The BBC provides a timeline of key historical events for the Dominican Republic starting in 1492 when Columbus landed on the island to the present election of President Leonel Fernandez.

The BBC provides a timeline of key historical events for the Dominican Republic starting in 1492 when Columbus landed on the island to the present election of President Leonel Fernandez.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shares information about the topic of immigration. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

Article on Latin America that provides a great overview of the region. Discussions include history, religion, culture, links to information about each of the countries, and more.

You can find out about the government of Dominica and its unicameral Parliament system from the information from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.

This page tells of the early history of Panama. "Vasco Nunez de Balboa first settled in Hispanola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti). To escape his creditors there, Balboa stowed away on a voyage to Panama in 1510. There were, at...

A map from 1920 of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Island group, showing capitals, major cities, towns and ports, railroads, submarine telegraph routes, terrain, and coastal features. The foreign possessions in the region...

A map from 1920 of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Island group, showing capitals, major cities, towns and ports, railroads, submarine telegraph routes, terrain, and coastal features. The foreign possessions in the region...

5 basic Dominican Republic recipes listed at the bottom of the page with a brief explanation before. Basic and easy to use.

Maximo Gomez y Baez (November 18, 1836 in the Dominican Republic - June 17, 1905 in Havana, Cuba) was a Major General in the Ten Years' War (1868-1878) and Cuba's military commander in that country's War of Independence (1895-1898).

This site provides a book summary, lesson plan ideas, book connections and resource links for teaching How Tia Lola Came to Stay by Julia Alvarez.

Good website from Emory University containing a biography of Julia Alvarez, a list of awards and honors she has won, some of her works, and a list of works about her. Related links and a bibliography also provided.

A map from 1901 of Cuba, Jamaica, and an inset of Hispaniola (Haiti and Santo Domingo or Dominican Republic), showing provinces and province capitals, major cities, towns and ports, railroads, terrain and coastal features, and smaller...