De aquellos polvos--

El libro reúne una cuidadosa selección de documentos, ordenanzas, cartas y todo tipo de relaciones administrativas que nos ilustran no solamente de las dotes organizativas del conquistador, sino del sutil y agudo sentido de la estrategia política que Hernán Cortés puso al servicio de la consolidación del poder y el dominio españoles en los primeros años de la Colonia.

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,...

Springfield Township, Montgomery County, adjoins the city of Philadelphia on its northern border. The township's six-plus square miles, originally established as "Penn's Manor of Springfield," was a gift from William Penn to his wife, Gulielma Maria Springett, c. 1681. This historic township was home to a major stagecoach line and its associated taverns and inns, considerable activity during the Revolutionary War, summertime residences of Philadelphia's wealthy, and subsequent post-World War II development as a burgeoning community just over the Philadelphia border. Springfield Township's...

Entre las cosas que la historia de la anarquía en Sudamérica ha dejado hay una que ha quedado sucia de alquitrán y sangre. Es la historia de Marino Cortucci, brazo armado del grupo de Severino Di Giovanni. Oslvando Bayer, por incompetencia o ignorancia, ha ensuciado el honor de este hombre que ha debido soportar además de las torturas salvajes de la policía, la acusa de haber sido el infame que ha colaborado con la policía para el arresto de Di Giovanni y Scarfò. Viendo los documentos históricos era simple llegar a la misma conclusión a la que llegaron los miembros del grupo que...