Vidal Morales y Morales

{{Short description|Cuban lawyer, historian, and writer (1848–1904)}}

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Vidal Morales y Morales (April 21, 1848 – August 27, 1904) was a Cuban lawyer, writer, and historian.Santiago. (1981). Cuba: La Universidad.

Biography

=Early life and education=

Vidal Morales y Morales was born on April 21, 1848, in Havana, Spanish Cuba.{{cite web|url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/morales_y_morales.htm|title=Vidal Morales y Morales |website=biografiasyvidas.com|access-date=2024-09-01}}

Morales completed his Civil Law studies at the University of Havana. He was a pupil of José Ignacio Rodríguez's teachings in Havana.McCadden, J., McCadden, H. M. (1969). Father Varela; Torch Bearer from Cuba. United States: United States Catholic Historical Society. By 1872, he had become a Doctor of Jurisprudence.American Sugar Industry. (1915). United States: R. Palmer. He was the founding secretary of the Havana Bar Association ({{langx|es|Colegio de Abogados de la Habana}}) in Havana.Santa Cruz y Mallén, F. X. d. (1940). Historia de familias cubanas. United States: Editorial Hércules.

=Cuban Anthropological Society=

On September 16, 1877, the Anthropological Society of the Island of Cuba ({{langx|es|Sociedad Antropologica de la Isla de Cuba}}) elected its new board for 1877–1878, with Morales among the members in attendance.Crónica médico-quirúrgica de La Habana. (1877). Cuba: Propaganda Literaria.

In 1882, Vidal Morales y Morales had been in contact with Marcos Jiménez de la Espada to find out if the second volume of La Guerra de Quito had been published.Morales y Morales, V., Jiménez de la Espada, M. (1882). Vidal Morales y Morales se dirige a Marcos Jiménez de la Espada para saber si se ha publicado el tomo segundo de La Guerra de Quito. (n.p.): (n.p.).

=Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country=

He attended the inauguration of the "Royal Academy of Medical, Physical, and Natural Sciences" (now the Cuban Academy of Sciences) in Havana on May 19, 1886, as a correspondent for the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country ({{langx|es|Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País}}).Anales de la Academia de ciencias medicas, físicas y naturales de la Habana: Revista científica. (1886). Cuba: Academia de Ciencias Médicas, Físicas y Naturales de la Habana..

He donated a volume to the Boston Public Library from Havana, in 1888.Document. (1890). United States: City Council.

In 1891, Morales wrote his first piece appearing in La Tertulia, a publication of Cuban cultural promotion.Cuadernos de cultura. (1934). Cuba: Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de Cultura.

By 1892, the noted biographer Morales was in possession of an unpublished manuscript for José Antonio Saco's autobiography.Revista cubana. (1892). Cuba: Soler, Alvarez y Comp..

=U.S. occupation of Cuba=

On August 2, 1899, the military governor of Cuba Leonard Wood assigned Vidal Morales y Morales to be an associate justice of Pinar del Río Province.Annual Reports of the War Department. (1900). United States: U.S. Government Printing Office.

==National Archive of Cuba==

Appointed by Gen. Wood on January 25, 1900, he began overseeing the Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba in February.Annual Report of the Secretary of War. (1901). United States: U.S. Government Printing Office. He was the founder of its bulletin.General History of the Caribbean. (1999). United Kingdom: Unesco.

In January 1901, he published "Inciadores y Primeros Mártires de la Revolución Cubana" ({{langx|en|Initiators and First Martyrs of the Cuban Revolution}}) in Havana.Wilgus, A. C. (1965). Histories and Historians of Hispanic America. United Kingdom: Cooper Square Publishers. He wrote the historical manual, Nociones de Historia de Cuba ({{langx|en|Notions of Cuban History}}), published in 1901.The Cuban Republic and José Martí: Reception and Use of a National Symbol. (2006). United Kingdom: Lexington Books. The texts were the leading textbooks on Cuban history in elementary schools. A 1902 manual for Cuba's teacher certification exam included letters by Morales, Manuel Sanguily, Nicolás Heredia, Carlos de la Torre, Manuel Valdés Rodríguez, and Esteban Borrero.Iglesias Utset, M. (2011). A Cultural History of Cuba During the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902. United States: University of North Carolina Press. It was approved by the Board of Superintendents of Public Schools of the Island of Cuba on November 25, 1903.Alvarez Conde, J. (1951). Carlos de la Torre, su vida y su obra. Cuba: Impr. 'El Siglo XX'.

In the early months of 1904, Morales y Morales had publications in the January, February, and March issues of the magazine Cuba Pedagógica.Cuba contemporanea: revista mensual. (1925). Cuba: (n.p.). His work Hombres del 68 ({{langx|en|Men of '68}}) was also published in 1904.Morales y Morales, V. (1904). Hombres del 68: Rafael Morales y González : contribución al estudio de la historia de la independencia de Cuba. Cuba: Rambla y Bouza.