Supplemental Materials
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Considering its Place in Cold War History
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Considering its Place in Cold War History probes the complex relationship between the United States and Cuba, and examines the crisis that brought the world to the brink of war. The unit incorporates groundbreaking research on the Cuban missile crisis.
Online Resources from the Choices Program
Scholars Online
Bring university scholars into your classrooms with videos featuring top scholars answering specific question in his or her field of expertise.Teacher Developed Online Lesson Plans
As part of a Teaching American History Summer Institute at Brown University, participating teachers worked in groups to develop web-based lessons on the Cuban missile crisis drawing on the scholarship shared at the institute. These units are available from this site.
- At What Price the Truth?
- Colin Powell—A New Adlai Stevenson?
- If We Knew Then What We Know Now
- Investigating the Cuban Perspective
- Three Perspectives
The Fog of War Teacher's Guide and Accompanying Online Resources
Additional lesson plans on the Cuban missile crisis (and other topics in the history of American foreign policy) are available from the Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War. Accompanying online resources are available.
Web Links
Critical Oral History: Cuban Missile Crisis and Risk of Nuclear War in the 21st Century
An overview of the research of the Watson Institute on this the Cuban missile crisisThe National Security Archive
Collections of documents and photos, as well as recordings of ExComm meetingsThe Cold War International History Project
(Go to "programs" "Cold War International History Project")
Newly available documents, many from the Soviet perspective, and analysis of eventsThe Miller Center of Public Affairs White House Tapes
Transcripts and audio from President Kennedy's recordings, plus online exhibits to help students and teachers navigate the volume of material available90 Miles
A PBS show on Cuba (Many resources on Cuba and U.S.-Cuba relations, both current and historical)
Books
Beschloss, Michael R. The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 (New York: Harper Collins, 1991). 816 pages.
Blight, James G., and David A. Welch, eds. Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis (London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1998). 234 pages.
Blight, James G., Bruce J. Allyn, and David A. Welch, Cuba on the Brink, Castro, The Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002). 537 pages.
Chang, Laurence, and Peter Kornbluh, eds. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader (New York: The New Press, 1998). 429 pages.
May, Ernest R., and Philip D. Zelikow, eds. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997). 728 pages.
