What are our children learning about martial law from their history class? Selective memory might make the older generation remember martial law for its most enduring effects on them, but today's youngsters get their glimpse of that era in recommended doses through their Araling Panlipunan textbook. The subject is taught to high school freshmen during the fourth quarter of the schoolyear.
Where else in the whole Philippines can you find a red carpet running down to the driveway? Obviously, only in...
A statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees is on display in the former Warsaw Ghetto, the place where so many Jews were killed or sent to their deaths by Hitler's regime, and it is provoking mixed reactions.
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.
In Cavite on May 10, 1897, Andres Bonifacio, founder of the Katipunan and our second greatest hero, met a cruel, painful death at the hands of Emilio Aguinaldo’s Magdalo partisans. Also killed were his brothers Procopio and Ciriaco.
In what seems to be a typical Philippine northern village of modern concrete houses lies a secret that dates back to the Spanish colonial period.
The University of Santo Tomas will launch the two-volume “A History of the University of Santo Tomas: Four Centuries of Higher Education in the Philippines (1611-2011)” by the highly respected Spanish Dominican historian Fr. Fidel Villarroel, OP, on Jan. 24, 6 p.m., at the UST Miguel de Benavides Central Library.
It is not known by the average Christian Filipino that many practices and teachings of Christianity originated from paganism.
PARIS — The floral scents wafted into the 19th-century Parisian courtyard Friday outside the launch of famed French perfumer Fragonard’s...
HERITAGE conservation advocates have condemned the demolition of the postwar Coca-Cola plant on Otis Street (now Mendoza Guazon) in Paco,...
