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Digital Collections at Princeton
- Caribbean documents collection, 1699-1959. [Part of Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive]
The Caribbean Documents collection, 1699–1959, from the University of Miami, contains correspondence and other documents from Caribbean islands, such as Jamaica, Barbados, Tobago, and Cuba. The correspondence offers details about day-to-day life on plantations. The collection also includes registers of enslaved people. Other documents of interest include details about a Cuban revolutionary who fled to the United States, demonstrating the connection between Cuba and the American South in the 1850s... Taken together, the documents in this collection paint a picture of the institution of slavery as it spanned centuries in the Caribbean.
- Cuban culture and cultural connections, 1959-. Casa de las Américas
- Part 1: Primary-source collection of approximately 45,000 fully-searchable documents from the Casa de las Américas in Havana, documenting the culture and cultural relations of Revolutionary Cuba and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The 45,000 documents are organized in 545 folders, covering such diverse materials as articles, newspaper clippings, cable messages, interviews, conference memorabilia, etc., collected from 1959 onward. Together they document the activities of the institution both in Cuba and beyond, bearing testimony to the conflicts and passions of a turbulent time.
- Part 2: This primary-source collection documents the literary, intellectual and cultural milieu of Revolutionary Cuba. Sourced from the archives of the Casa de las Américas in Havana, it provides unprecedented access to files covering more than a thousand writers, thinkers and artists from Cuba and abroad.
- Part 3: This primary source collection documents the history of theater in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a special focus on Revolutionary Cuba.
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Digital National Security Archive
Presents an integrated, comprehensive record of U.S. decisionmaking during the most dangerous U.S.-Soviet confrontation in the nuclear era. Some 3,400 unique records relevant to the crisis, totalling approximately 17,500 pages, are reproduced. Much of the documentation focuses on U.S. decisionmaking during what Robert Kennedy called the "Thirteen Days" of the missile crisis--from McGeorge Bundy's October 16, 1962 briefing of President Kennedy on the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba to Nikita Khrushchev's October 28 decision to withdraw the weapons. The numerous intelligence reports, diplomatic cables, political analyses, military situation reports, and meeting minutes included in the set portray both the deliberative process and the execution of critical decisions made by the Kennedy administration during the crisis.
- The Cuban missile crisis revisited: an international collection of documents, from the Bay of Pigs to the brink of nuclear war. Digital National Security Archives
A multinational set of records--declassified documentation from the United States, the Soviet Union, Cuba and other key countries--covering events leading up to and through the missile crisis in 1962. Consisting of 1,463 documents providing details that have reshaped our understanding of history, the collection covers the CIA-led invasion at the Bay of Pigs, covert operations leading up to the Soviet installation of intermediate range weapons in Cuba, the crisis itself as it played out in Washington, Moscow and Havana, the negotiations to end the crisis--between the U.S. and the Soviets, and between the Soviets and Fidel Castro--and international relations between these key actors in the aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal of its nuclear weapons. Beyond formerly top-secret records from the three main participants, the collection includes illuminating documents culled from the secret archives of other countries such as Canada, Great Britain, Brazil, Hungary and other nations that played a role.
- Despatches from U.S. consuls in Havana, Cuba, 1783-1906
Digitized version of microfilm collection containing reports to the Department of State from diplomatic representatives of the United States stationed in Havana including notes, correspondence, clippings, and other materials exchanged with foreign officials. They also include correspondence from various sources including other consuls, local officials, private citizens or U.S. Naval commanders stationed in foreign waters. As the principal population center of the island the most varied and extensive reports came through the Havana consuls. The collection covers a crucial period of Cuban, European, and U.S. foreign relations spanning the end of British occupation with the Treaty of Paris in 1783 when Havana was the third largest city in the Americas (larger than New York), to the rapid expansion of trade with the U.S. in the late 18th Century and running through the independence wars, the Spanish-American War with subsequent imposition of the Platt Amendment and the U.S. intervention of 1906. The collection can serve researchers interested in U.S. expansionism; Atlantic slavery as well as Cuban history and has the virtue of containing materials related to a broad range of political, economic and social concerns.
- Despatches From U.S. Ministers to Cuba, 1902–1906
Digitized version of microfilm collection containing reports to the Department of State from diplomatic representatives of the United States stationed in Cuba including notes, correspondence, clippings and other materials exchanged with foreign officials, local officials, and private citizens. The records cover the turbulent first five years of the Republic of Cuba following the end of Spanish rule (1898) and U.S. military occupation (1898-1902) and the subsequent U.S. occupation in 1906.
- Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents
The documents in this collection, most of which are in Spanish, fall into three categories: works by feminists about feminists and their causes, works by men on the status of women, and literary works by feminist writers that illustrate or discuss the condition of women. The first group contains memoirs of feminist congresses, collections of essays by feminists, journals published by feminist organizations, and published speeches and radio broadcasts. Among the publications are Aspiraciones (1918), an early feminist journal published by the Partido Feminista Aspiraciones; La Mujer Moderna (1926), the journal for the Club Femenino de Cuba, the oldest Cuban feminist organization; and La Mujer (1929-1931), the journal of the Partido Demócrata Sufragista, focusing on the entire Cuban feminist movement. The second group consists of assessments by politicians, jurists, and legislators about the condition of women in the cities and countryside. These materials provide an in-depth view of the ruling elite's perception on the reform of laws to improve the status of women. The third group contains excerpts from novels, essays and poetry written by women about women. Also included are literary anthologies of Cuban women writers in general as well as literary analysis of these women's works. [Originally available as microfilm set titled Stoner Collection on Cuban Feminism]
- John F. Kennedy national security files, 1961-63. Latin America. First supplement, Cuba
This collection of National Security Files contains three sections: General, Cables, and Subjects. The General section lives up to its organizational name in that it covers general developments in U.S.-Cuba and U.S.-USSR relations, and policy options of all three countries. Substantive issues are covered in the Subjects section. The Cables section chronicles international relations regarding Cuba through an extensive volume of diplomatic cables. The cables document general issues in U.S.-Cuba, U.S.-USSR, and Cuba-USSR relations, and include day-to-day reporting on interactions and policy regarding Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis features prominently in the day-to-day reporting in this section. The next section is the Subject files for Cuba. This section highlights an extensive array of subjects in U.S.-Cuba relations and includes a large number of CIA and other intelligence reports that assess issues such as Cuban exile activity, Castro's activities in Latin America, Cuban and Soviet military postures, trade with Cuba, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Latin American anarchist and labour periodicals Online
This extensive collection of periodicals includes 36 titles published in Cuba starting in the late 19th century.
- Records of the Department of State relating to political relations between the U.S. and Cuba, 1910–1929
This collection contains records from the decimal files of the Department of State concerning political relations between the U.S. and Cuba from 1910-1929. Areas of research supported by this collection include: 1912 Race War; Cuban export of sugar to Great Britain during World War I; Evaristo Estenoz; Jose de Jesus Monteagudo; Little War of 1917; Partido Independiente de Color and the attempt to establish a separate black republic in Oriente Province; Platt Amendment of 1901 and the lease of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base; President Aurelio Mario Garcia Menocal; President Gerardo Machado y Morales; sugar production as a dominant factor in the Cuban economy; and U.S. involvement in Cuban affairs, especially pertaining to the Platt Amendment.
- Slavery, abolition & social justice
This resource brings together primary source documents from archives and libraries across North America and the UK. A relatively small though significant amount deals with Cuba.