Elections in Puerto Rico by Manuel lvarez-Rivera Welcome to the Elections in Puerto Rico Web site. The final results of all general elections held in the Island from 1920 to the present, of the 1967, 1993, and 1998 Status Plebiscites, of the 1951, 1952, 1991 and 1994 referendums, and of the 1951 special election, as well as other reference materials relative to the Puerto Rican electoral process ...

Timeline spans the last 500 years of the islands history. Includes photos and links to related sites.

CLICK THIS HERE! This one you gotta see! Puerto Rico's Culture in cyber-review... What makes a Puerto Rican, is presented tastefully, Puerto Rican folklore, recipes, commentaries, quips, sayings, boards and more.

The Centro is a research center dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. We are committed to making this research available and useful to those in community organizations, public policy, and academia. The Centro is also the world's only repository of archival and library materials dedicated exclusively to the Puerto Rican diaspora. Search the ...

The Library of Congress From Several Divisions of the Library of Congress. Search by Keyword | Browse by Subject Index | Author Index | Title List Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives portrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the Library of ...

PUERTO RICO HISTORY Ruins of a building in Old San Juan/ Sugar mill ruins east of Santa Isabel 'Isla Borinquena' ...1493 to the Present written by Elena Harley The island 'Borinquen' was populated by the Taino Indians until the early 1500's. Carib Indians raided the more peaceful Taino and established a few settlements. Columbus discovered the island on his second voyage in 1493 and named it San ...

Knowing Our Roots ...

The Puerto Rican Soldier, a documentary on the all-Puerto Rican 65th Infantry Regiment and its significant participation in the Korean War.

Juan Ponce de Leon Juan Ponce de Leon conquered the island of Puerto Rico, discovered Florida, explored its coast and made a failed attempt to start a settlement there. Juan Ponce de Le n was born somewhere around 1460 in San Tervas de Campos, Le n, from impoverished nobility. He first visited the New World on Columbus's second voyage in 1493, and settled there in 1502. After a governorship of ...

DICTIONARY -- TAINO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE CARIBBEAN This dictionary of words of the indigenous peoples of caribbean is from the encyclopedia Clasicos de Puerto Rico, second edition, publisher, Ediciones Latinoamericanas. S.A., 1972 It was compiled by Puerto Rican historian Dr. Cayetano Coll y Toste of the Real Academia de la Historia. He describes as vocabulario indo-antillano. It may ...

Civil Rights Journal Premiere Edition published by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Arthur 'Afroborinque o' Schomburg by Robert Knight (c) 1995 It was barely a century ago that a young man arrived in New York on a mission that would bridge two cultures, span several centuries, and provide a lasting structure for understanding and respect among African-, Latino- and European-Americans. He ...

The Negro Digs Up His Past By ARTHUR A. SCHOMBURG Click on an icon to view a full-size image. THE American Ncgro must remake his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country where it is unnecessary to have a past, what is a luxury for the nation as a whole becomes a prime social necessity for the Negro. For him, a group tradition must supply ...

Cerro Maravilla Archive SENATORS ASKED TO STUDY PUERTO RICO KILLING INQUIRY The New York Times, August 11, 1980. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REOPENING INQUIRY ON PUERTO RICO SHOOTING DEATHS The New York Times, September 19, 1980. Federal Jury Examines Puerto Rican Slayings - Puerto Rico's Probe The New York Times, October 13, 1983 and The Washington Post, November 28, 1983. PUERTO RICANS WERE KNEELING ...

Curiosities: 500 years after its discovery it is still uncertain as of what coast did Columbus arrive through. Although the Aguada Coast has been pointed as the official, there are six other coasts that claim the honors. These are: A asco, Rincon, Mayaguez, Boquer n, Combate and Guayanilla. Every military attack against Puerto Rico has taken place punctually in the decade of the '90s on nearly ...

DR. PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos, was in born on September 1891 (others say 1893), in Ponce, Puerto Rico, son of Alejandro Albizu and Juana Campos. He studied chemistry at Ohio University, law in Vermont and Harvard Law Schools, and served the US Army during World War I (1914-1918). Albizu Campos was the most prominent of all Puerto Rican leaders who struggled for the independence ...

Hist. 378: Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans: Colony, Nation, Diaspora Historical Photographs of Puerto Rico, 1898-1940s* Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1898-1906 Cocoanut palms Military road, San Juan, Puerto Rico Governors Palace Bullock Team on San Juan Military Road, Southwestern Old San Juan Central Military Road Central Military Road through the highlands Old San Juan ...