History shows how human beings, helpless against an epidemic, adapt in time and survive,” wrote Ambeth R. Ocampo in his...
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With deliberate golden strokes, artist Taipan Lucero proudly brings an ancient script back to life, in the hope of promoting an endangered but contentious part of the Philippines' heritage.
KUALA LUMPUR — How many people around the world start their mornings with a cup of coffee – or three? But did you know that this much-loved beverage has courted its fair share of conflict and controversy in history?
The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) has recently opened a museum honoring Mariano Ponce in Baliuag, Bulacan.
This year marks the sesquicentennial of the birth of Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the Philippine revolution in 1896 and president of Asia’s first democratic republic in 1898.
Completed in 1869, the church of San Joaquin town in Iloilo province, touted to be the country’s most militaristic due to the bas relief on its pediment depicting the Battle of Tetuan in Morocco in 1859 to 1860, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year.
People who consider books on the history of the Philippines as dry amalgamations of dates and names amid unadorned pages that require rote memorization, may have a heart attack when they behold a volume like Filipino historian Jose Raymund Canoy’s “An Illustrated History of the Philippines,” the colorful 2018 paperback volume from John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd.
