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¡Si Podemos! Yes, we can!

November 29, 2023

Aguadilla Fellowship House, Christmas 1942. [Pearl ID: 141976]

The Presbyterian Church in Puerto Rico “Feels very much isolated from the rest of the Church,” said a Puerto Rican ecclesiastical leader during an organizational meeting regarding the unification commission. I recently completed a master's in public history

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Author:

JoyC

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Puerto Rican History, Puerto Rico, Mission History

Memories of the Rebellion, October 1950

January 6, 2022

On October 30, 1950, militant members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (PNPR) led a series of uprisings, targeting insular police barracks. In Jayuya, Nationalists held the town for three days, succumbing only after United States military aircraft bombed the town. Cadets of the Republic, a youth faction of the PNPR accustomed to training...

Author:

David S

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Puerto Rico

Celebrating Reverend Blanca Estrella Otaño-Rivera

September 8, 2021

-- by Reverend Blanca Estrella Otaño-Rivera--also known as Blanqui Otaño

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we are celebrating Reverend Blanca Estrella Otaño-Rivera--also known as Blanqui Otaño--the first Hispanic clergywoman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA), in June 1975.

The Reverend Otaño-Rivera was born in Lares on the island of Puerto Rico. She earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of...

Author:

Sonia

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Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican History, Womens History

PHS in Puerto Rico

September 18, 2018

--by David Staniunas, Records Archivist

It was back in May that Fred Tangeman and I visited Puerto Rico as part of PHS's first collecting and outreach trip to the island, but I still remember the sights and warm conversations distinctly. As we landed in San Juan blue tarps spotted the surrounding hills eight months after the catastrophic landfall of Hurricane Maria--which we now know killed 2,...

Author:

David S

Tags:

Puerto Rico, Collections, Latin America

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