The people who greeted Columbus / Irving Rouse
Religion of the Taíno people / Ramón Pané
First descriptions of the land, first violence against its people / Christopher Columbus
Death of the Spanish at Navidad / Diego Alvarez Chanca
The first Christian converts and martyrs in the new world / Ramón Pané
Founding Santo Domingo / Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas
The Indian monarchs / Luís Joseph Peguero
Criminals as kings / Bartolomé de Las Casas
A voice in the wilderness: brother Antonio Montesino / Bartolomé de Las Casas
The Royal response / Ferdinand I
Pirates, governors, and slaves
Las Casas blamed for the African slave trade / Augustus Francis MacNutt
The slave problem in Santo Domingo / Alvaro de Castro
Lemba and the Maroons of Hispaniola / Alonso López de Cerrato
Francis Drake's sacking of Santo Domingo / Walter Bigges
Colonial delinquency / Carlos Esteban Deive
The bulls / Flérida de Nolasco
The buccaneers of Hispaniola / Alexander O. Exquemelin
Business deals with the buccaneers / Jean-Baptiste Labat
The idea of value on Hispaniola / Antonio Sánchez Valverde
The monteros and the guerreros / Manuel Vicente Hernández González
The border Maroons of Le Maniel / Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry
The people-eater / Raymundo González
The Boca Nigua revolt / David Patrick Geggus
Hayti and San Domingo / James Franklin
Toussaint's conquest / Jonathan Brown
After the war, tertulias / William Walton Jr.
Stupid Spain / Carlos Urrutia de Montoya
The Dominican bolívar / José Nuñez de Cáceres
Profane bell bottoms / César Nicolás Penson
Dominicans unite! / La Trinitaria
Pedro Santana / Miguel Ángel Monclús
The caudillo of the South / Buenaventura Báez
In the army camp at Bermejo / Pedro Francisco Bonó
The war of the restoration / Carlos Vargas
Spanish recolonization: a postmortem, US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo
Making the case for US annexation / Ulysses S. Grant
Dominican support for annexation, US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo
Opposition to US annexation / Justin S. Morrill
Dominican nationalism versus annexation / Gregorio Luperón
A lesson in "quiet good-breeding" / Samuel Hazard
Martí's travel notes / José Martí
Ulises "Lilís" Heureaux / Américo Lugo
Your friend, Ulises / Ulises Heureaux
The idea of the nation: order and progress
Street people and godparents / Luis Emilio Gómez Alfau
From Paris to Santo Domingo / Francisco Moscoso Puello
Public enemies: the revolutionary and the pig / Emiliano Tejera
The "master of décimas" / Juan Antonio Alix
Barriers to progress: revolutions, diseases, holidays, and cockfights / Pedro Francisco Bonó
Food, race, and nation / Lauren Derby
Tobacco to the rescue / Pedro Francisco Bonó
Patrons, peasants, and tobacco / Michiel Baud
Salomé, Salomé / Ureña de Henríquez
The case for commerce, 1907, Dominican Department of Promotion and public works
Dollars, gunboats, and bullets
Uneasiness about the US Government / Emiliano Tejera.
AIn the midst of revolution, US receivership of Dominican customs
Gavilleros, listín diario
A resignation and a machine gun / Frederic Wise and Meigs O. Frost
The "water torture" and other abuses, US senate, hearings before a select committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo
The land of bullet holes / Harry Franck
American sugar kingdom / César J. Ayala
The universal negro improvement association in San Pedro de Macorís, officers and members of the association
The crime of Wilson / Fabio Fiallo
The Haitian massacre / Eyewitnesses
Message to Dominican women / Darío Contreras
The sugar strike of 1946 / Roberto Cassá
Informal resistance on a Dominican sugar plantation / Catherine C. LeGrand
Biography of a great leader / Abelardo Nanita
A diplomat's diagnosis of the dictator / Richard A. Johnson
A British view of the dictatorship / W. W. McVittie
Exile invasions, anonymous / Armed Forces Magazine
I am Minerva! / Mu-Kien Adriana Sang
The long transition to democracy
"Basta ya!": a peasant woman speaks out / Aurora Rosado
Without begging god / Joaquín Balaguer
The rise and demise of democracy, CIA reports, 1961-1963
"Ni mató, ni robó" / Juan Bosch
Fashion police / Elías Wessin y Wessin
The revolution of the Magi / José Francisco Peña Gómez
United States intervention in the revolution of 1965 / William Bennett
The president of the United States chooses the next president of the Dominican Republic / Lyndon Johnson
Operation power pack / Lawrence A. Yates
The twelve years / CIA Special Report
Why not, Dr. Balaguer? / Orlando Martínez
Dominican, cut the cane! / State Sugar Council
The blind caudillo / Anonymous
The "eat alones" of the liberation party / Andres L. Mateo
The election of 2000 / Central Election Commission
The sour taste of US-Dominican sugar policy / Matt Peterson
Leonel, Fidel, and Barack, Leonel Fernández, Fidel Castro, and Barack Obama
Mercedes / Flérida de Nolasco
The Catholic bishops say no to the dictator, the five bishops of the Dominican Republic
Liberation theology / Octavio A. Beras
To die in Villa Mella / Carlos Hernández Soto
A tire blowout gives entry into the world of spiritism / Martha Ellen Davis
Díos Olivorio Mateo: the living god, interview with Irio Leonel Ramírez López
Jesus is calling you / Frances Jane "Fanny" Crosby
Carnival and holy week / Luis Emilio Gómez Alfau
Tribulations of Dominican racial identity / Silvio Torres-Saillant
Origins of merengue and musical instruments of the republic / J. M. Coopersmith
Dominican music on the world stage: Eduardo Brito / Arístides Incháustegui
The people call all of it merengue / Johnny Ventura
A bachata party / Julio Arzeno
The tiger / Rafael Damirón
La montería: the hunt for wild pigs and goats / Martha Ellen Davis
Everyday life in a poor barrio / Tahira Vargas
The name is the same as the person / José Labourt
Juan Luis Guerra: I hope it rains . . . / Eric Paul Roorda
The first immigrant to Manhattan, 1613: Jan Rodrigues / Crew Members of the Jonge Tobias and Fortuyn
Player to be named later: Osvaldo/Ossie/Ozzie Virgil / First Dominican Major-Leaguer / Enrique Rojas
The Dominican dandy: Juan Marichal / Rob Ruck
The queen of merengue / Milly Quezada
Dominican hip-hop in Spain / Arianna Puello
Black women are confusing, but the hair lets you know / Ginetta Candelario
Los Domincanyorks / Luis Guarnizo
The Yola / Milagros Ricourt
The Dominican who won the Kentucky Derby / Joel Rosario
You know you're Dominican? / Anonymous.