Publications by Dr. Antonio Rafael de la Cova

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Cuban Confederate Colonel

Books:

The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution. University of South Carolina Press, June 2007; 2nd. printing, October 2007.

Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio Jose Gonzales. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003; paperback printing, Feb. 5, 2009.
 

Book chapters:

"El coronel Henry Theodore Titus: Un aventurero en Cuba, Kansas y Nicaragua" in Victor Hugo Acuña Ortega, ed., Filibusterismo y Destino Manifiesto en las Américas. San Jose, Costa Rica: Museo Histórico Cultural Juan Santamaría, 2010, pp. 91-102.

"Prologue," in Jorge Hernandez Fonseca, e-mails al Comandante. Belém, Brazil: Editora Belém do Para, 2006, pp.5-7.

"U.S.-Cuba Relations During the Reagan Administration," in Eric J. Schmertz, Natalie Datlof and Alexej Ugrinsky, eds. President Reagan and the World. Conn: Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 381-391.
 

Academic journals:

Samuel J. Kookogey in Bleeding Kansas: A "Fearless vindicator of the rights of the South," Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains (Fall 2012)

"Cuban Exiles in Key West During the Ten Years' War 1868-1878," Florida Historical Quarterly. Winter 2011, 287-319.

"The Kentucky Regiment that Invaded Cuba in 1850," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Autumn, 2007, pp. 571-615.

"Fernandina Filibuster Fiasco: Birth of the 1895 Cuban War of Independence," Florida Historical Quarterly. Summer 2003, pp. 16-42.

"The Taylor Administration Versus Mississippi Sovereignty: The Round Island Expedition of 1849,"The Journal of Mississippi History. Winter 2000, pp. 1-33.

"Filibusters and Freemasons: The Sworn Obligation," Journal of the Early Republic, Spring 1997, pp. 89-114.

"Cuban Filibustering in Jacksonville in 1851," Northeast Florida History Journal, Vol. 3, 1996, pp. 17-34.
 

Encyclopedias:

"Elian Gonzalez case (1999)." In Encyclopedia of American Immigration, edited by Carl L. Bankston III. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010, pp. 427-429.

Mexican War.” In vol. 7 of Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877, edited by Tom Lansford and Thomas E. Woods Jr. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2008, pp. 691-696.

Mariel Boatlift.” In The Eighties in America, edited by Milton Berman. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2008, pp. 618-620.

"Zapotecs Build Monte Alban. " In vol. 1 of Great Events from History: The Ancient World Prehistory -- 476 c.e, edited by Mark W. Chavalas. Pasadena, Ca.: Salem Press, 2004, pp. 422-424.

"Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 17-19, 1961)." In Encyclopedia of North American History, edited by John C. Super. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1999, p. 122.

"Cuban Refugee Program (1961-1981)." In vol. 2 of The Latino Encyclopedia, edited by Richard Chabran and Rafael Chabran. Pasadena, Ca: Salem Press, 1996, pp. 424-426.
 

Book reviews:

Review of Scott W. Carmichael's True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba's Master Spy (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2007), History: Reviews of New Books, Spring 2007, vol. 335, no. 3, 106.

Review of Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Jorge Pérez-López's, Cuba’s Aborted Reform: Socioeconomic Effects, International Comparisons, and Transition Policies (Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2005), Hispanic American Historical Review, February 2007, vol. 87, no. 1, 191-92.

Review of Peter Pavia’s The Cuba Project: Castro, Kennedy, and the FBI’s Tamale Squad (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), History: Reviews of New Books, Summer 2006, vol. 34, no. 4, 135.

Review of Anthony DePalma’s The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times (New York: Public Affairs Press, 2006), Cuban Affairs, July 2006, Vol. 1, No. 3.

Review of John Lawrence Tone's War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005), The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Spring 2006, Vol. 104, No. 2, 336-38.

Review of Amy S. Greenberg's, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Autumn 2005, Vol. 103, No. 4, 789-90.

Review of Rodrigo Lazo's Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005) H-Net, (October 2005).

Review of Julia E. Sweig's Inside the Cuban Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), The Florida Historical Quarterly (Winter 2004, Vol. 82, No. 3, 406-08).

Review of Robert E. May's Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002), and Joseph A. Stout, Jr's Schemers & Dreamers: Filibustering in Mexico 1848-1921.  (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2002), in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Spring 2003, 221-25.

Review of David Healy's James G. Blaine and Latin America (Columbia:University of Missouri Press, 2001), The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Winter 2002, 86-88.

Review of Louis A. Perez, Jr.'s The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), The Florida Historical Quarterly, Fall 1999, pp. 253-255.

Review of Tom Chaffin's Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U.S. War Against Cuba (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1996), The Florida Historical Quarterly, Summer 1997, pp. 88-90.
 

Newspaper Interviews:

Talk to offer look at past of territory The Topeka Capital-Journal, February 28, 1998

IU professor launches leading Web site for Latino studies  Indiana Daily Student, December 2, 2004

Professor discusses history, status of Cuba Indiana Daily Student, April 2, 2008