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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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My Inquirer column yesterday on History from Trivia.https://opinion.inquirer.net/165800/i...

My Inquirer column yesterday on History from Trivia.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/165800/i...



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I have been informed that it is an insult to crocodiles when we refer to our corrupt government officials as "buwaya." They are ...

I have been informed that it is an insult to crocodiles when we refer to our corrupt government officials as "buwaya." They are not rapacious as the human kind. When I saw this photo from the prewar magazine Renacimiento Filipino I wished that this becomes the red-plate official car model for corrupt officials. They can be heralded by wang-wang and use the bus lane on EDSA :)



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Forgot to bring Freud to the Philippine BookFestival Davao. Brought home Bibi Mangki the Davao book mascot who now shares shelf ...

Forgot to bring Freud to the Philippine BookFestival Davao. Brought home Bibi Mangki the Davao book mascot who now shares shelf space in my library. Will bring them to the 2025 Frankfurt Bookfair!



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I've received 100,000 reactions to my posts in the past 30 days. Thank you! 🙏🤗🎉 Will appreciate your suggestions for future po...

I've received 100,000 reactions to my posts in the past 30 days.
Thank you! 🙏🤗🎉
Will appreciate your suggestions for future posts. What more do you want to see in future posts.



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