THE SAGA OF THE PHILIPPINE REFORM MOVEMENT FROM PROVINCIA TO INDEPENDENCIA by Augusto V. de Viana The 19th century forms a…
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School Records of Anastasio J. Pinzón, One of the Signers of the Acta de la Proclamación de Independencia del Pueblo Filipino at the NHCP Serafin D. Quiason Resource Center
By: Reymann L. Guevarra “And holding up this flag of ours, I present it to the gentlemen here assembled, who solemnly swear to recognize and defend it unto the last drop of their blood.”[1] This is an excerpt of the Act of Declaration of Philippine Independence in 1898. At the end of this important document are the signatures of 98 witnesses, one of them was Don Anastasio J. Pinzón. The document was signed on June 12,1898 at the residence of General Emilio Aguinaldo in Cavite-Viejo, now Kawit, Cavite. General Aguinaldo declared Philippine Independence from more than 300 years of Spanish…
THE PHILIPPINE FLAG: SYMBOL OF OUR SOVEREIGNTY AND SOLIDARITY By Carminda R. Arevalo The flag is the country’s most cherished symbol. It…
REMEMBERING THE ZENITH OF TARLAC NATIONALISM: A Tribute to the Valor of Gen. Francisco Makabulos (1871-1922) “Nasira na ang ating magandang ugnayan sa mga…
SOLDIERS OF THE MASSES: NATIONALISTIC STRUGGLE OF HUKBALAHAP by: Quennie Ann J. Palafox The dissident movement which came to be called the Huk Movement was…
THE PETITION OF MARCH 1888 by: Ma. Cielito G. Reyno The anti-war and pro-democracy demonstrations of the 1960s culminating in the unforgettable student-powered First Quarter…
BETRAYAL OF TRUST – THE SAN JUAN DEL MONTE BRIDGE INCIDENT by Quennie Ann J. Palafox Without any single doubt, the Filipino-American…
THE BALMIS MISSION: AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPEDITION by Ma. Cielito G. Reyno On April 15, 1805 the vaccine against smallpox, one of the…
THE TWO FACES OF THE 1872 CAVITE MUTINY By Chris Antonette Piedad-Pugay The 12th of June of every year since 1898 is…
THE GATES TO HEROISM: DEFINING A FILIPINO HERO by Diana A. Galang It is common for Filipinos to look for someone to…
SPEAKER SERGIO OSMENA CARRIES ON THE INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE by Cielo G. Reyno Perhaps it was not a mere quirk of fate that his death…
THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY (1907-1916) It was the inauguration of the First Philippine Assembly in 1907 that paved…
WHEN THE FILIPINO FIRST PROVED HIMSELF TO THE WORLD by Cielo Reyno In May 1884, at the Exposicion Nacional de Bellas Artes held in…