The story

The story

The history as a literary genre has had great writers in our country, from the great founders of Dominican historiography like José Gabriel García, Manuel del Monte y Tejada and Bernardo Pichardo, to the representatives of two antagonistic ideological tendencies, as is the case of Roberto Cassá and Frank Moya Pons. Important historians since the Trujillo era, in addition to the aforementioned, are Emilio Cordero Michel, Jaime de Jesús Domínguez, Franklin Franco, Juan Daniel Balcácer and Bernardo Vega.

The subject of Trujillo awakens the most interest and curiosity, making Vega one of the most read authors for his documentary history. Those historians who have tackled the subjects of the Catholic Church and the Trujillo Era enjoy the same fame. The themes of Independence, U.S. interventions, and the pre-Columbian and colonial eras have all been diligently approached by our historians with differing focuses and methods of analysis.

The “Composición Social Dominicana” of Professor Juan Bosch is an obligatory reference as a sociological starting point for analyzing the social structure of the DR from a historical viewpoint, as is the “la Sociología Política Dominicana” of Jimenes Grullón.

>By Basilio Belliard