{"id":2633,"date":"2023-01-22T19:12:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=2633"},"modified":"2023-02-10T10:34:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:34:36","slug":"writing-between-personal-and-international-history-cuba-an-american-history","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/event\/writing-between-personal-and-international-history-cuba-an-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Between Personal and International History: Cuba: An American History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The<\/em> Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Lecture<\/em>, sponsored by the Department of History, is pleased to welcome Professor Ada Ferrer<\/strong>, Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean History at New York University, to present<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing Between Personal and International History: Cuba: An American History<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2022 Pulitzer Prize winner in History<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued\u2014through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Ra\u00fal Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country\u2019s future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington\u2014Barack Obama\u2019s opening to the island, Donald Trump\u2019s reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden\u2014have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more.

Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History<\/em> provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States\u2014as well as the author\u2019s own extensive travel to the island over the same period\u2014this is a stunning and monumental account like no other.<\/p>\n\n\n

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