Kalayaan: The Road to Our Independence
It's that time of year again where Pilipino communities in the Philippines and the diaspora come together and celebrate our Independence Day through parades and festivities. Unfortunately I was not able to a... Read More...
Photos & Newspaper Clippings from the Philippine-American War
From when they first put their flag on our soil and declared the colonization of our islands and people, to them bringing American teachers known as the Thomasites to set up schools as part of their imperialis... Read More...
The Philippine-American War : President Theodore Roosevelt’s thoughts and comments on the American atrocities toward the Filipino’s & the Water Cure Torture.
May 30, 1902: President Theodore Roosevelt addresses a vast Memorial Day crowd at Arlington Cemetery before assembled veterans and journalists. In his “indignant” spe... Read More...
The Philippine-American War: The Concentration Camps in the Philippines.
One of the things and events not taught in history books and what has been sadly forgotten and neglected are the concentration camps in the Philippines created by the U.S. Major General J. Franklin B... Read More...
Benevolent Assimilation and the 1899 Philippine-American War
By Helen C. Toribio Three years before Private Willie Grayson shot the first bullet that began the Philippine-American War, a New York news magazine editorial depicted the Filipino as a diminutive black sav... Read More...