¿Antídoto contra el antiamericanismo?

711-712: conquista islámica de Hispania.1212: batalla de Las Navas de Tolosa.1412: Compromiso de Caspe.1512: incorporación de Navarra a Castilla.Los centenarios de aquellos sucesos confluyen en 2012. Es cierto que las conmemoraciones de centenarios tienen mucho de coyuntural, pero también lo es que pueden ser ocasión para mostrar al público algunos aspectos de la historia que, de otra manera, no llamarían su atención.

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Las primeras personas que lograron elevarse a la vida civilizada fueron los olmecas. ¿Pero por qué siguen siendo relativamente desconocidos, y permanecen escondidos en los largos y oscuros pasadizos de la historia olvidada? Pero eso está por cambiar.

The history of Puerto Ricans in the so-called "Babel of Steel" dates back more than a century. Through hundreds of images of the "pioneers"-those Puerto Rican migrants who established themselves in New York City between the 1890s and the end of World War II-we capture a glimpse of their daily lives and of their individual and collective stories. This rich collection of images from the Archives of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College helps to examine the history of the Puerto Rican community at a time when it was spreading its roots in New York City's social, political,...