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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“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.”
—Will Durant (1885–1981)
“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)
“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)