Cuban Special Period: Selections from Nancy Alonso, Closed for Repairs and Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s (New Directions in Latino American Cultures)
History of the 1959 revolution: Selected readings from A Cuban Revolution Reader: A Documented History of 40 Years of the Cuban Revolution
History of the Spanish Cuban American War: Clayton, Conniff, Gauss, A New History of Modern Latin America: (pp. 230-31, 240-48). and Perez, Louis A., Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution: Chapter. 5.