Cuban Missile Crisis: the View from Havana
For 13 days in October 1962 the world watched Cuba with bated breath. What was the view like from the epicentre of the missile crisis?
Cuba
Cuban Perestroika
Tracing the decline of socialism through the lives of ordinary Cubans.
A Revolutionary of Letters
The deft epistolary prose of Che Guevara, self-styled prophet.
Castro’s Honeymoon
Holding court to the world in a hotel in Harlem.
Saving Old Havana
Cuba’s built heritage owes a personal debt.
Our Graham Greene in Havana
The author’s trips to Cuba had an impact on more than just literature.
My Good Friend Roosevelt
Were US-Cuban relations soured for the want of ten dollars?
A Splendid Little War
Roger Hudson sheds light on an 1898 image of US soldiers fighting alongside Cubans to end Spanish rule on the Caribbean island.
Cuba’s Role in American History, Part II
Arnold Whitridge offers his survey of American relations with Cuba from the intervention of 1898 down to Castro’s Revolution.
The Spanish-American War
During a short-lived phase of expansionism the United States wrested Cuba and the Philippines from their Spanish rulers.