# Ada Ferrer
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ada ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She was born in Havana, Cuba and migrated to the United States in 1963.
== Career ==
Ferrer holds an AB degree in English from Vassar College, 1984, an MA degree in History from University of Texas at Austin, 1988, and a PhD in History from the University of Michigan, 1995.She is currently a Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University.She has won the 2015 Frederick Douglass Prize for her book Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution.
Life Between the Cracks of History: An Immigrant Family's Story (with Ada Ferrer)
History is often told through revolutions, presidents, and wars. Historian Ada Ferrer tells it through the experience of her own family.
When Ferrer was just 11 months old, her mother fled Cuba with her in her arms, leaving behind a 9-year-old son she hoped to reunite with soon. Decades later,…
America’s Long Shadow Over Cuba with Ada Ferrer
For Ada Ferrer, making sense of the ties between the United States and Cuba has always been crucial. Brought to New Jersey as a baby, she became an immigrant before she could even talk, joining what is now a diaspora of over 2.9 million people. Ferrer went on to become one of the country's leading …
Ada Ferrer on Keeper of My Kin + T.J. English on Havana
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform.
The Cuban Revolution transformed a nation. It also ended the Mob’s dream of turning Havana into the center of a global criminal empire. And it divided families.
Writer’s Voice talks with Cuban Ameri…
Ada Ferrer on Keeper of My Kin + T.J. English on Havana & The Mob
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform.
The Cuban Revolution transformed a nation. It also ended the Mob’s dream of turning Havana into the center of a global criminal empire. And it divided families.
Writer’s Voice talks with Cuban American…
MINI EPISODE: The 14th Amendment is safe...for now (with Susan J. Pearson)
Donald Trump launched his political career by spreading the lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. He launched his second term as president trying to overturn the plain and long-held intent of the 14th Amendment. In both cases, birth certificates played a crucial role.
Histor…
A Conversation with Ada Ferrer
Ada Ferrer was born in Cuba. Her father fled the country after Fidel Castro marched into Havana. When Ferrer was a baby, her mother also left the country to join Ada's father in NY. Ferrer grew up between two worlds in a family torn apart by the Cuban revolution. But she was lucky. She got a good e…
Ada Ferrer: A Historian’s Journey to Unearth Her Own Family’s Story
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ada Ferrer has spent decades wading through archives in Havana, helping to unearth and weave the untold stories of Cuba’s people and the island. But the most personal and profound source material she has ever found was a box of letters from the brother her mother le…
358 St. Augustine & Early Florida
For much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory. It displayed this claim on maps and in the administrative units it created to govern this vast territory: New Spain and La Florida. Charles Tingley is a Senior Research Librarian at the St. Augustine…
319 Cuba: An Early American History
One of the Caribbean islands that Christopher Columbus stopped at during his 1492-voyage was an alligator-shaped island that sits at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico in between the Yucatán and Florida peninsulas. This is, of course, is the island of Cuba. What do we know about early Cuba, the islan…
Keeper of My Kin by Ada Ferrer
Imagine emigrating from your country to start a new life...but with only one of your two children. Could you do it? Would you do it? LaDonna and Jolene hash over what that must have been like for our author's mother, as they review Keeper of My Kin in this week's episode of Just Plane Books. It i…
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