Decades ago, Ada Ferrer learned a lesson about what she’d later call the “misencounter between the history I was reading and the history of the people in my life.” During the late 1980s, while ...

Most Americans probably know the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 in Havana Harbor led to the Spanish-American War and helped liberate Cuba from Spain. But do they know that Cuban silver funded the ...

A gorilla “taught to eat filets mignons” with a knife and fork and shake hands with strangers provides the unlikely title to ...

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 -- ...

In 2022, historian Ada Ferrer won a Pulitzer Prize for her acclaimed Cuba: An American History, which traced the island’s entwined relationship with the United States. Her latest book, Keeper of My ...

Cuba is in economic freefall — driven by a de facto oil blockade instituted by the United States. US President Donald Trump has been clear that he hopes this will lead to the collapse of Cuba’s ...

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 ...

If anyone mentions Cuba's Barrio Chino or the history of Chinese Cubans, it's usually in reference to culinary traditions that were brought to places like Miami and New York City after the Cuban ...

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MIAMI—Thirty years after Cuban fighter jets blasted two small civilian planes out of the sky over the Florida Straits, killing four men connected to the Miami exile group Brothers to the Rescue, the ...