenting the Photographic Evidence Abroad -- describes the experiences of Sherman Kent and other senior CIA officers in briefing the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Canada on the reasons behind US actions in the Cuban Missile Crisis
• DIA'S (Defense Intelligence Agency) John Hughes and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
• Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis: Learning from the Past -- paper written by James H. Hansen, formerly employed by the CIA.

Military Sources: Archives, Museums, etc.

• The 32nd Guards Air Fighter Regiment in Cuba (1962-1963) -- Translation from a book on a Soviet Air Force unit stationed in Cuba. Includes interviews of participants.
• Army History Center
• Military Resources: Bay of Pigs Invasion & Cuban Missile Crisis -- from the National Archives
• Military Resources: Military Resources: The Cold War and the Marshall Plan -- from the National Archives
• The National Museum of the Marine Corps and Heritage Center
• USAF Museum
• US Army Center of Military History
• US Army Military History Institute
• US Navy Historical Center
• The USMC Archives and Special Collections
• USS MULLINNIX DD-944 - 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis -- From the Web site of the U.S. Navy Destroyer "Mullinnix" (DD 944) which participated in the "naval quarantine" of Cuba.

Bibliographies

• Bibliography on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Short Bibliography
• Cuban Missile Crisis: Bibliography
• Cuban Missile Crisis Bibliography -- From the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues.