Entries for May 2014
Comments on the book: OUR HISPANIC ROOTS: What History Failed To Tell Us, 2nd ed.
May 5, 2014 12:21 PM by Carlos Vega
For hundreds of years the great Hispanic contribution to the making of the United States has been systematically glossed over by history books and the nation at large. Yet, we can say based on undisputed historical fact, that without the Hispanic contribution it is quite probable that today’s United States would not exist. That contribution extended for a period of over 300 years, from the discovery of North America by the Spaniard Juan Ponce de León in 1513, up to and beyond the American Revolution. In fact, without the ...