As a child, Marco Rubio sat at his grandfather’s feet cigar-smoke curling on the front porch as stories spilled out — tales ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Cuba is about to change. As ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

Faced with the growing challenges facing Cuba's architectural heritage due to urban deterioration, architect and urban planner Julio César Pérez-Hernández presents Courtyards of Cuba: The Tradition of ...