HST 390 - Puerto Rico - MacPherson: Home

Welcome to research on Puerto Rico! The library has many resources for you to use. This guide is intended to direct you to the most relevant to your work. Depending on where your research takes you, there may be additional resources not listed here, or you may have questions about how to use the sites given here. Please feel free to contact me in person, in my office, at the reference desk, email etc. - my contact information, as well as that for the reference desk, is under the "More help" tab.

Primary sources are original accounts from the time in question. For articles, think NY Times Historical, article databases like Readers Guide, Academic Search etc. For books, use our catalog and WorldCat to look for books and government documents. One way to browse would be by searches like travel description puerto rico, or personal narratives puerto rico, or use caribbean instead.