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May 20, 1902, is recognized as the official birth of the Republic of Cuba after centuries of Spanish rule (1511–1898) and a U.S. military occupation (1899–1902) that paved the way for its transition to a sovereign state.
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Ada Ferrer has spent her career exploring history, identity and memory. In her new book, "Keeper of My Kin," she turns inward, tracing her own family story across generations,
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 Havana have outlived even the late dictator Fidel Castro.
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 the vaster half-millennium of Cuban history, narrating ...
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 were at some point under Spanish and British rule.
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 battle of Yorktown during the American Revolution?
Pulitzer winner Ada Ferrer's of-the-moment new memoir, "Keeper of My Kin," examines the agonizing personal costs of the Cuban exile and the families left fractured in its wake.
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How Cuban History Broke a Family
The historian Ada Ferrer’s new family memoir retells the story of Cuba through the individuals who matter most to her.