Herminio Portell Vilá (1901-1992) was a Cuban writer and scholar.

Biography

Herminio Portell Vilá was born in Cárdenas, Cuba, in 1901 and died in Miami, Florida, in 1992. He earned a law degree at the University of Havana in 1927 and a degree in philosophy in 1934. He was a Guggenheim fellow from 1931–1933. He was professor of history and military history in Cuba, and during the 1930s he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; University of Florida; and at Black Mountain College. He also gave lectures at the University of Chicago, George Washington University, the National War College, the Inter-American Defense College, the U.S. Army War College, and the Foreign Service Institute in Washington D.C. Portell Vilá also served as the Latin American Radio Editor for the American Security Council (1967–1982) and writer/editor for The Voice of America and Radio Free Americas, which broadcasts information services to Latin America. As a writer, he wrote more than twenty books about Cuban history and published articles for several magazines such as Bohemia Libre. Even into his late eighties, Portell Vilá was participating in two daily radio programs on international affairs, publishing articles, and giving lectures around the country. ^[1]

Works or publications

• Bolívar y el panamericanismo. 1939. OCLC  6928676.
• Céspedes, el padre de la patria cubana. 1931. OCLC  345418.
• Clara Barton, Protector of the Cuban "Reconcentrados". 1954. OCLC  23683357.
• Cuba y la conferencia de Motevideo. 1934. OCLC  6558232.
• El "new deal" norteamericano. 1940. OCLC  7705083.
• El comandante Cazimajou, glorioso inválido del ejército libertador. 1950. OCLC  654993.
• Historia de Cuba en sus relaciones con los Estados Unidos y España. 1969. OCLC  4613467.
• Historia de la guerra de Cuba y los Estados Unidos contra España. 1949. OCLC  1898047.
• Informe documentado del primer quinquenio como profesor universitario (1939-1944). 1947. OCLC  4721099.
• Jorge Wáshington, Simón Bolívar; discursos de los dres. W.E. Klawans, Herminio Portell Vilá y Manuel Bisbé, pronunciados en las sesiones homenajes de los natalicios de los libertadores de América, celebrados respectivamente en 22 de febrero y 25 de julio de 1940, en la ciudad de la Habana, por la Socidad colombista panamericana. 1941. OCLC  5207575.
• La biblioteca y el libro cubanos como factor sociológico. 1934. OCLC  1872859.
• Los "otros extranjeros" en la Revolución Norteamericana. 1978. OCLC  5195619.
• Síntesis histórica de la vivienda popular. 2008. OCLC  435551715.
• Los periodistas norteamericanos y la independencia de Cuba. 1952. OCLC  1848797.
• Martí, diplomático. 1934. OCLC  9069801.
• Medio siglo de "El Mundo"; historia de un gran periódico. 1951. OCLC  1458334.
• Narciso López y su época. 1930–1958. OCLC  1900199.
• Nueva historia de la República de Cuba : (1898-1979). 1986. OCLC  18351103.
• Problemas de la nueva Cuba;. 1935. OCLC  3550452.
• The Non-intervention Pact of Montevideo and American Intervention in Cuba. 1935. OCLC  19082694.
• Vidas de la unidad americana, veinte y cinco biografías de americanos ilustres,. 1944. OCLC  3511210.

Notes and references

Further reading

• Barro y Segura, Antonio (1943). The Truth About Sugar in Cuba; Corrections to and Explanations of the Pamphlet Entitled: "The Sugar Industry and Its Future". OCLC  1836293.

External links

• The Herminio Portell Vilá papers are available at the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries. The Herminio Portell Vilá papers include research writings, bibliographic notes, and clippings about events in Cuba and Latin America during his exile time in the United States (1960-1992).

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