Skip to content
Historical Figures
U. S. History
World History
Military History
Cultural History
Historical Fiction
X
cuba
An American Journalist Under Castro’s Shadow
by David Ariosto
For David Ariosto, the island of Cuba is an intriguing new world, unmoored…
Read the article
The Mafia’s President: Nixon and the Mob
by Don Fulsom Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron…
Read the article
Reserva del Comandante: Fidel Castro’s Private Account
by Juan Reinaldo Sanchez To free himself from all control, Fidel had long ago created, in…
Read the article
Hemingway and Cuba: Through the Smoke of a 102-year-old’s Cigar
by Brin-Jonathan Butler Gregorio Fuentes, the model for Hemingway’s humble Santiago in The Old Man and…
Read the article
Guarding Fidel Castro: His Double Life and Infidelity
by Juan Reinaldo Sanchez THE CASTRO DYNASTY There is nothing ordinary about Fidel Castro. He is…
Read the article
Reasons for the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Patrick Sloyan One of my goals in writing The Politics of Deception: JFK’S Secret Decisions…
Read the article
cuba
The Centennial Fire
by Chris Wimmer
The first World’s Fair on American soil ran from May 10 to November…
Read the article
War and Reconciliation
by Tom Clavin
Douglas “Pete” Peterson was born in Omaha and raised in Nebraska and Iowa.…
Read the article
The Rise of the Weimar Republic
by Susan Ronald
In the following excerpt from Hitler's Aristocrats, author Susan Ronald discusses the Weimar…
Read the article
Crary of the North…and South
by Tom Clavin
It was on May 3, 1952, that a plane landed on the North…
Read the article
Meet the White House Plumbers
by Egil "Bud" Krogh and Matthew Krogh
by Laura Dail and Matthew Krogh HBO's new miniseries White House Plumbers imagines the story of…
Read the article
A Long Journey Home
by Tom Clavin
During my recent book tour promoting the release of Follow Me to Hell,…
Read the article
The Windsors at War
by Alexander Larman
When I finished writing The Crown in Crisis, the book that has become…
Read the article
Old Houses of the West
by Sandra Dallas
Novelist Sandra Dallas joins us to discuss the inspiration behind her latest book,…
Read the article
Search
Search
Connect with The History Reader
opens in a new window
Facebook-f
opens in a new window
Twitter
Other Historical Fiction Titles