"In 1966, a large ... 1950s. A map of French and Viet Minh areas of operations during the 1950s. Chinese railroad construction in the mid-1950s. Suspected sites of missiles in Cuba, 1962.

It's a brand new map of Cuba, the National Geographic Society's first comprehensive rendering of the Caribbean nation since 1906. It's a classic wall map, 3 feet by 2 feet, 24 miles to the inch.

IN 1853 WILLIAM KING was sworn in as vice-president of the United States on a sugar plantation in Matanzas, near Cuba’s northern coast. King, who had hoped that spending his afternoons amid the ...

Two hundred miles southwest of Havana in south central Cuba lies the Sierra Escambray, an area of precipitous hills pocked with large caves and dominated by two 3,000-ft. peaks. The Escambray is ...