Ambeth R. Ocampo's Blog, page 64

PHOTOBOMBER IN HISTORY. Emilio Aguinaldo photographed in his Biak-na-Bato camp circa 1897. When this image was published th...

PHOTOBOMBER IN HISTORY.
Emilio Aguinaldo photographed in his Biak-na-Bato camp circa 1897. When this image was published the nameless "photobomber" in the back was cropped out.
The same curation applies in history. No historian can be completely objective. Every historian is subjective because he must choose, from his research, what to include/exclude from his narrative. A narrative always based on Fact and Truth, those that deliberately do otherwise propagate fake news.



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Before National Bookstore, there was the National Panciteria Hotel on Escolta.Photos of the city before the 1945 Battle for Man...

Before National Bookstore, there was the National Panciteria Hotel on Escolta.
Photos of the city before the 1945 Battle for Manila provide me with hours and hours of fun as I try to read the names of restaurants, stores, and other commercial establishments off signs and buildings.



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Mighty Magulang: Cabinet of Curiosities

Meow! Meow!!
Thanks to Mona better known on TikTok as Mighty Magulang for recommending Cabinet of Curiosities.
Glad she was not bored :)



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Juan Luna's mortal remains now lie in niche 73 in the San Agustin Church crypt (Left). According to the eminent modern arc...

Juan Luna's mortal remains now lie in niche 73 in the San Agustin Church crypt (Left).
According to the eminent modern architect, Antonio S. Sindiong, the bones of Juan Luna used to be kept in a pail under the bed of his son Andres Luna. I used to think Architect Sindiong was making this up until I found a news clipping from 1953 on the transfer of Luna's remains from the pail (Right) to the San Agustin Crypt done by Luna's daughter-in-law Grace Luna de San Pedro.



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Speaking before engaged young people is my way of making sure that some day the present will stop reading like the past. Thanks ...

Speaking before engaged young people is my way of making sure that some day the present will stop reading like the past. Thanks to the Ateneo English Department for thinking me worthy of providing “enrichment” to their purposive communications classes.



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Pilgrimage in Tokyo, Fall 2023.When in Tokyo, Freud and I always drop by Hibiya Park to visit the historical markers for Jose R...

Pilgrimage in Tokyo, Fall 2023.
When in Tokyo, Freud and I always drop by Hibiya Park to visit the historical markers for Jose Rizal (Top) and Elpidio Quirino (Bottom). On this pilgrimage we were joined by the feisty Manila Times columnist Maribel Ongpin.
This time we skipped the nearby Godzilla statue because it wasn't on our route to the supermarket.
Godzilla Rizal and Quirino are near the Peninsula and Imperial hotels. Hibiya metro station



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Mixing the 19th and 20thCenturires in the National Museum of Western Art Tokyo. Auguste Rodin sculpture and n a jewel box of a b...

Mixing the 19th and 20thCenturires in the National Museum of Western Art Tokyo. Auguste Rodin sculpture and n a jewel box of a building designed by Le Corbusier.



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Souvenirs from yesterday’s sold out Eras Lecture @Ayala Museum. See you next Saturday October 21 for a lecture on Juan Luna.

Souvenirs from yesterday’s sold out Eras Lecture @Ayala Museum. See you next Saturday October 21 for a lecture on Juan Luna.



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If you think history is boring, you had a bad teacher.If you think history is about memorizing facts, you do not realize how su...

If you think history is boring, you had a bad teacher.
If you think history is about memorizing facts, you do not realize how subversive history can be.
Thanks to the Rizal Library for their patience with my extended closing remarks at their library congress this morning.


ATM: Ambeth Ocampo, Historian from the Ateneo de Manila University gave the closing remarks on the last day of the Rizal Library International Conference.

“Librarians are guardians and propagators of truth.”

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My column today on Binondo as oldest Chinatown in the world, and 16 pages of references to historical documents on the Chinese i...

My column today on Binondo as oldest Chinatown in the world, and 16 pages of references to historical documents on the Chinese in the Philippines in the 55 volume "Philippine Islands" compiled by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/167104/b...



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