About
Professor Pérez
Professor
Louis Pérez, Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History.
His research interests center on nineteenth and twentieth-century Caribbean,
with emphasis on Spanish-speaking Caribbean. His most recent research project
explores the sources of Cuban nationality and identity. Professor
Pérez recently published Essays on Cuban History: Historiography
and Research (Gainesville, FL: University
of Florida Press, 1995). He has also written The
War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography
(Chapel Hill: The University
of North Carolina Press, 1998).
About
This Seminar Topic
“Legacies
of 1898: The United States, Cuba, and the Caribbean” provided a historical
overview of nearly two hundred years of relations between the United States
and the Caribbean region, with particular emphasis on Cuba. The year
1898 served as point of culmination and place of departure, the moment
when the character of the North American presence in the region was transformed,
with far-reaching implications. The events of 1898 were treated as
developments with immediate meanings and long-term consequences, within
a larger historiographical context and its place in the popular memory,
in the United States and Cuba. Future revisions to this website will
include additional information about this presentation.
Links
to Websites Related to this Topic
The
OAH's Magazine
of History issue on The War of 1898
The
Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures from the American Memory Series
in the Library of Congress
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