History 531: A Seminar in Modern Latin America

Topic: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Contemporary Perspectives

The Media

1. Local Papers (See WestCat for location information)

• Western Courier
• Macomb Journal
• Quincy Herald-Whig

• Chicago Tribune
• Los Angeles Times
• Nation
• New York Times

Offical Reports and Intelligence Sources

1. Govenment Documents and More

• CIA documents on the Cuban missile crisis, 1962 (GOVPUBS. PREX 3.17:C 89)
• CIS US serial set index (LEGLREF. Z1223.Z9 C65 1975)
• Congressional record : proceedings and debates of the ... Congress ( SPECCOL. KF35 .C6)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: 40th Anniversary (The National Security Archive. George Washington University)
• Cuban Missile Crisis Document Archive
• The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 : a case in national security crisis management (GOVPUBS. D5.410:C89)
• FAS Intelligence Resource Program: Cuba
• Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath (S 1.1:961-63/V.11)
• JFK in History: Cuban Missile Crisis (JFK Presidential Library and Museum)
• Monthly catalog of United States government publications. Cumulative index (Z1223 .A1812)
• The National Archives: Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Naval Historical Center: The Cuban Missile Crisis
• NSA and the Cuban Missible Crisis
• Public Papers of the Presidents (GOVPUBS. AE 2.114:)
• Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis (CIA. Center for the Study of Intelligence)
• The World on the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis

2. Speeches

• Vital Speeches of the Day (Periodicals, Third Floor)

Memoirs

• Aleksandr Alekseev: Karbiskii Krisis
• McGeorge Bundy: Danger and Survival
• Dwight Eisenhower: The Eisenhower Diaries
• Carlos Franqui: Family Portrait with Fidel
• Nikita S. Krushchev: Krushchev Remembers
• Robert F. Kennedy: Thirteen Days
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: A Thousand Days & Robert Kennedy and His Times
• Theodore Sorenson: Kennedy & The Kennedy Legacy

Secondary Sources

America: History and Life

Indexes and abstracts scholarly periodical articles in history. Covers North American history from ancient times to the present. Click on the Online Databases link on the library’s homepage. Note that the presence of a full-text link does not mean that WIU has the full-text version. Includes book and media reviews.

 

Historical Abstracts

Indexes and abstracts scholarly periodical articles, dissertations and book collections in history. Covers history outside of North America from the 1400s to present.

WestCat

An online catalog of the University Libraries’ books, periodicals and other library materials. Easy access from the library homepage (http://www.wiu.edu/library). Click on the “Find Books” link. If WestCat does not have what you need, search I-Share, a catalog of 65 libraries, mostly academic, in Illinois. To request a book from a non-WIU library, click on “Request” at the top of the page. Remember to enter 21711 plus your student ID number. Discover how the crisis is treated now, and in the years since 1962 by scholars textbook writers, and others. This is retrospection. See works of James G. Blight, David A. Welch, Bruce J. Allyn, Jorge I. Domingues, Philip Brenner, Herbert Matthews, John Gaddis, Ernest R. May, Philip D. Zelikow, Herbert S. Dinnerstein, Aleksandr Furensko, and Timothy Naftali.

WorldCat

One of the databases available from FirstSearch. Bibliographic records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. Includes 52 million bibliographic records. If you learn how to use this tool, you will be able to tap into a huge amount of bibliographic information, including many historical documents. From the library’s homepage, click on “search other catalogs.”