MIAMIHERALD: “Students of Cuba flock to UM’s Cuban Heritage Collection”

Hynson is one of 10 graduate fellows doing research at the University of Miami’s Otto G. Richter Library this year. Thanks to a new fellowship program, she can spend most of her days poring though the Cuban Heritage Collection — a repository of books, papers, periodicals, plays, manuscripts, photos, maps, video and other materials about Cuba from the 1520s to the present — on someone else’s dime.
The collection is the largest trove of historical and cultural materials outside Cuba. It also is a repository of materials documenting the Cuban exile and Cuban-American experience, with 15.000 exile periodicals, for example.