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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,...

Don Diego de Torres y Villarroel, Gran Piscator de Salamanca, ha pasado a los anaqueles de la historia como un astrólogo enqueverizado y pícaro notorio. Así lo vieron, por ejemplo, Ramón Gómez de la Serna o el doctor Marañón, quien lo define como «un tahúr a quien su gracia sirvió de pabellón para las más innobles aventuras». Sin embargo, Torres Villarroel fue un hombre atormentado por la sombra de la Divinidad, y el mejor escritor de todo el XVIII español, dueño de una prosa dúctil y barroquizante, de gran plasticidad, y cuya primacía no han querido reconocer gentes como...