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In recent years, the media has tended to portray US Latinos of Hispanic Caribbean ancestry as new immigrants, but this characterization...
Throughout American history, millions of people around the world have left their homelands for a...
Between 1877 and 1920, the United States’ relationship with the Caribbean region underwent a...
On February 9, 1859, Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, said something strange about Cornelius Vanderbilt. Raymond...
Just hours before John F. Kennedy was to deliver one of the most important speeches of the 1960 presidential campaign in...
Across the long arc of American history, three moments in particular have...
In the closing years of World War II, American military and diplomatic representatives in China recognized that civil...
In September 1609, when Henry Hudson guided his ship, De Halve Maen, through the narrows dividing present-day Staten and Long Islands, he...
In the middle of the fifteenth century, Europe, Africa, and the Americas came together, creating—among other things—a new economy. At the center of that economy was the plantation, an enterprise dedicated to the production...