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 -- Part II: A Colony Worth a Kingdom -- Chapter 4: Havana ...

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 ...

This Day in History: The Cuban Missile Crisis came to an end starting on Oct. 28, 1962 MONROE, La. (KNOE) - In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union were at a stand-off for 13 days. U.S. spy planes had discovered construction of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba.

October 22 has been a date marked by a wide array of significant events that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of the most impactful

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

In the Bahamas, the largest island of which lies around 400 miles north of Haiti, hurricane conditions are expected to produce life-threatening storm surges in the south-east and centre of the country. Further east, tropical storm conditions and significant storm surges are expected in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba this morning as a slightly weaker Category 3 storm after blasting Jamaica with winds of up to 185mph - some of the strongest in its history

A powerful Category 5 Hurricane Melissa has begun its assault on Jamaica on Tuesday with the threat of  “catastrophic flash flooding, landslides, and destructive winds,” according to the National