The Cuban Revolution and the United States

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This course examines the historical relationship between the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and the United States from multiple perspectives: between the US and Cuban governments, between Cubans both for and against the Revolution, between a diversity of US Americans and postrevolutionary Cuba, and others. We will begin with the origins of the Cuban Revolution and the critical role of the United States in them and then analyze postrevolutionary Cuban-US relations drawing on a variety of sources, including memoirs, speeches, oral histories, declassified documents, and various media productions (newspapers, magazines, documentaries, film, and so forth).