Education and Cuba Libre, 1898-1958

Laurie Johnston explores the significance of public education in Cuba's efforts to forge a national identity in a period of US intervention.

Cuban schoolchildren in a classroom in the province of Guantánamo. Photo by Mikhail EvstafievThe last Spanish colony in the Americas, Cuba launched a second war for independence in 1895, more than half a century after the establishment of independent republics in the rest of Spanish America. However, the intellectual war against Spanish domination began earlier, before the first failed revolution of 1868-78.

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