Following the history of Cuba and its complex, deep-rooted ties to the United States, Cuban-American historian Ada Ferrer will be hosting a lunch in collaboration with The Prologue Society while
Following the history of Cuba and its complex, deep-rooted ties to the United States, Cuban-American historian Ada Ferrer will be hosting a lunch in collaboration with The Prologue Society while
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 the vaster half-millennium of Cuban history, narrating both the island’s epic past and the lesser-known struggles of everyday people, from the beginning of Iberian colonialism in the Americas through Cuba’s histories of enslavement, anti-slavery, and revolution. Along the way Ferrer signals how Cuba’s modern history is inextricable from that of the United States. Building upon the author’s prior landmark studies Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 and Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution, Cuba: An American History is a “page-turning masterpiece…rarely is good history this kind of literary performance” (David W. Blight, Yale University, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom).
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