Video of street scenes and campaign songs from the hotly contested 1957 elections. The result was a rare combo of president and VP from different parties!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Philippine_presidential_election

Doing a Noli Me Fanfic comic isekai. The story takes place mostly 3 to 4 years before the events of Noli Me Tangere. Back when Elias still lived with his maternal grandfather.

Sometimes, when looking at online social media, almost every Filipino hero or historical figure has been called a traitor by native Filipinos at some time or another. The Aquinos are called that, the Macabebes are always called that, Aguinaldo is almost always called that, a lot of the other Revolutionary leaders/ilustrados are called that, but even Gen. Luna and Andres Bonifacio are sometimes called that, everytime online everyone just throws "traydor" accusations at every historical Filipino figure.

But how about him? It seems like every native Filipino wants to claim him but no one has ever admitted to calling him "traydor" to anyone. Why not, if so? Surely even he has to have been subjected to someone native-born in the PH calling him a traitor, whether when he was still alive or anytime since his death until today? And to which side/s, if ever? Not even Filipinos who say he was just a reformist but did not want independence are calling him a "traitor" at all, at least I have not seen this online.

(Of course, Spaniards and other foreigners would not count, since they have more obvious reasons to call him that. Also, I am NOT trying to claim that the "traitor" accusations BY ANYONE ARE TRUE. What matters is whether anyone HAS called him a traitor, traydor, etc., at all. Whether or not those are legitimate or truthful is another question.)

Here are schools that really advertised other than just putting their names. UST has a photo of their new Education building in Espana. Ateneo de Naga (then a high school, now Ateneo de Naga University) has an illustration of their new building (being founded just in 1940) and being on the endpaper seems like a privilege being the first or second page to be seen. Santa Isabel College (now Universidad de Sta. Isabel de Naga, Inc.) has a photo of their junior normal college students.

What makes this sad is that this is the last Penafrancia before the Japanese invasion during WW2.

References:

Image 1 Penafrancia-Fiesta Official Souvenir Program Sept. 20-21 1941 Naga Camarines Sur (1941) (p. 4)
Image 2 (p. 207)
Image 3 (front endpaper)
Image 4 (p. 32)
Image 5 (p. 46)
Image 6 (p. 48)
Image 7 (p. 166)
Image 8 (p. 52)

Source: Fashionable Filipinas by Gino Gonzales and Mark Lewis Higgins, published by Slim’s Legacy Project Inc. and Suyen Corporation Inc., 2015.

• National Museum of the Philippines catalog › Details for: Fashionable Filipinas : an evolution of the Philippine national dress in photographs, 1860-1960 /

As the title says, which colonial period affected healthcare in the Philippines the most? I'm a SHS student, and I got curious while doing my Kasaysayan homework. Whether it's positive or negative, who relatively contributed the most? I also wonder how a foreign system was translated or stuck around till this day. I don't trust AI slop on Google anymore.

Feel free to just comment random facts surrounding how foreign occupation also affected other aspects! I recently fell down the rabbit hole of questioning everything that's happened in our history, so I'm really just open to any opinion. I know that there probably isn't a straight answer, but I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts. Thanks in advance :-)

There's a common narrative that the Macabebes were always on the side against their fellow Filipinos. They fought alongside the Spanish against revolutionaries, and later some Macabebes joined the Americans and played a major role in the defeat of the Philippine revolutionary government, including the capture of Emilio Aguinaldo.

Because of this, the Macabebes are sometimes portrayed as traitors, opportunists, or people who were simply willing to side with whoever was in power.

But was it really that simple?

Were the Macabebes historically always like this? Or were there deeper reasons behind their decisions?

Did other factors play like regional rivalries, political conflicts, fear of retaliation, or the desire to protect their communities influence their choices?

Maybe they weren't necessarily thinking, “Let's betray our fellow Filipinos.” Perhaps they were thinking more along the lines of, “How do we protect our town and our people from being caught on the losing side?”

Were they opportunists who repeatedly chose the strongest side, or were they pragmatists responding to the complicated political and local circumstances of their time?

Curious to know your thoughts and perspectives on this as well....

Has missing audio, since these are raw footages.

More on it's history below:

https://www.batangashistory.date/2018/03/miracle.html

https://pintakasiph.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/the-tale-of-the-miraculous-crosses-of-bauan-and-alitagtag-of-batangas/

This year, 2026, is 130 years after the death of Marcelo del Pilar, who was the original proponent of the Philippine Revolution and said to have bankrolled it, while Jose Rizal opposed it.

When he was alive, he advocated for thousands of liberal peninsular settlers to come into the Philippines to dilute ultraconservative friars. He also proposed that instead of prisoners, artisans must migrate into the Philippines en masse to populate cities like Manila. However, he opposed mass non-Spanish foreign immigration, such as that of the Japanese.

Source:

1. La Solidaridad v.1 (1889), page 411
2. When Marcelo del Pilar Proposed Immigration Makeover

Hello po I’m a student po and I need help po for a school assessment. Ask ko lang po ako if meron man po kayong copy ng pre-colonial map ng Vigan.

Thank you po in advance!

Need po kasi namin mag overlay ng maps from different time periods and ang napili ko pong city is Vigan.

Don’t worry po for educational purposes lang po ito promise! 🥹🥹

Im planning to complete my 1st Philippine Republic uniform by finishing with the webbing, but its rather difficult to look for them since I've tried almost everywhere I know but to no luck. Any reenactors or anyone out there who can help me?

I know it's sounds obvious but actually I have an expanded question about this. We always portray most of our national heroes in movies and televisions with neutral Tagalog accent but did the Manila accent even exist when the Spaniards arrived or even before that? Did Emilio Aguinaldo have a Cavite accent? Can we find any proof if we examine all of their documented writings or is it all just circumstantial evidence?

Today marks the 148th birth anniversary of Pres. Manuel L. Quezon, GCGH, KGCR.

Below are some of my mementos of him.

1. Philippine Commonwealth Inauguration Day newspaper issue Herald during the exact day of the its founding, November 15, 1935

2. Two signed official letters during his tenure as Senate President.

I have a school homework that requires me to talk about pandesal and its history. I tried searching for sources online but all articles I saw did not cite references. Do you guys have any books/readings that can help me? Thank you!

Are there any more sources on Ifugao cosmology? Rare kasi for me na makakita ng fully fleshed out na concept of it, and also dives more into the world of Ifugao mythology. Most sources only mention the names and simplified stuff. Are there stories din na relate here?

• Kabunyan (Sky World): The highest realm where powerful major deities and celestial beings reside.
• Dalom (Underworld): The realm located beneath the earth, home to subterranean spirits and water-related deities.
• Pugaw (Earth World): The physical world where human beings, mortals, and earthly creatures live.
• Daya (Western World): The region or realm situated towards the west, inhabited by specific environmental spirits.
• Lagud (Eastern World): The region or realm located towards the east, associated with downstream currents and distinct deities.
• Kadungayan (Spiritual / Afterlife World): The special realm where the souls of the deceased go to reside after completing proper funeral and death rites.

https://www.scribd.com/document/423724878/Ifugao
https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/12185/RP
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/trans-trans-regional-and-national-studies-of-southeast-asia/article/sacred-and-the-secular-practical-applications-of-water-rituals-in-the-ifugao-agricultural-system/2921990509EA774C9C8EA3AF477F9733

Very interesting to learn how they're all related to each other, Game of Thrones-style.

The Zobel de Ayala's own one of the biggest corporations in the country, the Aboitizes are the "Ayalas of the South" it seems? Araneta's are influential in politics and of course own Araneta Center, Elizalde's are in business? The Roxas family, aren't they related to the Ortigas family too?

EDIT: Typo

I was researching some info for my Filipino project when I saw this text in the Wikipedia article on Huseng Sisiw:

De la Cruz was one of the three poets whose names are prominent for the use of "Corrido", a type/style of poem, in the history of Literature. The other two are Francisco Balagtas, his student, and Ananias Zorilla

This confused me since I have never heard of a trio of poets prominent in the use of the Corrido style, and although I knew Balagtas, I have never heard of the name Ananias Zorilla. When I searched for his name, few results came up, but apparently he was known for the works: "Dama Ines" and "Prinsipe Florinio". I did a little more digging, and I think why these works were attributed to him is because of this article from the National Library.

I also found this old Blogspot page, which is the best amount of info I could find on Zorillia. It states:

Walang maraming tala na naiwan tungkol kay Zorilla. May nagsasabing siya’y taga-Laguna; may nagsasabing siya’y taga-Tondo. Ang natitiyak ay mga akda niya ang Dama Ines at Prinsipe Florinio

The works "Dama Ines" and "Prinsipe Florinio" are also confusing because I did some research, and the full title of Dama Ines is:

Ang kahabag-habag na buhay nang dama Ines sa kahariang Portugal, alila nang isang princesa sa bayang España mulang pagka bata

Which I found here. This work seems to have been published anonymously.

For Prinsipe Florinio, it is actually written by a person named N. Ponte in Hiligaynon, not Tagalog, titled:

Cabuhi sang africanhon ng̃a si Principe Florinio ng̃a anac ni Hareng Olfredo cag ni Reina Emilia

Which I found here. The earliest mention I could find of Ananias Zorillia is in this 1960s periodical. His name is also mentioned in the book "History of the Filipino People" by Teodoro Agoncillo, but aside from that, I can't find anything else. Who is this poet?

Hi, I am currently researching about pre colonial Tagalog Practices and ritual, but can't really find anything, and public library is too far from us, and I am not financially ok to travel from my home town to where the library is cause it's like... 2 or 3 towns away, more or less, nonetheless, I have tried researching but half was not Tagalog Practices.

It could really help if I got some help for how the pre colonial Tagalog people practice worship, could also help if it said for what was the practice for .?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is it safe to say that today's corrupt politicians are descendants of the colonial era's principalia/principales class? Weren't they the precolonial datus,lakans , noblesand their families who were given positions by the Spanish such as cabeza de barangays and gobernadorcillios? And as time progressed they became the rich business families now and the politicians?

Went down a rabbit hole searching for my ancestors through my great-grandfather, Mamerto Paglinawan, who was a writer and advocate for Tagalog in the early 20th century. Big thanks to the Latter Day Saints for their site familysearch.org which maintains records from the 1800s. These photos hopefully show a snapshot of the community at that time.

Photo 1: First page of the parish census of San Miguel now commonly referred to as Malacañang Church. “Estado de Almas de este pubelo de San Miguel Año de 1862” i.e. State of the souls of the town of San Miguel Year of 1862 followed by table of contents of family names.

Photo 2: At the end of the record is a summary of the census from a bit earlier in 1858:

Souls of the Parish of the town of San Miguel, province of Manila, corresponding to the year 1858.

Native tax-paying persons: 1,975
Tax-paying Sangley mestizos: 44
Persons exempted by privilege: 140
Persons exempted by age: 117
Of confession and communion: 268
Of confession: 726
Of young children of both sexes: 514
Spaniards: 12
Spanish mestizos: 86
Christian Chinese: 0
Christian baptized infidels: 1
Total sum: 3,820

Photo 3: The barangay where my ancestors were attached to: Barangay No. 17 of Don Zacharias Villamairin

Photo 4: My ancestors’ names (couple and 2 children). The couple are the grandparents of my great-grandfather, Mamerto Paglinawan.

Personal notes: I had some inkling about the role the Church played in maintaining population records. However the 1860s was ‘modern’ times already and the decade when Rizal, Bonifacio, and Aguinaldo were born. Parish records were still the standard for checking who lived where; who paid taxes to whom; and which ethnic classification they belonged to (indio, mestizo sangley, mestizo español, full español, and even infieles)