A 1950s Chevy is the centerpiece of the Museum of Natural History's ''¡Cuba!'' exhibit, but the island's diverse natural habitat is given short shrift. Stefano Giovannini Most Americans hadn’t been ...
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 ...
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. The Spanish were the ...
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 ...
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 ...
HAVANA — Nestled in his bedroom studio under vinyl records and a cluster of microphones, DJ Milano makes electronic music that combines traditional Cuban sounds with modern beats. It is a tortuous ...
Ada Ferrer is the Julius Silver professor of history and Latin American and Caribbean history at New York University and the author of “Cuba: An American History.” Cuba is one country and many myths.
In recent years "making poverty history" has become the fashionable cause for ageing rock stars such as Bono and Sir Bob Geldof. As global poverty means that each year 9 million children die of ...
On Dec. 21, 110 years ago today, the LSU football team boarded the Cuba-bound steamship S.S. Chalmette to play what was likely the first postseason college football game on foreign soil. The Christmas ...