Cuban Studies Institute

Philanthropist.  Born in Santa Clara to a very wealthy family, she believed that great wealth implied a duty and should be used for social welfare.  She paid for the construction of a […]

Born in Matanzas province, December 17, his family took him to the United States on the outbreak of the Ten Years’ War and thence to Mexico, where his father settled

President of Cuba, 1909-1913.  Born in Sancti Spiritus, he was barely out of school when he joined the rebels in the Ten Years’ War and subsequent Guerra Chiquita.  During the

The first president of an independent Cuba, 1902-1906.  Born near Bayamo, July 9, he attended schools in Havana and the University of Seville, from where family matters forced his return before

Santiago-born entrepreneur, writer, and journalist.  At only 24 he was honored by the Liceo of Puerto Principe for his Conveniencia de reservar a la mujer ciertos trabajos.  He was imprisoned in1876 for revolutionary

Revolutionary general, second in command to Máximo Gómez Báez in both the Ten Years’ War and the Independence War of 1895-1898.  Born in Holguín, the second of eight children, he was

Poet, born in Camagüey, she achieved recognition as one of the greatest poets of the Spanish language.  She used the pseudonym “La Peregrina” in most of her writings.  She excelled in lyric poetry, but

A much-quoted neoclassical poet, best known for his ode Al Niágara, written in 1824 after a visit to the waterfall.  Other well-known poems include En el Teocalli de Cholula (1820), El Himno del