Lecture: To Die for the Fatherland!
Daniel Howell speaks on 19th-Century Cuban Nationalism and Havana’s Multiracial Working Class
6:00 pm –
7:30 pm
Location:
Nebraska Union
Room: Heritage Room
In 1865, the writer Luis Victoriano Betancourt published a prose poem titled “To Die for the Fatherland!” It appeared in the workers’ newspaper La Aurora and was likely read out loud in cigar factories. Three years later, Betancourt would …