During the Ten Years War many Cubans emigrated to New York City, where they initiated the publication of Spanish-language periodicals as a forum to conceptualize and pursue the nation. The periodical writings of Cuban exiles elicited dialog with interlocutors of diverse political and national affiliations: Cubans on the island, Cuban exiles of other locales, New York City's non-Cuban exiles, and U.S. citizens. It is through this transnational exchange that agents of the Cuban national project conceptualized collectives and fostered solidarities to consolidate the nation. While the process of consolidation is both common and problematic to nation formation, the myriad realms of transnationalism engendered by the condition of exile and the public spares of periodical publication make the Cuban national project particularly complex. This study examines the Cuban national project as it developed in New York City's Spanish-language periodicals to analyze how the process of nation formation was not only informed by transnationalism, but also yielded articulations beyond the nation to include both a Hispanic New York and a Latin Western Hemisphere.