Bernie Sanders has taken some heat for praising the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s literacy program. Watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeYCIfmeW70&w=560&h=315] Carlos Eire, author of one of the best books I have read in the last decade, Waiting for Snow in Havana,...
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The Author’s Corner with Gregory Downs
Gregory Downs is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. This interview is based on his new book, The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic (University of North Carolina...
What a Historian Does During Vacation
With the first leg of the Believe Me book tour behind me, I decided to spend a few weeks in August (including an Outer Banks ,NC vacation), relaxing and consuming things that I do not usually consume during the rest of the...
150 Years of U.S.-Cuban Relations
In just over 6 minutes: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chYBlArm9Ao&w=560&h=315]...
The Religious Power of Baseball
Sean O’Neil starts his piece on the sacredness of baseball with Barack Obama’s comments in Cuba about the so-called national pastime. I did not play a lot of baseball as a kid; I was more of a basketball player, but...
Carlos Eire on Pope Francis in Cuba
Carlos Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University and a scholar of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic (Counter) Reformation. He is also a Cuban-American. Eire is an excellent religious historian, but...
Song of the Day
Desi’s on his way to Cuba (HT: Sheila McIntire on FB) [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuFG6Y80t5c]