Historians
- Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra
First historian to extensively document Puerto Rico's history, nationality and culture. - Dr. Delma S. Arrigoitia, historian, author
Arrigoitia was the first person in the University of Puerto Rico to earn a Masters Degree in the field of history. In 2010, her book, "Puerto Rico Por Encima de Todo: Vida y Obra de Antonio R. Barcelo, 1868–1938", was recognized among the best in the category of "research and criticism" and awarded a first place prize by the Ateneo Puertorriqueño. - Dr. Pilar Barbosa University of Puerto Rico Professor, author
First modern-day Official Historian of Puerto Rico. - Dr. Salvador Brau, historian
Second Official Historian of Puerto Rico. - Dr. Cayetano Coll y Toste, writer
Third Official Historian of Puerto Rico. - Adolfo de Hostos, historian
Fifth Official Historian of Puerto Rico. - Dr. Luis González Vale
Current Official Historian of Puerto Rico. - Dr. Francisco Lluch Mora
Best known for his legendary book "Orígenes y Fundación de Ponce y Otras Noticias Relativas a su Desarrollo Urbano, Demográfico y Cultural (Siglos XVI-XIX)". - Eduardo Neumann Gandía
Respected historian, best known for his 19th-century "History of Ponce." - Francisco Mariano Quiñones, historian
First Official Historian of Puerto Rico. - Antonio Mirabal
Historian, poet and writer. - Andres Ramos Mattei, historian
The "undisputed authority" on the subject of Puerto Rico's sugar industry.
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“All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn’t fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd; nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn’t fair.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)