Looking Back

I have been teaching Rizal and Philippine history at the college and sometimes graduate level…

It is unfortunate that late president Manuel Luis Quezon has been reduced to a meme…

In my mind’s eye, I see it clearly, the first day I entered a classroom…

I teach a required college freshman course called “Readings in Philippine History.” When the course…

Yesterday, July 31, the feast of St. Ignatius Loyola, I read up for a column…

Revolutionary Gen. Artemio Ricarte fought in two revolutionary periods, first during the Philippine Revolution against…

It literally rained on Apolinario Mabini’s parade last Wednesday. Heavy rain and resulting floods led…

When you ask Filipinos what typhoons they remember, the most devastating and recent ones come…

Growing up, when I saw balut and penoy on the kitchen table, I knew that…

Textbook history drills us into remembering people and events relevant to the development of the…