As the Caribbean recovers from the hurricane, Cuba’s response offers lessons for a region facing stronger storms.

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 ...

Author Lisandro Pérez knows Cuba’s long history: a Spanish colony, the British occupation, wars of independence, U.S. military occupation, the Batista dictatorship and the Castro revolution. In his ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

A look at the history of U.S.–Cuba relations, from decades of hostility to Obama’s historic trip that shifted the ...

Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world back from the brink of nuclear war by ...

Off the coast of Cuba, submerged structures are proving to be a headache for the scientific community. Discovered at a depth of 650 metres, they might belong to a city much older than the pyramids of ...

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 ...

After tearing across Jamaica, Melissa moved northeast toward Cuba, making its second landfall along the southern coast of ...

Since Vladimir Putin’s devastating invasion of Ukraine, much of the world has aligned to decry the bloodshed and to sanction Russia for its dangerous violation of international norms. As many nations ...

Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, the strongest in the island's history, killing at least seven ...