The Cuban Academy of History was created by presidential decree on August 20, 1910, and today marks the country’s 115th anniversary.
In its beginnings, it was independent, attached to the Secretariat of Public Instruction and Fine Arts. In June 1914, it was granted its own legal personality and full civil capacity for all legal purposes.
It was directed by an honorary president, a secretary, and a librarian, with Fernando Figueredo as its first president.
After several years of inactivity, the Cuban State resumed its sessions in 2011.
Its fundamental mission, now as the Cuban History Association, is to safeguard the nation’s historical legacy and to this end, cultivate, foster, promote, and disseminate its study, with the goal of proclaiming historical truth and reaffirming national identity.
This renewed institution has the responsibility to convene, gather, support, and, above all, establish itself as an instrument so that the cultural and educational policy motivated by history truly achieves a correct and wise interpretation.
It must also be based on the exercise of knowing how to search for origins while respecting the evolution of thought over time.
