When the Trinidad, Victoria and Concepcion anchored off Leyte island in 1521, the destiny of the Malay/Austronesian peoples inhabiting a chain of more than 7,000 islands was to be forever changed. The ...

A study finds successive waves of human migration to the Philippine Islands. The Philippine Islands are situated at a crossroads of human migration, yet the history of the population and colonization ...

When President George W. Bush wore the barong Tagalog, the native formal Filipino shirt, during his recent state visit to the Philippines, he perhaps unintentionally carried forward a family tradition ...

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Using archival documents, this article analyzes two types of negotiations involving land in Laguna province. The first deals with donations ...

The Philippines, a Southeast Asian archipelago of more than 7,000 islands, is like Latin American countries a former colony in the Spanish Empire. The Philippines was under Spanish rule for three ...

Thumbnail credit: @big.lumpia via TikTok, @kaygandausa via TikTok, @trish_bautista via TikTok, @the.brown.psych via Instagram Filipino creators on TikTok are addressing the inclination of many ...

An upcoming film set in the Philippines’ pre-colonial period has cast Danny Trejo as the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The film, “1521,” is set to depict the events leading up to the ...