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• John L. Plyer, Jr. Postcard Collection: contains 4 postcards from Cuba.
• Diane Hopkins-Hughs Collection: contains a National Geographic magazine from 1991 which features Cuba.

• The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies: in two volumes, Bryan Edwards, 1794
• Travels in North America during the years 1834, 1835 & 1836, including a summer residence with the Pawnee tribe of Indians in the remote prairies of the Missouri and a visit to Cuba and the Azore Islands, Sir Charles Augustus Murray, 1839
• Letters of a Traveller: or, Notes of things seen in Europe and America, William Cullen Bryant, 1850
• The homes of the New world: impressions of America, Fredrika Bremer; translated by Mary Howitt, 1853
• "Displeasure on 'Pleasure Island': Tourist Expectation and Desire on and off the Cuban Dance Floor," Jonathan Skinner, 2009. In Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism, edited by Jonathan Skinner and Dimitros Theodossopoulos, 2011.

• To Cuba and Back, Richard Henry Dana, edited and with an introduction by C. Harvey Gardiner, (reprinted in 1966)
• South and North; or, Impressions received during a trip to Cuba and the South, John S. C. Abbott, (John Stevens Cabot), (reprinted in 1969)
• Ensayo político sobre la isla de Cuba, Alexander von Humboldt, 1827
• Four French travelers in nineteenth-century Cuba, Yvon Joseph
• New year in Cuba: Mary Gardner Lowell's travel diary, 1831-1832, ed. with an introduction by Karen Robert

• La ciudad de las columnas, texto [por] Alejo Carpentie, fotos [por] Paolo Gasparini, 1970
• Havana journal, Andrew Salkey, 1971
• In Cuba, Ernesto Cardenal, translated by Donald D. Walsh, 1974
• With Fidel: a portrait of Castro and Cuba>, Frank Mankiewicz & Kirby Jones, 1975
• Trading with the enemy: a Yankee travels through Castro's Cuba, Tom Miller, 1996
• Impressions of Cuba in the nineteenth century: the travel diary of Joseph J. Dimock, edited by Louis A. Pérez
• The visit of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Cuba: an assessment of its impact on religious freedom in Cuba: hearing before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, March 4, 1998
• Cuba, Andrew Coe; photography by Rolando Pujol, 1999
• Ay, Cuba! : a socio-erotic journey, Andrei Codrescu; photographs by David Graham, 1999
• Cuba: going back, Tony Mendoza, 1999
• Real life in Castro's Cuba [electronic resource], Catherine Moses, 2000
• Robert Jackson Alexander papers, 1890 (1945) - 1999 [microform]: the interview collection, ed. by John D. French
• Cuba diaries: an American housewife in Havana, Isadora Tattlin, 2002
• Cuba on the verge: an island in transition, ed. by Terry McCoy; introduction by William Kennedy, 2003
• Last dance in Havana: the final days of Fidel and the start of the new Cuban Revolution, Eugene Robinson, 2004
• Dancing with Cuba: a memoir of the revolution, Alma Guillermoprieto; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen, 2004
• La Habana en un espejo, Alma Guillermoprieto, 2004
• The history of Havana, Dick Cluster and Rafael Hernández, 2006
• The boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's schoolmates from revolution to exile, Patrick Symmes, 2007
• Havana: autobiography of a city, Alfredo Jose Estrada, 2007
• Tratado verdadero del viaje y navegación, Fray Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa; edició crítica por Sara L. Lehman, 2008
• To change the world: my years in Cuba, Margaret Randall, 2009

• Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450, Online resource
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, Online resource
• Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, Online resource
• Oxford Scholarship Online, Online resource
• American Periodicals, Online resource
• British Periodicals, Online resource
• Sage Reference, Online resource
• Cambridge Histories Online, Online resource
• International Studies Compendium, Online resource
• Europa World Plus, Online resource
• ACLS Humanities Ebook, Online resource
• Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation [electronic resource; Ebook], Mary Louise Pratt, 1992

• Historical Maps of Cuba, from the University of Alabama's historical maps collection.
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, historical and contemporary maps of Cuba, from the University of Texas at Austin.
• Historic Maps of Cuba, from Texas A & M's digital repository.
• Cuban Heritage Collection, from the University of Miami Libraries, including digital collections and online exhibits on Cuban history and culture.
• Digital Library of the Caribbean, "a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean."
• Latin American Travelogues, a "digital collection of Latin American travel accounts written in the 16th-19th centuries" from the Brown University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
• Early American Images, online collection of images from early South and North America hosted by the Brown University library.
• Fordham University Modern History Sourcebook, Colonial Latin America, internet compilation page of resources on colonial Latin American History.
• Fordham University Modern History Sourcebook, 19th century Latin America, internet compilation page of resources on 19th century Latin American history.
• Fordham University Modern History Sourcebook, 20th century Latin America, internet compilation page of resources on 20th century Latin American history.
• BBC Archive: Cuba and the Cold War, BBC online exhibition, "from Castro's rise to power to the Cuban Missile Crisis."
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, online exhibition from the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

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