Looking Back

Ballots, smoke, and champagne

Cardinal-electors, below 80 years old, three Filipinos included, will be locked up in the Sistine…

Assassination and election fraud in 1935

There is a saying that nobody loses an election in the Philippines because losers always…

Women on the margins of history

Maria Luisa T. Camagay, professor emerita of the University of the Philippines department of history,…

Dia del Libro, Manila

For some years now, Instituto Cervantes de Manila has successfully organized Dia del Libro (Book…

Popes and history

When news of Pope Francis’ serious bout of double pneumonia was made public, the spotlight…

Church vs state

Once upon a time, archbishops of Manila wielded more than spiritual power; they also had…

Excerpt from a draft memoir

Found the draft of a memoir in my files. Rereading the part of my life…

Untapped primary source on WWII 

World War II and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines is not my area of…

Issues of governance

This week, I have been browsing periodicals from 1961, the year of my birth, to…

New history from old maps

During my recent visit to the Netherlands, Philippine Ambassador Eduardo J. Malaya took me to…