Dominican Republic Resources

Books

History & Culture

The Dominican Republic: a national history / Frank Moya Pons.

Dominican Republic in focus: a guide to the people, politics, and culture / David Howard.

Culture and customs of the Dominican Republic / Isabel Zakrzewski Brown.

Quisqueya la bella: the Dominican Republic in historical and cultural perspective / Alan Cambeira.

Trujillo

Trujillo: the death of the dictator / Bernard Diederich.

Foundations of despotism: peasants, the Trujillo regime, and modernity in Dominican history / Richard Lee Turits.

The militarization of culture in the Dominican Republic, from the captains general to General Trujillo / Valentina Peguero.

The dictator next door: the good neighbor policy and the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945 / Eric Paul Roorda.

U.S. Intervention

The Dominican intervention / Abraham F. Lowenthal.

Rag-tags, scum, riff-raff, and commies: the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965-1966 / Eric Thomas Chester.

Databases

Facts On File History Database Center

History Resource Center: World

Biography Resource Center

Statistics

World Factbook

Civil War Research Guide

Books

General

The American Civil War / Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin, book editors.

The Civil War: opposing viewpoints / William Dudley, book editor.

The American Civil War: a hands-on history / Christopher J. Olsen.

The American Civil War / Adam I.P. Smith.

Blood brothers: a short history of the Civil War / Frank E. Vandiver.

Origins/Causes

The outbreak of the Civil War / Jean Alice Elster, book editor.

Days of defiance: Sumter, secession, and the coming of the Civil War / Maury Klein.

Cry havoc!: The crooked road to Civil War, 1861 / Nelson D. Lankford.

The Causes of the Civil War / edited by Kenneth M. Stampp.

On the brink of Civil War: the Compromise of 1850 and how it changed the course of American history / John C. Waugh.

Women in the Civil War

Women in the Civil War / by Mary Elizabeth Massey; introduction to the Bison Book edition by Jean V. Berlin.

They fought like demons: women soldiers in the American Civil War / DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook.

Women in the Civil War: extraordinary stories of soldiers, spies, nurses, doctors, crusaders, and others / Larry G. Eggleston.

All the daring of the soldier: women of the Civil War armies / Elizabeth D. Leonard.

Women of the war: their heroism and self-sacrifice : true stories of brave women in the Civil War / Frank Moore.

Medicine during the Civil War

Civil War medicine: challenges and triumphs / Alfred Jay Bollet.

Civil War medicine: care & comfort of the wounded / Robert E. Denney.

Gangrene and glory: medical care during the American Civil War / Frank R. Freemon.

Civil War medicine, 1861-1865 / by C. Keith Wilbur.

Databases

Academic Search Premier

Facts On File History Database Center

History Resource Center: U.S.

Puerto Rico Research Guide

Books

History & Culture

A general history of Puerto Rico: a panorama of its people / Fernando Pico.

The Puerto Ricans: a documentary history / edited by Kal Wagenheim and Olga Jimenez de Wagenheim.

Puerto Rico in the American century: a history since 1898 / Cesar J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe.

Puerto Rico, a political and cultural history / edited by Arturo Morales Carrion

Puerto Rico & the U.S.

The United States and Puerto Rico: the struggle for equality / by Ronald I. Perusse.

America’s colony: the political and cultural conflict between the United States and Puerto Rico / Pedro A. Malavet.

Puerto Ricans in the U.S.

A history of the Puerto Ricans in the United States of America / by Luis Antonio Cardona.

Puerto Ricans in the United States: a contemporary portrait / Edna Acosta-Belen, Carlos E. Santiago.

Puerto Ricans in New York

From Colonia to community: the history of Puerto Ricans in New York City / Virginia E. Sanchez Korrol.

Island in the city; the world of Spanish Harlem / Dan Wakefield.

Databases

Facts On File History Database Center

History Resource Center: World

Biography Resource Center

Statistics

World Factbook

John Adams

Renewed interest in John Adams exists in light of a new film showcasing the US President. This guide offers some recommended reading surrounding this important figure in American History.

Books:

John Adams by David McCullough, 2001. This book is the source material for the new film on Adams.

Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by John Ferling, 2004.

A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson, 2007.

Age of Federalism by Stanley M. Elkins and Eric McKitrick, 1993.

Passionate Sage by Joseph Ellis, 1993.

John Adams: A Life by John E. Ferling, 1992

The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams edited by Lester Jesse Cappon, originally published 1959.

Journal articles from Academic Search Premier :

“John Adams and the Pursuit of Happiness” by David McCullough, USA Today Magazine: July 2007 Vol. 136 Issue 2746.

“The Adams Family” by Steven Lee Carson, American History: Feb 2007 Vol. 41 Issue 6, p30-37.

Select Digital Resources:

Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive – Offered by the Massachusetts Historical Society, this site provides digital copies of John Adams’ diary and select correspondence.

“John Adams, Maligned and Misunderstood, Finds a 21st-Century Champion,” Dinitia Smith. The New York Times, June 28, 2001.

The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States by John Adams.

Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams by John and Abigail Adams.