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Historical thinking has become a central objective of social studies education, yet many classrooms continue to emphasize factual recall over historical inquiry. This article examines instructional practices implemented in a ninth-grade U.S. History classroom in Prince George's County Public Schools that were designed to promote historical thinking through annotation, document analysis, evidence-based writing, and formative assessment. Student artifacts, including annotated readings, document-based questions (DBQs), short-answer assessments, written reflections, and student correspondence, provide evidence that students developed skills associated with historical inquiry, including sourcing, contextualization, cause-and-effect reasoning, and evidence-based argumentation. The findings suggest that combining disciplinary literacy strategies with inquiry-based instruction can strengthen student engagement and historical understanding.
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On June 19, Americans commemorate Juneteenth, one of the most significant dates in the history of freedom and citizenship in the United States. The holiday marks the day in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that enslaved African Americans were free. Although President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, thousands of enslaved people in Texas remained in bondage until federal authorities enforced emancipation after the conclusion of the Civil War.
For many Americans, Juneteenth has become a celebration of liberation and resilience. Yet for historians, it also serves as a reminder that legal declarations alone do not guarantee freedom. Rights must be enforced, protected, and remembered. Freedom is not simply granted; it is secured through struggle, law, political action, and historical memory.
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This article examines the constitutional and historical evolution of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States from the Declaration of Independence (1776) to the contemporary status debates of the twenty-first century. Rather than advocating a particular political status, it approaches Puerto Rico's constitutional development as a historical problem requiring documentary analysis grounded in primary sources, constitutional law, and historiographical scholarship. The study traces the transformation of the United States from an anti-colonial republic to an overseas power following the Spanish-American War of 1898, analyzing the Treaty of Paris, the emergence of the doctrine of the unincorporated territory through the Insular Cases, the establishment of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico under Public Law 81–600 and the Constitution of 1952, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 748 (VIII), and the succession of status plebiscites conducted between 1967 and 2024. Drawing upon congressional legislation, Supreme Court decisions, official electoral certifications, constitutional documents, and leading historical scholarship, the article argues that Puerto Rico's constitutional status should be understood as the product of an evolving historical process rather than as a settled constitutional question. By integrating documentary evidence with historiographical interpretation, this study seeks to provide researchers, educators, students, and general readers with a balanced and accessible examination of one of the most enduring constitutional issues in American history.
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La microhistoria ha transformado profundamente la investigación histórica al demostrar que el estudio intensivo de individuos, comunidades y acontecimientos específicos permite comprender procesos sociales, políticos y culturales de mayor alcance. Entre sus principales exponentes, Carlo Ginzburg renovó la metodología histórica mediante el paradigma indiciario, al proponer una lectura crítica de evidencias fragmentarias y la recuperación de actores históricamente marginados. A partir de esta tradición historiográfica, el presente ensayo examina la relación metodológica entre la obra de Ginzburg y dos investigaciones sobre la vigilancia política en Puerto Rico durante la Guerra Fría: La sombra del comunismo y Juan Sáez Corales: La Voz Prohibida. Se sostiene que el paradigma indiciario puede extenderse metodológicamente al análisis historiográfico de los archivos de inteligencia producidos en contextos coloniales.
El artículo propone un marco metodológico para el análisis historiográfico de archivos de inteligencia y demuestra que la microhistoria mantiene plena vigencia para el estudio de la vigilancia política, el colonialismo, la memoria histórica y las relaciones entre poder y sociedad en el Puerto Rico del siglo XX. Más ampliamente, se argumenta que esta extensión metodológica del paradigma indiciario amplía el horizonte interpretativo de la microhistoria y ofrece una contribución a la investigación comparada de los sistemas de vigilancia en sociedades coloniales y poscoloniales.
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¿Cómo surgió el imperialismo moderno y qué papel desempeñó en la transformación del mundo contemporáneo? Este ensayo explora la evolución del capitalismo desde sus primeras etapas hasta la consolidación del imperialismo como sistema global. A través del análisis de pensadores como Marx, Lenin, Schumpeter, Hobsbawm y David Harvey, se examinan las fuerzas económicas, políticas y sociales que impulsaron la expansión de las grandes potencias y redefinieron las relaciones internacionales. Una lectura esencial para comprender los orígenes históricos de muchos de los conflictos y dinámicas de poder que aún influyen en el mundo actual.
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En el siguiente ensayo historiográfico se trabajó el proceso de descolonización de Puerto Rico en comparación con la descolonización de otras colonias en el Caribe y el Mundo luego de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los intentos de cooperación económica y las características o elementos cultuales que nos unen y distinguen como Caribeños. Durante el ensayo se integraran y se entrelazan diferentes ensayos, textos, artículos de periódicos y revistas según los subtemas en que se dividirá este ensayo historiográfico. En el tema se implemtó el uso del método comparativo sobre los argumentos del autor y su posición, los documentos y fuentes y las conclusiones de este. La bibliografía utilizada servió para sustentar los argumentos y comparaciones sobre la descolonización de las islas del Caribe con especial énfasis en Puerto Rico, los intentos de cooperación económica y la sociedad civil del Caribe.
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La narrativa indianista en la obra Los Dos Indios de Ramón Emeterio Betances Alacán
¿Fue Los Dos Indios una respuesta literaria a La palma del cacique de Alejandro Tapia y Rivera? Este ensayo explora cómo Ramón Emeterio Betances transformó la figura del indígena puertorriqueño en un símbolo de resistencia, patriotismo y libertad. A través de un análisis histórico y literario, descubrirás la relación entre literatura, identidad nacional y pensamiento anticolonial en una de las obras menos estudiadas del Padre de la Patria Puertorriqueña.
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