Looking Back

A taste of Mexico

Last Wednesday, Daniel Hernandez, the ambassador of Mexico to the Philippines, arranged a most memorable…

Flashback: Luna assassination

Sentiment is one of the hurdles to our understanding of Philippine history. It is set…

Educating mind and heart

When in Dapitan, I always drop by the Rizal Shrine to look out on a…

Using Caloy: Celebratory or predatory?

A Filipino book historian would probably know how many copies of Jose Rizal’s novels have…

When did history become ‘kasaysayan’?

When I did K-12 in the last century, the commemoration of the national language only…

Ped Xing and Zhao Rugua

Cruising down Roxas Boulevard some years ago, my publisher pointed to a yellow street sign…

Typhoons: The future of history

All is calm as I write this column; the sunshine breaking through overcast skies. Wind…

DepEd cheat sheet

A friend recently sent me a 63-item “cheat sheet” posted on “DepEd Teachers’ Channel” on…

Dark chamber of the president

One of the challenges of teaching a freshman course on Philippine history through primary sources…

Reading history

Do pharmacists take a course on reading prescriptions? Physicians are said to have the worst…