My Inquirer column today is on primary source material on the Philippines that I worked on recently at the University of Michiga...

My Inquirer column today is on primary source material on the Philippines that I worked on recently at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Reading some of the accounts made my blood pressure rise because of unfair descriptions of the Philippines and the Filipinos made a century ago that would be grossly politically incorrect today. History teaches us to generate light not heat and the skillful historian can tease truth even from a biased source. We can't change the past so instead of...