Pan-American Exposition

Throughout the 1950s, Havana served as “a hedonistic playground for the world’s elite,” filled with gambling joints, jazz, and brothels, moneyed by the mob, politicians, and aristocrats. The playwright Arthur Miller described Batista’s Cuba in The Nation as “hopelessly corrupt, a Mafia playground, [and] a bordello for Americans and other foreigners

The Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, is now a museum. The facade of the motel has been left intact. Visitors are allowed to enter room 306, where Martin Luther King stayed right before his assassination.

On March 1, 1954, shortly after the UN’s decision, four nationalists entered the House of Representatives in Washington. They made their way to the upstairs gallery, unfurled a Puerto Rican flag, and shouted “¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!” Then they pulled out pistols and fired twenty-nine rounds into the body politic below. It was, the Speaker of the H

THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD, headlines now bannered, such epithets as “Flagler’s Folly” long forgotten. He had arrayed before him thousands of grateful citizens, along with a multitude of foreign dignitaries and government officials come to pay homage to what had been accomplished solely because of his vision and his unswerving devotion to that