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 ...

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 ...

In his speech last week announcing the "normalization" of relations with Cuba, President Obama referred to America's "colonial" history on the island. I did a double-take when I heard him say this.

Jennifer McCoy is a distinguished professor of political science at Georgia State University, Americas Program director at The Carter Center, and coauthor of International Mediation in Venezuela. The ...

In the new book, “Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana,” authors Peter Kornbluh and William LeoGrande use recently declassified documents to expose ...

For more than 60 years, the US Government has enforced a trade embargo against Cuba, ostensibly to force the communist government into collapse. The only thing ...