(CNN) -- An old map of Cuba is up for auction in Boston -- but it's much more than a map. It's a historic artifact from some of the darkest days of the Cold War, when Washington and Moscow reached ...

Cartographer and geographer Juan Jose Valdes fled Cuba for the United States when he was a young boy. Today, he's not just any geographer, but the geographer at National Geographic.

Key events in U.S.-Cuba relations: THE START: Fidel Castro’s rebels take power as dictator Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba on Jan 1, 1959. The United States soon recognizes the new government. But ...