Trinidad and Tobago has worked to preserve its historical record through the Eric Williams Memorial Collection at the University of the West Indies Library in St. Augustine, Trinidad
The Eric Williams Memorial Collection was opened at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine in 1998. The collection commemorates Eric Eustace Williams, who led Trinidad and Tobago to independence in 1962
"It is not possible to separate his intellectual legacy from his political stewardship over the affairs of Trinidad and Tobago for some twenty-five years. The inventory of failure and achievement will undergo great variations according to the angle of vision and sectoral interests which are being reflected. For a quarter of a century he would have been at the center of the most controversial exchanges at both the national and the regional level: Federation, Chaguaramas, Independence, The University of the West Indies, CARICOM, Cuba, Grenada, and his own February Rebellion of 1970." (author)
A personal and political analysis of Eric Williams' contribution to nationalist ideas and to the way nationalism was perceived and was directly or indirectly beneficial to many of Mohammed's generation
