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- Congratulations to Professor Dominique Reill, who has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the College of Arts & Sciences in recognition of her scholarly and creative activities.
- Kate Ramsey's The Spirits and the Law (Chicago, 2011) has been awarded the 2011-2012 Association of Caribbean Historians Elsa Goveia Prize; this book prize is awarded once every two years. The book also received the Berkshire Conference Book Prize and has been reviewed on The Huffington Post.
- Michael Bernath has been awarded the Georgia Historical Society's 2013 E. Merton Coulter Award for the best article published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly in 2012 for "'Independent in Everything—Neutral in Nothing': Joseph Addison Turner, The Countryman, and the Cultivation of Confederate Nationalism".
- Guido Ruggiero will be delivering a lecture on "Wayfarers in Wonderland: Love and Sex in Renaissance Venice Revisited" at the inaugural Vari Symposium at Santa Clara University on April 19, 2013.
- Michael Bernath has been awarded an NEH Summer Stipend for his project "In a Land of Strangers: Northern Teachers in the Old South and the Emergence of American Sectional Identity, 1790-1865."
- Michael Miller's Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth Century History has been awarded the 2013 Hagley Prize from the Business History Conference. The Hagley Prize is awarded to the best book in business history published in the previous two years (2011-2012).
- Congratulations to sophomore history major Ryden Butler and his partner Ali Jessani on winning the national championship at the 2013 tournament for Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, the national forensics and debate honorary.
- Michael T. Bernath has received a one-month Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship from the Huntington Library in San Marino, California for research on "In a Land of Strangers: Northern Teachers in the Old South and the Emergence of American Sectional Identity, 1790-1865."
- Dominique Reill presented a paper at the Eastern Europe/European History Workshop at New York University (on the invitation of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies) on "Post-Imperial Fiume: 1919 Reconsidered" in early March 2013. In addition she has been selected to participate in the Mellon Biennial Zuckerman Conference at Columbia University in April 2013.
- Silvia Mitchell (Ph.D. '13) has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Purdue University. Congratulations to Dr Mitchell and to her advisor, Guido Ruggiero.
- Richard Godbeer and Michael Miller have been named 2013-2014 Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellows.
- Kate Ramsey's The Spirits and the Law, winner of the 2011 Berkshire Book Prize, has been reviewed on The Huffington Post.
Kate Ramsey
Kate Ramsey, The Spirits and the Law (Chicago, 2011), winner of the 2011 Berkshire Book Prize and the 2011-2012 Association of Caribbean Historians Elsa Goveia Prize.
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Dominique Reill
Congratulations to Professor Dominique Reill, who has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the College of Arts & Sciences in recognition of her scholarly and creative activities.
View her Faculty Profile
Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe
Turkish edition: Cambridge, 2013
Mary Lindemann
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Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History
Cambridge University Press, 2012
Michael Miller
Winner of the 2013 Hagley Prize from the Business History Conference
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Don Spivey
Recipient of the Robert Peterson Recognition Award for bodies of work that increase public awareness on the Negro Leagues and in particular for his recent book "If You Were Only White" (University of Missouri Press, 2012).
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Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice
Honorable Mention, 2012 Smith Book Award, Southern Historical Association
Stanford University Press, 2012
Dominique Kirchner Reill
House of Slaves and "Door of No Return": Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles & Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Africa World Press, 2012
Edmund Abaka
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W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa
Left Coast Press, 2012
Edmund Abaka and Eugune F. Provenzo, Jr. (eds)
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"If You Were Only White": The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
University of Missouri Press, 2012
Donald Spivey
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2013-2014 CAS Dean's Academic Year Dissertation Award
Megan Hatfield has been awarded a 2013-2014 CAS Dean's Academic Year Dissertation Award
Ashli White
Ashli White has been awarded a 2013-2014 NEH Fellowship for her project on "Visual and Material Culture in the Atlantic World During the Age of Revolutions, 1765-1810."
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Richard Godbeer and Michael Miller
Richard Godbeer and Michael Miller have been named 2013-2014 Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellows.
Silvia Mitchell
Silvia Mitchell (Ph.D. '13) has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Purdue University. Congratulations to Dr Mitchell and to her advisor, Guido Ruggiero.
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Michael Bernath
Michael Bernath has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship from the Huntington Library and an NEH Summer Stipend for his project, "In a Land of Strangers: Northern Teachers in the Old South and the Emergence of American Sectional Identity, 1790-1865."
Welcome to the Department of History, University of Miami. Our Department is committed to pursuing excellence in historical and interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and service to the profession, the University, and the wider community. Our fine faculty of some twenty-four professors does research and teaches in historical areas, often crossing chronological, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Our courses combine innovative subjects and methods with more traditional subjects and presentations. In their classes, students have the opportunity to experience the latest and best historical research and writing, to explore special topics in depth, and to receive rigorous training in researching, analyzing, and writing history. Lectures, small classes, and seminars all allow students contact with full-time professors who are always experts, and often leaders and innovators, in their fields. The undergraduate program currently has about 150 majors and the graduate program generally enrolls five to six new students each year. In addition, a new initiative in Civic Engagement is coordinated and directed by Professor Robin Bachin (Assistant Provost for Civic and Community Engagement) for which the Office of Civic and Community Engagement has received a Teagle Foundation grant to integrate experiential learning more deeply into the liberal arts curriculum. Professor Bachin will be working closely with the Department of History to promote more community-based learning and internship opportunities for history majors.
The academic year 2011-2012 was something of a banner year for the Department. Four assistant professors -- Michael T. Bernath, Eduardo Elena, Kate Ramsey, and Ashli White -- were awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor.
Continue Reading...In addition, during 2011-2012, faculty members published a total of nine books (view the full list of faculty publications). Kate Ramsey’s The Spirits and the Law (University of Chicago Press) won the 2011 Berkshire Prize and Don Spivey received the Robert Peterson Recognition Award from the Jerry Malloy Negro Leagues Conference for his book on Satchel Paige, “If You Were Only White” (University of Missouri Press). Our faculty members have been just as successful in winning major grants and awards. Michael Bernath received a Filson Award from the Kentucky Historical Society; Richard Godbeer won a Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Dominique Reill received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the ACLS Committee on East European Studies and the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome for the academic year 2012-2013; Guido Ruggiero was Senior Scholar in Residence at both the Villa I Tatti (Florence) and the American Academy in Rome; and Ashli White received an NEH Summer Fellowship and a Winterthur Research Fellowship from the Winterthur Institute.
But the honors did not only accrue to faculty, our undergraduates and graduate students, too, have been very successful in garnering academic recognition. Erin Purdy ('14) received a 2012 Beyond the Book Research Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences. Awards and recognition for scholarly achievement have also come to many of our graduate students this year. Jacqueline Grant (Ph.D. 2012) won the David J., Ruggiero Prize for the best dissertation in the Humanities award by the Center for the Humanities (UM) and the 2012 Barret Dissertation Prize from the Center for Latin American Studies (UM). Carolyn Zimmerman received a Fulbright Fellowship for 2012-2013 for research in Italy on her dissertation “Defeat, Civic Values, and the Intronati of Siena after 1555.” The College of Arts and Sciences awarded Valerie Samet and Amelia Hintzen Summer Research Grants for dissertation research in France and the Dominican Republic respectively . Megan Hatfield will be a Dissertation Fellow at the Center for the Humanities (UM) during Fall semester 2012. The Department also graduated three Ph.D. during the 2011-2012 academic year and have taken in a very promising class of new graduate students for the upcoming year.
Congratulations to all!
Our graduate program provides first-rate professional training for graduate students. We enjoy excellent relationships with many other departments and programs in the college and university. We maintain close ties with, for example, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for the Humanities, and various other interdisciplinary programs, such as Women's and Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Africana Studies, American Studies, and more. In addition, we often work closely with Florida International University, also in Miami. Collaborative ventures with other university programs and with Florida International have included the staging of major conferences. The Department co-sponsored (with American Studies) a highly successful three-day conference/workshop on Atlantic Geographies in early May 2013 that attracted major senior scholars and early career scholars to the University campus.
Faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students benefit from our distinguished speakers' program which invites several scholars to campus each year to give lectures and direct seminars. Numerous opportunities exist for students to obtain fellowships within the university, including the University Fellowships, the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Writing Year Fellowship, the Dissertation Fellowships of the Center for the Humanities, and, for qualified minority students, McKnight Fellowships. Several of our graduate students have won external grants, including ones from the Fulbright Foundation, the Conference on Latin American History, the Council on Library and Information Resources/Mellon, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and more. Over the course of the last several years, our Ph.D. students have taken academic positions at, for example, Iowa State University, Michigan State University, Rowan State University, Connecticut College, Florida A & M, the University of Nevada, and Florida International University.
The University Library system, and in particular, Richter Library, holds a wealth of secondary materials, an impressive and extensive collection of electronic resources, and houses several Special Collections. One of the most important of these last is the Cuban Heritage Collection, containing a wide range of materials for studying both the history of Cuba and the Americas more broadly. But Special Collections also boasts a much greater range of scholarly resources, including rare books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, architectural drawings, posters, audio-visual materials; all in all over 10,500 linear feet of manuscripts and other archival materials, 100,000 photographs, and 5000 maps.
We invite you to browse our website to sample the richness of the opportunities that we can offer!
Bienvenido al departamento de historia de la Universidad de Miami. Tenemos un fuerte compromiso con la excelencia en los estudios históricos e interdisciplinarios, así como al servicio de la profesión, de la Universidad y de la comunidad en general. Nuestra facultad, de aproximadamente 24 profesionales, se dedica a la investigación y a la enseñanza en varios campos históricos, a menudo cruzando fronteras disciplinarias, cronológicas y geográficas. Nuestros cursos combinan intentos de abrir nuevas áreas de estudio con la aplicación de métodos innovadores que permitan repensar temas clásicos. A través de estas experiencias, nuestros estudiantes tienen la oportunidad de conocer la investigación profesional más reciente y de adquirir una formación rigurosa como historiadores. Conferencias, clases pequeñas y seminarios estimulan el intercambio intelectual entre los estudiantes y nuestros profesores, que incluyen líderes e innovadores en sus respectivas áreas. El programa de licenciatura tiene actualmente cerca de 150 miembros y el programa de posgrado generalmente acepta cinco o seis estudiantes por año.
Una nueva iniciativa sobre “Participación Cívica y Compromiso Comunitario”, coordinada y dirigida por Robin Bachin (Profesora de Historia y Asistente Secretaria de la Facultad), ha recibido una beca de la Fundación Teagle para reformar el programa de estudios de las humanidades y ciencias sociales. La Profesora Bachin está trabajando con el Departamento de Historia para fomentar lazos entre la Universidad y la comunidad de Miami, incluyendo la creación de oportunidades adicionales de pasantías para estudiantes de licenciatura.
El año académico 2011-2012 fue un periodo excepcional para el Departamento. Cuatro de nuestros asistentes profesores – Michael T. Bernath, Eduardo Elena, Kate Ramsey y Ashli White – lograron su acenso al cargo de “Associate Professor” con permanencia (“tenure”). Durante el año pasado, los miembros del Departamento publicaron nueve libros en total (vea la lista completa de publicaciones). El libro de Kate Ramsay The Spirits and the Law (University of Chicago Press) ganó el 2011 Berkshire Prize y Don Spivey obtuvo el Robert Peterson Recognition Award del Jerry Malloy Negro Leagues Conference por su libro sobre Satchel Paige, “If You Were Only White” (University of Missouri Press). Los miembros de nuestro cuerpo docente han sido igualmente exitosos en la obtención de premios y distinciones de suma importancia. Michael Bernath recibió un Filson Award de la Kentucky Historical Society; Richard Godbeer consiguió una beca de la Society for Historians of the Early American Republic del Library Company de Filadelfia y de la Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Dominique Reill ganó un Postdoctoral Fellowship de la ACLS Committee on East European Studies y el Rome Prize de la American Academy en Roma para el año académico 2012-2013; Guido Ruggiero obtuvo las becas de Senior Scholar en la Villa I Tatti (Florencia) y de la American Academy en Roma; y Ashli White recibió un NEH Summer Fellowship y un Winterthur Research Fellowship.
Pero los honores no sólo han recaído en el cuerpo de docentes, tanto nuestros estudiantes universitarios como los de postgrado también han sido muy exitosos en la obtención de reconocimiento académicos". Erin Purdy ('14) ganó un 2012 Beyond the Book Research Grant del College of Arts and Sciences. Muchos de nuestros estudiantes de postgrado también han sido merecedores de premios y reconocimiento este año por sus logros académicos. Jacqueline Grant (Ph.D. 2012) recibió el David J., Ruggiero Prize por la major tesis doctoral en las humanidades del Center for the Humanities (UM) y el 2012 Barret Dissertation Prize del Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos (UM). Carolyn Zimmerman consiguió un Fulbright Fellowship para viajar a Italia durante el año 2012-2013 para trabajar en su tesis “Defeat, Civic Values, and the Intronati of Siena after 1555.” El College of Arts and Sciences otorgó Summer Research Grants a Valerie Samet y Amelia Hintzen para proyectos de investigación en Francia y en la República Dominicana. Durante el semestre del Otoño 2012 Megan Hatfield será un Dissertation Fellow en el Center for the Humanities (UM). Tres de nuestros estudiantes de posgrado terminaron su tesis y recibieron su doctorado durante el año 2011-2012 y admitimos una nueva camada de cinco estudiantes que recién han comenzado sus estudios en el Departamento.
Nuestro programa de postgrado proporciona una excelente formación profesional. Disponemos de extensos contactos con otros departamentos y programas de la Universidad, como, por ejemplo, el Centro de Estudios de América Latina (CLAS), el Centro para las Humanidades y varios programas interdisciplinarios, como Estudios de la Mujer y del Género, Estudios Urbanos, Estudios Africanos, Estudios Americanos, etc. Además, estrechamos lazos de colaboración con nuestros colegas de la Universidad Internacional de Florida (FIU), también en Miami. El Departamento organizó con American Studies un congreso exitoso sobre Geografías Atlánticas en Mayo 2013 en el cual participaron profesores y estudiantes de posgrado invitados de otras universidades.
Los estudiantes de grado y posgrado se benefician de nuestro programa de charlas académicas, que invita a investigadores de otras universidades a ofrecer conferencias y seminarios cada semestre. Numerosas oportunidades existen para que estudiantes de posgrado obtengan apoyo financiero, incluyendo becas de la Universidad y de la Facultad de Artes y Ciencias, becas universitarias para completar la tesis doctoral, becas del Centro de Humanidades y, para estudiantes de grupos étnicos minoritarios, becas de la Fundación McKnight. Varios de nuestros estudiantes han ganado becas externas, incluyendo las de la Fundación Fulbright, la Conferencia sobre la Historia de América Latina, el Consejo de Biblioteca y Recursos de Información/Mellon, el Servicio Alemán de Intercambio Académico (DAAD), entre muchas otras más. En los últimos años, nuestros egresados a nivel de doctorado han conseguido cargos académicos en Iowa State University, Michigan State University, Rowan University, Connecticut College, Florida A & M, University of Nevada y Florida International University.
El sistema de bibliotecas de la Universidad de Miami (y, en particular, Richter Library) contiene una gran cantidad de libros, periódicos y otros materiales escritos, así como una amplia colección de recursos electrónicos a la disposición de nuestros estudiantes. Alberga varias colecciones especiales y archivos históricos, entre ellas la colección de patrimonio cubano (Cuban Heritage Collection) que reúne materiales sumamente valiosos para investigar la historia de la isla y de otros países de Latinoamérica. Existen varias otras colecciones sobre diversos temas, individuos e instituciones, que incluyen manuscritos, fotografías, mapas, planos arquitectónicos, afiches y material audiovisual; en total son más de 10.500 metros lineales de manuscritos y otros materiales de archivo, además de 100.000 fotografías y 5.000 mapas individuales.
Le invitamos a navegar en nuestra página web para conocer la riqueza de las oportunidades que podemos ofrecer.
Bem-vindos ao Departamento de História da Universidade de Miami. Nosso Departamento está comprometido com a busca por excelência em estudos históricos e interdisciplinares, em ensino e em serviços à profissão, à universidade e à comunidade em geral. Nosso corpo docente, composto por cerca de vinte e quatro professores, dedica-se à pesquisa e ensino das áreas dos estudos históricos, constantemente cruzando fronteiras cronológicas, geográficas e disciplinares. Nossos cursos combinam temas e métodos inovadores com assuntos e apresentações mais tradicionais. Em suas aulas, estudantes tem a oportunidade de experienciar os melhores e mais recentes textos e pesquisas, de explorar profundamente temas específicos e receber rigoroso treinamento em pesquisa, análise e escrita da história. Palestras, turmas reduzidas e seminários, permitem que os estudantes entrem em contato com professores adjuntos, especialistas em suas áreas e frequentemente lideres e inovadores em seu campo de atuação. O programa de graduação atualmente tem cerca de 150 graduandos e o programa de pós-graduação geralmente recebe entre cinco e seis novos alunos todos anos. Soma-se a isso uma nova inciativa em Engajamento Civil coordenada e dirigida pelo Professor Robin Bachin (Reitor Assistente para Engajamento Civil e Comunitário), para o qual o Escritório de Engajamento Civil e Comunitário recebeu a bolsa Teagle Foundation a fim de integrar o aprendizado experimental mais profundamente no curriculum da área de humanas. Professor Robin Bachin trabalhará conjuntamente com o Departamento de História para promover um aprendizado mais voltado para a comunidade e oportunidades de estágio para os estudantes de história.
Também durante o ano acadêmico de 2011-2012, membros da Faculdade de História publicaram nove livros publicados no total (veja a lista completa de publicações). O livro de Kate Ramsey, The Spirit and the Law (Editora da Universidade de Chicago), ganhou o Prêmio Berkshire 2011 e Don Spivey recebeu o Prêmio Reconhecimento Robert Peterson da Conferência de Línguas Jerry Malloy Negro por seu livro sobre Satchel Paige, “If You Were Only White” (Editora da Universidade de Missouri). Os nosso corpo docente têm sido igualmente bem sucedidos em ganhar bolsas e prêmios. Michael Bernath recebeu o Prêmio Filson da Kentucky Historical Society; Richard Godbeer ganhou a bolsa Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellowship na Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Dominique Reill recebeu uma bolsa de pós-doutorado da ACLS Committee on East European Studies e o Prêmio Rome da American Academy in Rome para o ano letivo de 2012-2013; Guido Ruggiero foi Pesquisador Convidado Senior em Villa I Tatti (Florença) e Acadêmico Americano em Roma; e Ashli White recebeu um bolsa NEH Summer Fellowship e uma bolsa Winter Research Fellowshipdo Instituto Winterthur.
No entanto, honras não foram obtidas apenas pelo nosso corpo docente, nossos graduandos e pós-graduandos também foram muito bem sucedidos em obter reconhecimento acadêmico. Erin Purdy (’14) recebeu uma premiação 2012 Beyond the Book Research Grantdo College of Arts and Sciences. Prêmios e reconhecimento por conquistas acadêmicas também vieram para muitos de nossos alunos de pós-graduação este ano. Jacqueline Grant (Doutorado, 2012) ganhou o Prêmio David J. Ruggiero pela melhor dissertação na Área de Humanas do Center for the Humanities (UM) e o Prêmio 2012 Barret Dissertation do Center for Latin American Studies (UM). Carolyn Zimmerman recebeu a bolsa Fulbright Fellowship 2012-2013 para pesquisa na Itália por sua dissertação “Defeat, Civic Values, and the Intronati of Siena after 1555”. O College of Arts and Sciences premiou Valerie Samet e Amelia Hintzen com bolsas Summer Research para pesquisas nas áreas de suas dissertações na França e na República Dominicana respectivamente. Megan Hatfield será bolsista de dissertação no Center for the Humanities (UM) durante o semestre do outono de 2012. O Departamento também graduou três doutores durante 2011-2012 e recebeu uma promissora classe de novos pós-graduandos para o próximo ano.
PARABÉNS A TODOS!!!
Nosso programa de pós-graduação fornece treinamento de mais alto nível a nossos alunos. Nós estabelecemos excelente relacionamento com muitos outros departamentos e programas na faculdade e na universidade. Nós também mantemos laços estreitos com, por exemplo, o Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Humanities e vários outros programas interdisciplinares, como Women’s and Gender Studies, Urban Studies, African Studies, American Studies e muitos outros. Além disso, nós constantemente trabalhamos em proximidade com a Florida International University, situada também em Miami. Propostas colaborativas com programas de outras universidades e com a Flórida Internacional University incluíram a coordenação de grandes conferências. O Departamento co-patrocina (junto ao American Studies) uma altamente bem sucedida conferência/workshop de três dias sobre Geografias Atlânticas, que acontecerá mais uma vez no início de Maio de 2013 e que atrairá vários jovens e reconhecidos pesquisadores para o campus da Universidade de Miami.
Corpo docente, pós-graduandos e graduandos se beneficiam de nosso importante programa de palestras que convida vários intelectuais pesquisadores para o campus todos os anos para palestras e seminários. Nós temos inúmeras oportunidades para os alunos obterem bolsas de estudos dentro universidade, incluindo University Fellowships, the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Writing Year Fellowship, the Dissertation Fellowships of the Center for the Humanities e, para uma qualificada minoria de alunos, McKnight Fellowships. Muitos de nossos alunos de pós-graduação ganharam bolsas externas, incluindo algumas da Fulbright Foundation, da Conference on Latin American History, do Council on Library and Information Resources/Mellon, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), entre outras. Durante os últimos vários anos, nossos alunos de doutorado assumiram posições acadêmicas em, por exemplo, Iowa State University, Michigan State University, Rowan State University e Connecticut College, Florida A & M, the University of Nevada e Florida International University.
O sistema de bibliotecas da Universidade de Miami e, particularmente, a Richter Library, tem uma grande riqueza de materiais secundários, uma coleção extensa e impressionante de recursos eletrônicos e é o lar de várias Coleções Especiais. Uma das mais importantes Coleções Especiais que possuímos é a Cuban Heritage Collection, contendo um grande leque de materiais para o estudo mais amplo tanto da história de Cuba, quanto da história das Américas. Além disso, o setor de Coleções Especiais também possui uma gama muito maior de recursos acadêmicos, incluindo livros raros, manuscritos, fotografias, mapas, desenhos arquitetônicos, posters, materiais audiovisuais; ao todo temos mais de 3,2 quilômetros lineares de manuscritos e outros materiais arquivados, 100.000 fotografias e 5.000 mapas.
Nós lhe convidamos a explorar nossa página na internet e experimentar a riqueza de oportunidades que podemos oferecer!
