Day: March 2, 2015

Front facade of Houghton Library

New Exhibit: Occupied Cuba, 1898-1902

The years between the end of the Cuban War of Independence in 1898, facilitated by United States involvement as part of the Spanish-American War, and the proclamation of the Cuban Republic in 1902, were a time of much change and transition in Cuba. After the last of the Spanish troops left Cuba in 1898, the…