HIST 6360 (Dr. Vizzini): Seminar in Latin American History

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JFK's Foreign Affairs and International Crises, 1961-1963

Digitized documents from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library from the years 1958 to 1964. 1073 documents in 64,126 page images. Provides insights into the Bay of Pigs, Berlin, Cuba, American efforts to support Third World countries, balance of payments and foreign trade, Alliance for Progress and relations with Latin America, nuclear weapons and testing, NATO and the Multilateral Force in Europe, Southeast Asia and regional security, foreign aid and military assistance, the international space race, as President Kennedy's views on foreign affairs, U.S. leadership of the "West," and various worldwide crises.

Cuban Missile Crisis Collection from the Cold War International History Project.

A Virtual Archive of the Wilson Center.

Cuban Missile Crisis documents from The Avalon Project.

At Yale University.

Cuban Missile Crisis documents from the National Security Archive.

At George Washington University.

U.S. charges of Soviet military build-up in Cuba

Statements by Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. Representative in the Security Council.

Government Documents Dept. - US Documents Shelves

The U.S. response to Soviet military buildup in Cuba : report to the people October 22, 1962

President Kennedy.

Government Documents Dept. - US Documents Shelves

CIA documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Central Intelligence Agency ; editor, Mary S. McAuliffe. (Also online.)

Che Guevara on revolution : a documentary overview

Edited and with an introd. by Jay Mallin.

Cuban Crisis of 1962 : selected documents and chronology

Edited by David L. Larson.

We have digital access to the 1960s editions of the New York Times and the Dallas Morning News, among others. We also have on microfilm those and the newspapers from Canyon, Amarillo, Austin, Tulia, and St. Louis, plus the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

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