Nasugbu Right after World War II
Late in January 1945, the United States 8 th Army landed on the beaches of Nasugbu virtually unopposed , making the town the first in Batan...
Late in January 1945, the United States 8 th Army landed on the beaches of Nasugbu virtually unopposed , making the town the first in Batan...
Not just Batangueños, but many Filipinos will agree that all sorts of strange and obscure beliefs and superstitions come out of the closet w...
On the eastern outskirts of the City of Lipa in Batangas, close to the shared border between Batangas and what is presently Quezon Province,...
In the present day, with Lipa City having overtaken Batangas City as the province’s most populous geopolitical unit 1 , and swathes of erstw...
Most readers will recall from secondary History textbooks that Batangas was the last province to drop its resistance to United States forces...
From the so-called “historical data 1 ” for the barrio of Muzon 2 nd in the town of Alitagtag, Batangas, we hear of this forgotten legendar...
Soon after the Japanese attack on the United States naval facility in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941, “able-bodied citizens and res...
This page contains the testimony of Soledad Lacson of Santo Tomas, Batangas on atrocities committed by the Japanese in the town in 1945. Th...
In a much earlier article, Batangas History already featured the capture and looting of the then-town of Lipa 1 in 1900 by forces of the Un...
From a memorandum 1 dated 6 March 1946 written by one 1 st Lieutenant Patricio M. Abu, addressed to the Chief of the United States Armed F...
Bauan, late February 1945. It had been a month since the United States 8 th Army had landed virtually unopposed in Nasugbu to support the ...
In 1754, the seat of the provincial government or the capital of Batangas was in the municipality of Taal. Not the present location of Taal...
By March 1945, Allied liberation forces led by the United States Army had left their coop in Nasugbu, where the 8 th Army had landed late i...
This page contains the testimony of Segundo Gube of Lipa, Batangas on a visit of Japanese General Masatoshi Fujishige with Lipa Mayor Domina...
This page contains the testimony of Gabriela M. Luz of Lipa, Batangas on the atrocities committed by the Japanese in Barrio Sulok, Santo Tom...
This page contains the testimony of Felix Javier of Santo Tomas, Batangas on the atrocities committed by the Japanese in the town in 1945. ...
This page contains the testimony of Cipriano Rodelas of Lipa, Batangas on the atrocities committed by the Japanese in the town in 1945. The...
This page contains the testimony of Eusebio Linatoc of Lipa, Batangas on the so-called Pamintahan Massacre committed by the Japanese in the ...
This page contains the testimony of Victor Manguiat of Lipa, Batangas on atrocities committed by the Japanese in the town in 1945. The page...
This page contains the testimony of Pamfilo Umali of Lipa, Batangas on atrocities committed by the Japanese in the town in 1945. The pages ...
This page contains the testimony of Ricardo A. Castillo of Santo Tomas, Batangas on atrocities committed by the Japanese in the town in 1945...
This page contains the testimony of Felicidad Austria of Santo Tomas, Batangas on atrocities committed by the Japanese in the town in 1945. ...
This page contains the testimony of Leoncio Tolentino of Santo Tomas, Batangas on atrocities committed by the Japanese in the town in 1945. ...
Filed away at the National Library of the Philippines are so-called “historical data” for the different towns across the Philippines. These...
Even in the present day, one still hears once in a while stories of people who had gone on treks up Mount Makiling in the Province of Laguna...
There are many folkloric stories about the Holy Cross, patron of the towns of Alitagtag and Bauan, the former incidentally once part of the ...
This page contains the testimony of Briccio Mabiling of Lipa, Batangas on atrocities committed by the Japanese in the town in 1945. The pag...
According to one Claudia M. Cruz in an ethnographic paper 1 submitted to the University of the Philippines in 1930, a religious drama calle...
In the present day, the Municipality of Cuenca in Batangas has developed a reputation for being the “Home of the Bakers,” and the town itsel...
Mention the word baraco and most people in the Philippines immediately think of Batangas, the province with which the liberica species of c...
In the present day, each year a competition is held to select teams and athletes who will represent Region IV-A in the national games called...
In July 1902, the United States Congress passed the so-called Philippine Organic Act, which was the basic law for the Insular Government of ...
Although, in the present day, the waters of Taal Lake have become completely freshwater, this was not always the case. The lake used to be ...
From an ethnographic paper entitled “Folklore from Lipa, Batangas 1 ,” written by one Amparo Reyes, we extract this otherwise forgotten folk...
Erstwhile “confidential records 1 ” of Philippine Commonwealth President Manual L. Quezon’s conferences with the press in 1936 showed how hi...
In the early days of the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines, as the indios or native Filipinos converted to Christianity, many such na...
In 1944, probably in anticipation of the subsequent landing of the United States 8 th Army early the following year, the Hunters/ROTC Guerr...
The December 1898 Treaty of Paris formally ended the Spanish-American War; and as the defeated nation, Spain officially “relinquished all cl...
Although Corazon Aquino was swept to power by the hugely popular “ People Power Revolution ” in 1986, her presidency – which lasted until 19...
From the 1950s document “History and Cultural Life of the People of Malvar, Batangas 1 ,” we get this obscure little legend about the origin...
From an ethnographic paper 1 written by one Amparo Reyes, presumably from the then-town of Lipa in Batangas, we get this folkloric story ab...
This article concludes the series we have been running on Batangas History regarding how the United States Army and Volunteers operated in t...
From the 1953 document entitled “Historical Data of the Municipality of Nasugbu 1 ,” Batangas History presents this historical narrative on ...
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