This SDG seeks to examine the history of Cuba and its relationship to the United States. The core book is Ada Ferrer's Cuba: An American History which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. Ada Ferrer is the Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. She was born in Cuba and raised in the United States. The book provides a sweeping account of Cuba over 500 years from before Columbus arrived to after the death of Fidel Castro. This history details conquest, colonization, slavery, freedom, independence, and revolutions made and unmade. It is more than a history of Cuba but also a history of Cuba in relation to the United States, a history of the sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive, always uneven relationship between the two countries. Ferrer spent decades researching Cuba and draws on her own family’s history, allowing readers to see their own country refracted through the eyes of another. She delivers a stunning and monumental account.
Cuba: An American History
