Historian Ada Ferrer will speak on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Cuba: An American History, at Boston College on March 13 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. Spanning more than 500 years, Ferrer’s book chronicles Cuban history and its complex ties to the United States. She explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the influence of the U.S. on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in U.S. affairs. Ferrer is also the author of Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898, which won the Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book by a woman in any field of history, and Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution, which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University as well as multiple prizes from the American Historical Association. Ferrer is the Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Ferrer’s talk is presented by the Lowell Humanities Series and is co-sponsored by the History Department, Romance Languages and Literatures Department, the Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series, and the McMullen Museum of Art. Advance registration is requested here for this free lecture.