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Review: War & Dissent, The U.S. in the Philippines, 1898-1915

By ⋅ November 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Presidio Officers Club, San Francisco. October 22, 2008-February 22, 2009.
The Presidio of San Francisco is currently exhibiting a collection of photographs and artifacts related to Philippine-American War of 1899-1902. The years covered are the textbook periods most American historians subscribe to. It also chronicles the rise of the Presidio as the key military base for […]

Barack Obama and the Filipino Diaspora

By ⋅ November 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

There was a time, when the Filipino dreamed of becoming  president of the United States. As an American colonial for three decades (1899-1945) his social and political aspirations were a mirror of the American mind. The Filipinos were fed with American ideals of equality, industry, civic-mindedness by an American inspired educational system with the hopeful […]

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