The small island nation, 90 miles from Florida, has played an outsized role in American foreign policy for nearly 70 years. As President Trump talks of "taking Cuba," tensions between Washington and ...

Join us for an in-person event with Ada Ferrer on her 2021 book Cuba: An American History, in conversation with Rachel Price. Cuba: An American History deftly weaves Ferrer’s own family history into ...

Tourist postcard of the National Casino a Marianao in Havana, c1910. History News Network This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical ...

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Prologue: There and Here -- Part I: Dispatches from The First America -- Chapter 1: Heaven and Hell -- Chapter 2: Key to the Indies -- Chapter 3: Copper Virgin -- ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jamaica, the largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean, and Cuba, the largest island in the region are old friends. They ...

Cuba is facing one of its worst crises in decades, as the Caribbean island contends with nationwide blackouts, fuel shortages and growing political uncertainty. The crisis comes as the United States ...

The House On G Street is Lisandro Perez' newest book. The title refers to the house that his grandfather built in 1920 in Vedado, Havana Cuba. "I got a sense of belonging and a sense of family in that ...

The son of a wealthy landowner, Fidel Castro turned his back on a life of privilege to lead a left-wing revolution in Cuba that endured for decades and was shaped by his political cunning, keen sense ...

Two years after historic protests against the communist-run government rocked Cuba, not much has changed. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...

Early on in her masterful book Cuba: An American History, Ada Ferrer alludes to a double meaning embedded in her subtitle: “History in the first sense refers to what happened; in the second, to what ...

During President Barack Obama’s first term, when the U.S. and Cuba initially made attempts to thaw our icy relationship, I visited the island country as part of an educational delegation. We met with ...