Change is coming indeed. We will have two inaugurations instead of a joint one this year. In a clear break from tradition, protocol and post-election healing, our President has opted to take his oath at Malacañang, while the Vice President takes hers in the Quezon City Reception House or Executive House in New Manila, Quezon City.
The nation is commemorating this year the 150th birth anniversary of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, affording historians a chance to sort out the controversies hounding the first president of Asia’s first republic.
The province of Isabela in Cagayan Valley (Region II) appears to be a very laidback place.
Beyond the iconic Barasoain Church in the bustling Bulacan provincial capital of Malolos are heritage structures and areas that tourists, and even residents, could explore to appreciate the city’s important place in shaping Philippine history.
The assassination of General Antonio Luna in Cabanatuan on June 5, 1899, by Cavite soldiers blindly loyal to President Emilio Aguinaldo, fell like a thunderbolt upon the staff of the revolutionary newspaper “La Independencia.”
Tanghalang Pilipino’s radical musical reimagining of Apolinario Mabini returns Feb. 19-March 13
The original handwritten account of Gregoria de Jesus of the controversial 1897 Tejeros convention in Cavite that resulted in the...
The First Philippine Republic’s 116th anniversary in Malolos shows reliving history can be fun and exciting.
YOUR mantra for the week: “I am free to be me, what a blessing.”
Jose Rizal had class and charisma. He was a renaissance man who dazzled and insulted an archaic Spanish colonial ruler with his liberalism in modern politics. His symbol: a pen that is mightier than the sword.
