This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The article claims that most historiography of the Cuban revolution of 1959 has omitted women, people of colour, and to some extent ...

The need for reform soon gave way to the need for revolution. Led by sugar planter Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the Cuban Revolution began in 1868. Cespedes proclaimed independence and formed the ...

The central leaders of the 1895 Cuban revolution were Maximo Gomez, ,Calixto Garcia, and Jose Marti. Gomez (1836-1905), who had dedicated more than half of his life to make Cuba free, became the ...

The roots of U.S.-Cuba relations stretch back to the colonial era, long before the Cuban Revolution. In 1776, Spain opened Cuban ports to North American merchants, establishing early trade ties.