Looking Back 15: Martial Law
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...
Looking Back 16: Queridas de Rizal
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....
Looking Back 1: Looking Back
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...
Looking Back 2: Dirty Dancing
“[Ambeth Ocampo] always makes historical figures come alive, blemishes and all, and with his curious eye, make our heroes very human and not the mythic figures that we want to...
Looking Back 3: Death by Garrote
“The cause of history writing owes Ambeth Ocampo a great deal. By his extraordinary use of a relatively new genre, he has rescued history from the cold, forbidding halls of...
Looking Back 4: Chulalongkorn's Elephants
Ambeth Ocampo on the inspiration behind this collection of essays: “Chulalongkorn’s elephants are the bronze elephants the King of Siam gave to Singapore and Java as gifts during his travels...
Looking Back 5: Rizal's Teeth, Bonifacio's Bones
“In this book, besides offering the usual juicy titbits, he looks back not just at our history but also on his life as an historian, this book being written for...
Looking Back 6: Prehistoric Philippines
In these beguiling essays on what lies beyond the fringes of Philippine recorded history–whether pointing out the laughing carabao on the margins of a centuries-old map, or combing for shards...
Looking Back 7: Storm Chasers
History shows that in the end, Filipinos do survive and overcome, but despite the twenty typhoons that ravage parts of the country every year, why are we not better prepared...