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AY! AMBETH SA IMO!What a great title for a podcast and Youtube channel!Thanks to Gideon Lasco for forwarding this to me and th...

AY! AMBETH SA IMO!
What a great title for a podcast and Youtube channel!
Thanks to Gideon Lasco for forwarding this to me and thanks to @jerossaguilar for the suggestion.
I have not jumped on the webinar bandwagon. My online class lectures are still on private on Youtube since last year. Rest assured, I have not been idle and as soon as I level-up in terms of production my lectures be made available to the public.
I was tempted to do a podcast with pumapodcast but realized that part o...

Massacre in Cebu

While history is mainly built on narratives, on established facts, we should also be sensitive to its silences.
My Inquirer column today is on the massacre of the survivors of the Battle of Mactan, in a banquet hosted by Humabon of Cebu. It is often left out of our re-telling of the story of Lapulapu and the Magellan expedition.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/140148/m...

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WHO IS THE GREATEST MOTHER IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY? Now that's one question with many possible answers, with Teodora Alonso a...

WHO IS THE GREATEST MOTHER IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY?
Now that's one question with many possible answers, with Teodora Alonso at the top of the list, but LAUREANA NOVICIO is the name that I tripped upon in my research.
In October 1906, three months after she passed away at age 70, Namacpacan, her birthplace, that is Ilocano for "she who feeds," was renamed Luna, La Union. What did this woman to do deserve this honor, aside from her son being governor of the province? Teodora Alonso was more...

Postscript to Mother's Day 2021.This grainy image from Renacimiento Filipino might have been too gruesome to post yesterday. It...

Postscript to Mother's Day 2021.
This grainy image from Renacimiento Filipino might have been too gruesome to post yesterday. It depicts Teodora Alonso in her home in Binondo embracing the skull of her son, Jose, National Hero of the Philippines. I was told that when people came to visit, she would talk about Rizal, recite the Ultimo adios, or If she was in the mood, open the ornate wooden urn and take out the skull of Rizal. There are other poses for this photograph but this is the clearest I h...

MY OTHER MOTHERS. After my biological mother I was blessed with many other mothers in school, work, and life. Carmen ...

MY OTHER MOTHERS.
After my biological mother I was blessed with many other mothers in school, work, and life.
Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, Gilda Cordero Fernando, Doreen Fernandez, Asuncion Lopez Bantug, and Letty Jimenez Magsanoc (no photo) have left me truly orphaned. They inspired me to write history and to their dying day consistently encouraged me to be the best I can be.
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Happy Mother's Day to those that still have their mother's around to greet and spoil today. My mother passed in 2003 and is but ...

Happy Mother's Day to those that still have their mother's around to greet and spoil today. My mother passed in 2003 and is but a memory. She would have been elegant at 88 today.
Long before coloring apps for old photos came along this 1950's studio portrait of my mother was hand-tinted. Made to pose like one of Fernando Amorsolo's maidens, garbed in Balintawak and holding a palayok.Unfortunately both photographer and studio were ignorant of Amorsolo's iconic backlighting that captured and ...

REGRETS.Many years ago I refused a six-month travel grant to dig up old maps of the Philippines from libraries, archives, and m...

REGRETS.
Many years ago I refused a six-month travel grant to dig up old maps of the Philippines from libraries, archives, and museums abroad, and bring home digital copies of maps that would trump China's so-called "historical claims" over our end of the West Philippine sea. That trip would have been more of a holiday than work because I would actually enjoy the research. It was futile, I thought, because even with an early 14th century Western map of Asia, China could surely produce or forge o...

A dinosaur from the analog generation

Sorry for the late posting. My Inquirer column today on my early years in journalism.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/139992/a...
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Press Freedom Day made me look back on my beginnings, writing in 1985, the tail-end of the Marcos period, for Weekend Magazine, the Sunday supplement of the Philippines Daily Express. We did not have

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WHY ARE THE GREAT LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD HOUSED IN BUILDINGS INSPIRED BY ANCIENT GREEK TEMPLES? Freud asked me ...

WHY ARE THE GREAT LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD HOUSED IN BUILDINGS INSPIRED BY ANCIENT GREEK TEMPLES?
Freud asked me this recently as we both wished the pandemic to end so I can physically visit the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid and look up the rare Filipiniana not available online. And he can just tag along tucked inside my hand luggage. Anyone can hazard a guess and answer the question above?
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Why does textbook history focus on firsts? Depending on the book you are reading, the first newspaper in the Philippines ca...

Why does textbook history focus on firsts?
Depending on the book you are reading, the first newspaper in the Philippines can either be: the 14 page Sucesos Felices (left) a flyer published by Tomas Pinpin in 1637 or [Gazeta] Del Superior Govierno (Gazette of the Higher Government) first published in 1811 by Fernandez Folgueras, Spanish Governor-general of the Philippines. *I don't have a photo of the first issue, what is shown above (right) is an 1812 issue.
My Inquirer column today di...