Professional Speaking

Latino Legacies: Cultural and Financial
Hispanic/Latino Communications Styles
Beyond Salsa Dancing, Sombreros, and Empanadas: Latin America's Rich Culture
Translating Hispanic/Latino Cultures
How to Best Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
Who Is Missing at the Table? Creating an Institutional Culture of Diversity and Inclusiveness
Don Quixote in the Boardroom: Hispanic/Latino Culture, a Toolbox for Business Success
Latinos in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty First Century
The Art and Diplomacy of Haggling: Lessons in Cross-Cultural Communications
Our "Weaknesses" Are Our Strengths: A Closer Look at Hispanic/Latino Culture
Demographic Transformations and Latino Politics in the United States
Reaching Hispanic/Latino Consumers, Job Candidates, Donors, and Voters
Toward a Global Culture? Not Quite Yet
Ten Defining Characteristics of Hispanic Culture
Diversifying the Workplace: It Makes Business Sense and Is the Right Thing to Do
A Latino in the US Academy: Wounds and Medals from the Battlefield
Orlando, Florida, the Puerto Rican Frontier

My Road to National Syndication
How I Reinvented Myself Into a Weekly Syndicated Columnist at age 60
I Never Left the Classroom; and You Shouldn't Either
They Are Counting on Your Ignorance. Read! Think! Disappoint Them!
The Thin Line between What We Call Success and Failure
Many People Wish they Could Sit at Your Desk. Be Grateful and Make the Best of that Opportunity
A Toolbox for Student Success

The Art and Craft of Column Writing
I never Left the Classroom: Reflections on Education, Reading and Writing
Incapable of Genius: Limitations, Challenges, and Dangers of ChatGPT
Protecting Free Speech, Freedom of the Press and Academic Freedom
Reading Across the Curriculum
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Modern University
Twelve Keys to Successful Teaching / Learning
We Are in It Together: Dialogue and Collaboration between Historians and History Teachers
"C" Students, Children with ADHD, and the Class Clown: Why We Need them in Every Classroom
Let's Start from Scratch: A Blueprint for a Twenty-First-Century Model School of Education
We Need Poets More than Ever: The Critical Importance of the Arts and Humanities from Pre-K to College
What If...?: Out-of-the-box Reflections on How to Improve Our Education System
"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand": Visual and Participatory Methods for Teaching and Learning
Integrating Latin American and Caribbean History into the Curriculum
Windows to the Past: Using Texts, Artifacts, and Captured Moments in the Classroom
Why Did I Become a Historian?

Cast in Bronze and Chiseled out of Stone: The Story of the Caribbean as Told by Its Statues
Cuba's History in Twenty-Five Artifacts
Key to the New World: Early Colonial Cuba
Three Crops that Transformed the Caribbean: Sugar, Tobacco, and Coffee
Divergent Patterns of Political Culture in the Twentieth-Century Hispanic Caribbean
In the Plantation's Own Image: Puerto Rico's First Protestant Congregations,1868-1898
Ten Historiographical Keys to the Caribbean
The American Mediterranean during the American Century
Puerto Rico in the Whirlwind of 1898: Conflict, Continuity, and Change\
Life in a Male City: Women in Nineteenth-Century Havana
Caudillos, Annexationism, and the Rivalry between Empires in the Dominican Republic, 1844-1878
The Formation of Creole Cuba, 1525-1607
Geography, Will It Absolve Cuba?
Far Worse than Slaves: Emancipados in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
History Meets Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean
A History of the Caribbean in Fifteen Pictures
Beyond La Niña, La Pinta, and La Santa María: The Mental Mapping and Invention of a New World

Cast in Bronze and Chiseled out of Stone: The Story of the Caribbean as Told by Its Statues
Cuba's History in Twenty-Five Artifacts
Key to the New World: Early Colonial Cuba
Three Crops that Transformed the Caribbean: Sugar, Tobacco, and Coffee
Divergent Patterns of Political Culture in the Twentieth-Century Hispanic Caribbean
In the Plantation's Own Image: Puerto Rico's First Protestant Congregations,1868-1898
Ten Historiographical Keys to the Caribbean
The American Mediterranean during the American Century
Puerto Rico in the Whirlwind of 1898: Conflict, Continuity, and Change
Life in a Male City: Women in Nineteenth-Century Havana
Caudillos, Annexationism, and the Rivalry between Empires in the Dominican Republic, 1844-1878
The Formation of Creole Cuba, 1525-1607
Geography, Will It Absolve Cuba?
Far Worse than Slaves: Emancipados in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
History Meets Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean
A History of the Caribbean in Fifteen Pictures
Beyond La Niña, La Pinta, and La Santa María: The Mental Mapping and Invention of a New World

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