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My Inquirer column today on a lot of untapped Philippine history lies in the U.S. Presidential Libraries, something that we shou...

My Inquirer column today on a lot of untapped Philippine history lies in the U.S. Presidential Libraries, something that we should also have in Manila or elsewhere for each of our former presidents.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/166091/u...



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Although I first visited the Library of Congress in 2000 and again in 2019, I never thought of requesting one of the first books...

Although I first visited the Library of Congress in 2000 and again in 2019, I never thought of requesting one of the first books published in the Philippines.
The 1593 Doctrina Cristiana was used in evangelization and has text in Latin and translations in Roman alphabet and baybayin. One could say it is the Rosetta Stone of the Philippines that helped us decode the pre-Spanish syllabary.
It is a unique copy, the only one in the universe and has been made available online by the Library of Congr...

New book for 2023 Manila International Book Fair thanks to Anvil and the National Book Development Board - Philippines

New book for 2023 Manila International Book Fair thanks to Anvil and the National Book Development Board - Philippines



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For those who are in DC. I will be speaking at the Philippine Embassy on Thursday September 7@ 6pm. Free and open to the Public....

For those who are in DC. I will be speaking at the Philippine Embassy on Thursday September 7@ 6pm. Free and open to the Public. Thanks to NCCA Sentro Rizal for coordinating


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If you happen to be in Washington DC on Thursday evening, I'm giving a talk at the Philippine Embassy co-sponsired by NCCA Sentr...

If you happen to be in Washington DC on Thursday evening, I'm giving a talk at the Philippine Embassy co-sponsired by NCCA Sentro Rizal. On Friday I will be speaking at the National Portrait Gallery Symposium on the 1898 Imperial Visions and Revisions show.



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Ongoing at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. is "1898 U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions." The section on the Phi...

Ongoing at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. is "1898 U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions."
The section on the Philippines and the Philippine-American War has a glass case (center) with a Krag Jorgensen rifle and a kris from Mindanao. On the walls are important loans from Manila: Juan Luna's portrait of Jose Rizal (Gutierrez Collection), Fabian de la Rosa's portrait of Apolinario Mabini (National Library Collection), and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo's portrait of Felipe Agoncillo (Na...

Guess where Freud is today?

Guess where Freud is today?



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My Inquirer column today on archival research being like Time Travel for the historian.https://opinion.inquirer.net/165978/news...

My Inquirer column today on archival research being like Time Travel for the historian.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/165978/n...



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CAPTION THIS.Is a new type of ungraded quiz I thought up while researching in the Bentley Historical Library, University of Mic...

CAPTION THIS.
Is a new type of ungraded quiz I thought up while researching in the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor the other day. Please leave your most creative answers as a comment.
Photo appeared in the May 5, 1934 Philippines Free Press. Can you identify the people in the picture? Location? Event when this was taken? Fill in the Talk Bubble :)



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Freud and I back in the Bentley Historical Library University at Michigan Ann Arbor going over newspaper clippings from 1934 on ...

Freud and I back in the Bentley Historical Library University at Michigan Ann Arbor going over newspaper clippings from 1934 on the term of Frank Murphy as US Governor General



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