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 GonzalesColumbiaUniversity of South Carolina Press, 2003.
 

Book chapters and academic journals:

"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.

"Cubans in Blue and Grey," in Susannah U. Bruce, Ethnicity in the American Civil War(Under final contract for publication 2009)

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

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

"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 RepublicSpring 1997, pp. 89-114.

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

Encyclopedias:

“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.

"Zapotecs Build Monte Alban. " In vol. 1 of Great Events from History: The Ancient World Prehistory -- 476 c.e, edited by Mark W. Chavalas. PasadenaCa.: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.

"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'sCuba’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 (CambridgeCambridgeUniversity 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: TheUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2005) H-Net, (October 2005).

Review of Julia E. Sweig's Inside the Cuban Revolution (CambridgeHarvardUniversity Press, 2002), TheFlorida 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 WorthTexasChristianUniversity 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 QuarterlyFall 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 QuarterlySummer 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