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Active in Paris in the 1980s, Lolita Danse was a collective of ten artists who reject­ed all hierarchy and fixed forms. They fused dance, music, lighting, and costumes in a...

History is more complex than our textbooks make it out to be. History is not about memorizing ‘facts’ or reacting emotionally, but being critical of facts and various narratives. In...

1898 reminds us that it is one thing to gain independence and quite another to know what to do with that independence. 7 x 5 inches / 100 pages

Textbook history didn’t teach me much about World War II, the Japanese were portrayed as evil, but not as bad as the Spanish who shot Rizal. From this viewpoint the...

A short Tagalog poem written by a young lady from San Roque, Cavite in 1898 described first-hand the war waged by Emilio Aguinaldo against the Spaniards. She said the gunfire...

A history of food is fascinating not so much because of the scents, colors, and flavors of food but the way in which food shapes people and how people shape...

Ambeth Ocampo's Martial Law, the 15th book in his Looking Back series, is a compilation of essays that draws from the diaries of Ferdinand Marcos and other primary sources during the...

Ambeth Ocampo's Queridas de Rizal, the 16th book in his Looking Back series, is a compilation of essays on the life and loves of the Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal....

Hindsight is the lowest form of intelligence–except for historians. In this handy collection of Ambeth Ocampo’s “Looking Back” column pieces, the popular historian digs deep and looks back carefully at...